LAST week’s EU celebrations of Europe Day contrasted with the UK’s steadily growing recognition that Brexit has broken Britain. The Tory government shelved the ill-considered “bonfire” of EU laws, derided by SNP MP Alyn Smith as “a damn silly thing done in a damn silly way”.

Boris Johnson supporters are still demanding it, even though facts show that Brexit has crashed into reality.

Nigel Farage himself admitted on BBC’s Newsnight on Monday that “Brexit has failed”.

Poland will be more affluent than the UK by 2030. Spain’s inflation rate has halved. Ireland, benefiting from the single market, became the EU’s second richest country. The Bank of England’s response to the UK’s stalled economy? “Britons need to accept they’re poorer.”

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East Lothian residents facing rising prices for food, energy and fuel, with nearly 5,000 households relying on foodbanks, might well ask “poorer than what?”

Poorer than before England and Wales dragged Scotland out of the EU. Every Scottish region voted remain, distrusting Michael Gove’s catastrophically wrong prediction: “The day after we vote to leave, we hold all the cards and we can choose the path we want”.

Labour and Tories cling hopelessly to making Brexit work, yet the toxic demonising of migrants and asylum seekers – a main driver of Brexit – still has no rational and humane migration plan.

Home Secretary Braverman admits that “illegal migration is out of control” but doesn’t accept responsibility for a Tory government taking Britain out of the EU, with only wild promises that are seen to have failed.

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Six years later, the gigantic Brexit con trick is devastating Scottish business, North Berwick’s award-winning Osteria restaurant being the latest local victim of ending EU freedom of movement (Courier, May 11).

The illegal migration bill was judged “politically impractical and morally unacceptable” by the same archbishop who crowned the King. Abhorrent public order legislation was rushed through to protect the coronation but undermines basic freedoms to protest. Labour won’t repeal such damaging Tory legislation, nor negotiate the UK back into the EU.

Previous Scottish Labour leader Wendy Alexander stated in a report that UK immigration policy is affecting Scotland’s ability to attract overseas talent – Brexit isn’t working.

Scotland needs its own immigration policy.

If East Lothian voters want to get out of a calamitous mess Scotland didn’t vote for, more Brexit certainly isn’t the way.