This is what the BBC thinks Battling Dave has achieved..

Child benefits? Erm no. We can only index link this from 2020. If the EU doesn't dismiss this policy before then. Dave had to drop this proposal in order to get what is laughingly being called  a 'deal'.

Migrant Welfare Payments: The Emergency Brake can only be applied in exceptional circumstances - and who decides what exceptional circumstances are? Erm the EU. So we don't decide when we can apply this brake. Even if we're driving off a cliff. And one would imagine that Frau Merkel's idea of migrant 'emergency' is somewhat different to ours.

Eurozone: We can keep the pound? And pray tell me how this was going to be different before this deal? Anyone who thinks we'd be forced to give up the pound - and more importantly that we'd just meekly go along with this - without this deal, should seek help. And we'll be reimbursed for bailing out EZ countries? Good luck with that. The EU billed us £2billion last year, completely out of the blue, because our economy was doing well - and included our black market and the sex trade in its spurious calculations even though they cannot effectively be measured - by definition, der.

Protection for the city of London: Which is the world's leading financial centre. It would simply ignore EU legislation:- it is regulated internationally, it is a global industry; it does not fall under the remit of the EU or even the UK government to any great extent. So what is the achievement here? And how will protecting the banks who rip-off everyone they touch be seen as a great deal for the UK people?

Sovereignty: The EU could not force us to be part of 'ever closer union' before this deal. The deal gives us absolutely no powers back. There is no repatriation of powers to UK parliament in this deal. Dave will suggest that he's saved us from being forced to speak German by next Thursday - utter nonsense. Effectively what our opt out does is it means we have got off the train, its direction has not been changed in any way, we now have no influence whatsoever over its destination, but we're continuing to pay for the journey.

Red Card for national parliaments: Given that the EU has rejected every single amendment to EU proposals tabled by the UK since 1994 this is a non-event. In order to play our red card we'd have to secure support from 15 other nations for our view. Erm tell me, when has this ever happened in the past. And, in any case, is this special 'deal' really suggesting that if 55% of EU countries currently reject an EU policy that it (the EU) can just carry on regardless? If so that's an even more monstrous rejection of democracy than even I though the EU capable of..

Competitiveness: Meaningless words that appear in almost every EU statement of this kind and has resulted in the square root of fuck all actually being done to achieve this goal. Ask young people in southern Europe where unemployment rates are above 50% about this. There is no content, no solid proposal, not 'action required' in this banal bullshit.

Some limits on free movement? Even the pro-EU BBC is hesitant on this one. Because in practice we continue to have to allow criminals into the UK as part of the EU free movement programme and we cannot seem to deport anyone without years if not decades of legal appeals etc. And without controlling our own borders, how can we possibly stop criminals or terrorists from coming in? This is also meaningless.

And that's it. Battling Dave's deal.

And it has yet to be ratified by the EU.

A much more effective way of achieving all of the above as well as taking back our sovereignty, having the people we vote for (and can vote out) making our laws and controlling our own borders properly instead of trying to become as mean and nasty towards incomers (which is just a stupid and non-British policy) in order to deter them; is to leave. To have the courage of our own convictions, a belief in our own capabilities and ability to run our own affairs and to be able to trade with the whole world rather than just the small-minded, protectionist EU.

And if you think our departure would result in the imposition of trade barriers or a loss of UK jobs, consider this: The UK is the EU's biggest customer in the world. We have a trade deficit with the EU (2014) of £61.6 billion in their favour. There are £61.6 billion worth more jobs relying on trade with the UK in the Eurozone than there are in the UK. If you really think they would jeopardise this by imposing trade barriers in the event of #brexit then I'm not sure economics is the right career path for you.

Do we want to be the world's fifth largest economy, trading with the world including countries with whom we have excellent relationships - like China, India, the Commonwealth and Europe, or do we want to have a shrinking 8.4% share (and almost zero influence) within the world's only shrinking and failing trading bloc?

Time to decide. Time, in my opinion, to get the hell out and watch the EU fall apart under the weight of its own monstrous mismanagement of this doomed United States of Europe project that seeks to make the whole of Europe a single place. In Germany's image.

Thanks for reading.