TBH the UK in the single market is a better outcome for the UK as well as the EU. It puts something like reins on our frequently out-of-control government and leaves one powerful neoliberal voice out of the shouting match.

You’re kidding. It’d be an astonishing political victory.

You don’t understand correctly. There are a bunch of requirements which (were they not waived, which there’s a nonzero chance they might be) are little more than establishing aspirations - adopting the Euro is one of those.

I think you’re trying to handwave at someone who knows more about the steganographic watermarking approach than you do.

I had a small X.25 network as combination coffee-table and space-heater at one point; this was before most homes had internet. It almost cost me a divorce.