No one is trying to sell you anything, you never struck me as delusional.
I've said all along that it will be tough at first but it will improve, that's why it should have been a hard exit then there wouldn't have been uncertainty.
Ww1 ... Help required
Not sure the wars are relevant but we hung in there with the help of commonwealth soldiers, the US arrived late.
Ww2 ... Help (and huge loans) required.
Yes but do not forget it was Britain who gave Hitler his first defeat, it was also Britain that supplied Russia via the merchant convoys that enabled them to carry on fighting, I'm very proud of our country and commonwealth contribution.
Oil crisis... The uk came to a grinding halt followed by the decline of traditional British industries, inefficient production, high inflation, industrial disputes.
And we survived.
Financial crisis 2008... Help (and many loans) required. Record unemployment, record inflation, record overseas debts, still being paid off. The uk is still not out of that hole despite the many reassurances from government.
Brexit... You are on your own.
Good.
Who is going to turn down a market of 700 million to pander to the whims of less than 1/10th of that market?