God there isn't arf some bollx spouted on here! The number of tactical genii makes you wonder why more of them haven't made a fortune touting their knowledge as coaches around the world!
Take your point about the ridiculous name calling, but surely there was nothing in the vote that disallowed dissenting argument. To me that what democracy is all about. After all the referendum was borne out of opposition of the status quo.
Curiosity got the better of me, so I looked it up on Strava and Streetmap. Looks like a spiteful little beast. Ideal training for your Belgian sorties? Staffs version of the Koppenberg!
In 1950, Britain's investment in industry and infrastructure was only 9 per cent of GDP, in West Germany it was 19. Not sure there's a political point to be made here, either. Tories would have done the same.
A far as I am aware the German's received around half the amount of Marshall Aid between 1948-51 that the UK received. Indeed we were the biggest recipient of any country. They chose to invest in industrial reconstruction whilst successive governments including Atlee's squandered that money on trying to maintain the pre-war imperial status-quo.