Last week’s poll: Customs Union

Like the referendum, the turnout was high (845 respondents) and the result was close. Unlike the referendum, we did provide a third option for that all important vote in the form of ‘neither of the above’ (16 per cent).

Of the remaining 84 per cent, 43 per cent agreed to negotiating a new treaty replicating the Customs Union, and 41 per cent who opted to leave it.

Comments on the poll have been dominated by those wanting out of the EU and the Customs Union that comes with membership of it, prompting AnActualEngineer to ask: “Is this the Engineer or a UKIP/Daily Mailer Readers forum? Most of the previous commentators clearly have no idea how the EU works, no knowledge of international trade, or of the actual workings of the UK economy.”

Mohammed Abdullah queried whether The Engineer is the right forum for a debate on Brexit, a view backed up by MickM who said: “I sincerely hope that The Engineer…[is] not using a public platform to stoke up discontent with the result of a democratic process with which they may not agree.”