One more remark: Switzerland and Norway are not in the EU, but they still have some of the best economies in the world. After all, the EU was created only in response to Hitler trying to take over the continent. Hitler has been dead for over 71 years now and now it is the EU trying to take over all of Europe and make the continent into a single nation. Their lenient immigration measures has led to a lot of violence spilling into Europe in the last few years. It is the same with Trump being elected in the US. It is not that people are against immigration, it is just that it has gotten out of control and people have had enough. Sorry, but we have borders for a reason. Allowing just anybody in always leads to danger.
Happy New Year to you too BTW

1. Yes, it's one of my many failings.
2. Short answer: I think it's likely to cause a lot of unnecessary and avoidable short-term social and economic upheaval with no real long-term benefit to the country, at least none that is apparent at this point. Just my view: 52% of the country disagrees with me. I'm cool with that.
3. I quite agree. I'm a positively sprightly 44.
4. No argument here either.
5. No, I just made a flippant remark, which is another of my many failings. (I mean, a flippant remark on the
   internet
   of all places, what is the world coming to?!) It was, after all, a similarly flippant remark likening Basil to a Brexit voter that brought us to this juncture. Believe me, I'm face-palming as I type
   Anyway, let's get back to discussing Fawlty Towers. And Happy New Year.
   Make tea, not war.

Well indeed, although the majority of under-35s - at least those who could be bothered to vote - voted to remain in the EU, whereas older people (who are always more likely to vote in any case) tended to vote leave. Brexit is still seen as very much a middle-aged/elderly thing. The wrinkly revolution.

1. Are you British by any chance?
2. What is so wrong with leaving the EU?
3. 35-39 is NOT oldespecially these days it is very young.
4. Well a lot of younger people didn't bother to vote. If enough of them cared they would have voted. Many younger people haven't experienced the real world as much as older people either, which is why many of them tend to vote for more left wing things. Promises of being taken care of is attractive to people with less experience with the world.
5. You're an ageist. It is largely seen as an elderly thing (or should I say "wrinkly thing" according to you) because of the media.

Well indeed, although the majority of under-35s - at least those who could be bothered to vote - voted to remain in the EU, whereas older people (who are always more likely to vote in any case) tended to vote leave. Brexit is still seen as very much a middle-aged/elderly thing. The wrinkly revolution.
Make tea, not war.

Well it had been around since the 70s so it isn't like anything new. Many Brexit voters who weren't even alive in the 70s voted to leave the EU.

Well, there was the referendum in 1975, which ratified the decision to join the EEC (as it was then). And the 2016 referendum effectively un-ratified it, which at least makes things nicely symmetrical.
Make tea, not war.

A bit like the average Brexit voter, really
Britain had been in the EU since 1973 and Britain really never had a vote on it to begin with.

the problems with the anniversary wasn't even his fault! that stupid roger was obnoxious! as was that nurse friend!
Oh God. Fortune
vomits
on my eiderdown once more.

I felt quite sorry for him in "The Anniversary" - the one time we see him try to do something genuinely nice for Sybil, and he still manages to screw it up.
I think there is a certain degree of pathos in Basil's character, as he's really just a man out of his time; you sometimes get the feeling that there's a decent man in there trying to get out, but he is just overwhelmed with the changing values of the modern world. Society is quickly changing around him, and he just can't incorporate these changes into his archaic world-view. A bit like the average Brexit voter, really
Make tea, not war.