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Teresa Villiars was on the Emma Barnet show this morning and repeated the line about the first rule of negotiating being to say you are prepared to walk away. Twenty years ago I advertised a rather unusual car for sale and a man from near Lincoln (coincidentally) came down to Sussex to look at...

"Thick as mince, lazy as a toad and vain as Narcissus.” And that's just his own side talking.

If Farage asked me to design some publicity material for him I wouldn't quote him a high price, I'd refuse to even look at it. You say that that would make me a dick. Don't run away - justify it.

Ah, the old 'we're the only true patriots' line. Saw it most energetically advanced in Parliament Square last October as a gang of flag-waving camera-wielding Brexiteers screamed Traitorous Bitch and worse in Anna Soubry's face. If I didn't feel so strongly about my county I wouldn't feel so...

The best hope for our own grandchildren involves the EU nationalities of two of their other grandparents - the situation is not as cut and dried as it might be but a positive outcome is not out of the question. A longer shot involves having a stake in a part of the United Kingdom that may one...

We used to sit behind him at Withdean, so for two decades he really has been part of the Albion scenery for us. What a tribute this thread is proving to be.

To summarise then... I don't know if you have children but assuming you do your position is that you just can't be arsed to go through a simple process that would help give your descendants the right to study, work, retire and live as citizens of Europe in addition to having the benefits, as...

Same bloke who said you couldn't have freeports in the EU? (Anyway, I'm reminded of that Two Ronnies newscast sketch. "Today in the Channel a ship carrying blue paint collided with a ship carrying red paint. Fifty sailors have been marooned.")

If you genuinely believe that the ability of your fellow countrymen, and I think particularly of your descendants and mine, to study, work, retire and live as citizens of a united, free, varied, beautiful and cultured land stretching from close to the arctic circle to the edge of Africa will not...

Cameron and May promoted their 'tens of thousands' immigration target in the sure knowledge that it was unachievable as long as we were members of the EU. The pledge was made simply to feed the Conservative's backbench trolls and their Fleet Street publicists.

Or the problem is that too many people are obsessed with what class people are apparently in.

No one is denying that there are some conditions - regarding employment, for example, or criminal activities - that EU members can apply to new arrivals. However, I can't recall anyone claiming that the UK could control immigration numbers when a member of the EU, which was clearly what JCFG was...

Indeed, as you and perhaps others pointed out there were unused levers to manage some elements in the activities of new arrivals. But JCFG was talking about the 'control of immigration', a vastly wider concept.

Excellent. Can you give us an estimate - plus/minus one will be OK - of the actual number of posters who have been telling you that we always 'had control' of EU immigration? If at the same time you could finally deal with Watford's repeated requests for you to say what you think of Johnson's...

You're all whistling in the wind I'm afraid. The fortunes of competent multilingual EU nationals in Britain's hospitality sector is of even less interest to committed Brexiteers than the freedom of young Britons to study, work, live and retire across the most varied, beautiful and culturally...

I don't think there is an answer to this question. I'm in a similar situation - I buy new and keep for at least ten years. 2009 Skoda Fabia, 130,000 miles, going as perfectly as it always has. The only thing that has ever gone wrong was the driver's side window and if I'd got it fixed (last...

I suspect that the aim is not to do a deal by the end of the year but to create a PR narrative that, by failing to agree to Britain's (impossible) timetable, the EU is proving yet again that it hates plucky little Britain. This will lead to an upsurge of support for Boris Spencer Johnson and...

You go on and on and on about people being rude to you but you were very happy not long ago to get the wrong end of the stick about a post, ignore a simple explanation* and excitedly call the poster a lying bullshitter before disappearing for a while, presumably tut-tut-tutting furiously as you...

I can't make a lot of sense of this I'm afraid. All trade deals/arrangements are 'protectionist' in the sense that. by definition. they offer their signatories better trading conditions than are given to others. As you suggest, we are drawing a line under the biggest trade deal we have ever...

Hear hear. The people who grate with me are those who loudly proclaim their huge flag-waving patriotism and then reveal that they don't give a fig for our glorious language. As someone with a poor education but a lifelong love of England's language I agree with everything you say. (Apart...