I know there's an online petition to have another referendum [like Brexit] but I think honestly I think if people want to go for it a little further down the line it would be a hiding for nothing.

Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become mainstream, can we make any predictions about what the next move will be?

If I was a Greek citizen I'd be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people.

In Britain, what we've done is say to 485 million people, 'You can all come, every one of you. You're unemployed? You've got a criminal record? Please come. You've got 19 children? Please come.' We've lost any sense of perspective on this.

It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.

It's the FSA and its plethora of EU bodies that's failed.

When an Occupy demo in the centre of Frankfurt makes world news, I shall hurry to join in.