Please try to understand; it's very important. Every trade agreement we make costs us sovereignty. You want a publicly owned NHS? Too bad. It's on the negotiating table when we deal with the Americans. In secret.

EU directives around human rights, environmental protection or animal welfare are not trade agreements.

They are effectively terms of a trade agreement. Goods traded in the EU have to meet standards.

The cost of leaving the EU is money well spent.

To what end? Nothing is better. Many things are worse. Is there any payoff at all?

This just seems absurd to me. I see no such increases.

Exhibit A: The Rwanda scheme.

you want less corruption, less cruelty, more respect for human rights, and you're happy to give up degrees of democracy in order to have that.

I simply don't believe we will have "more democracy" outside the EU. We elected our MEPs. We do not elect our trade negotiators, nor those with whom they negotiate. In terms of democracy, we're swapping a pittance for nothing. So I'll take the reduced cruelty and corruption, the human rights, and the pittance of democracy please.

So much focus on democracy. Yet when a significant portion of your population (Scotland) wants to vote to leave the UK (partly so they can stay in the EU) you don't even let them.

Sounds like cherry picking democracy is no longer an issue.