Steve, have you ever interrogated your own assumptions. Do you ask yourself how or if the UK has greater significance or influence as an EU member. I'd be interested to hear what you mean by that, how you define it.
I suppose that, given 5 years of frantic predictions, beginning with the pre-referendum Treasury modelling (that was almost uniformly wrong) through all the to-ing and fro-ing that has taken place since, you are guaranteed to find something that slots in with your particular set of prejudices. Even given that, I suspect there's no small amount of rewriting of history taking place.
OK, but when it boils down to it, you're no different from everyone else here in that you're basically running out the slightly tiring platitude that the EU isn't perfect, but when it boils down to the nitty-gritty, we find that the EU can do no wrong. I hear no questioning of the EU's blindly stupid and completely unnecessary maximalist interpretation of the NIP from you, just the standard, brain-dead 'the UK wrote it/agreed to it/signed it, so the UK must implement it' line.
In the meantime, the first firebomb has been pulled out from under a young PSNI mother's car. It was fixed just beneath the child seat.