The isolated island! Schengen NOW!

Arriving back in UK from European mainland as depressing as ever. Infrastructure appalling. Ridiculous petty border controls which make it harder for us Europeans to get into own country than it would be if we had flown from Iraq or Syria. There is. I sensible reason why the UK should not be party to the Schengen free movement agreement although it is not going to  happen any time in the current climate of xenophobia. Immigration is about settlement in a country, not punishing everybody who lands here or passes through. Fly between any other Europe countries - including Norway, Switzerland and Iceland (those darlings of the Europhobes) and there are no stony faced officials or electronic cameras, gathering pentabytes of unusable information. The UK has become a security state to rival anything the Stasi ever dreamt of.