17 years after the Suez Crisis, Britain joined the EU. It took the Australian Prime Minister of the time, Robert "Pig Iron Bob" Menzies that before he went to sign a trade treaty with Japan. This was the same dopey bastard who, in 1937, contracted to sell 300,000 tons of scrap pig iron to Japan after it invaded China! Then, in 1952, he said, in parliament, "Keep them down!"

Geographically, it made more sense for Britain to trade with the EU, than what it did to trade with a country 20,000kms away in a different hemisphere.

Tone The Botty, a former Australian joke of a leader, now the President of the Board of Trade, claimed that Britain shouldn't worry about crashing out of the EU without a deal, has been proven to be an even bigger joke!