Johnny I have no doubt that you and Born to Harangue voted for reasons more complex and detailed. Most people didn't.
Most people are not politically astute. Even more so, ironically,.in this social media age where everything is seemingly just an echo chamber.
Thw thing is what have you actually voted for? Noone has come up with any answers
What it “looks like” is what it looks like in every nation in the world except the EU 27.
It’s easy to be lulled into the illusion that the EU is the way the world is, when it is a trading bloc, now mutating, without even having the common decency to ask its citizens, into a political union. It is the exception, not the rule.
The UK will be able to make and apply its own laws, build trade agreements with whomever it chooses, and know that the British Prime Minister and government run the country and also that its judicial system is the final arbiter of our law. Far from being a curious arcane system that is the way every other nation state operates except those within the EU.
As you can imagine, I have little in common politically with the late Tony Benn but remember his five tests of democracy:
WHAT POWER HAVE YOU GOT?
WHERE DID YOU GET IT FROM?
IN WHOSE INTERESTS DO YOU EXERCISE IT?
TO WHOM ARE YOU ACCOUNTABLE?
HOW CAN WE GET RID OF YOU?
The EU Commission fails at least three of those points.
Look, if the EU had been a startling success then perhaps Id have been more likely to give it another go, but look at the problems facing it. The Greeks are still looking down the back of the sofa to pay their immense loans, the Italian banks are clinging on by a thread, the Poles, Czechs, Hungarians and Slovaks are threatened with legal action by Brussels over migration, in Germany Merkel is supported by a third of her nation and is struggling to form a coalition. Youth unemployment in the southern nations is an immense problem, and now it looks like even little Malta is a mafia state run by scumbags.
What I’m saying is this: the EU and Europe are different entities. Europe is a wonderful continent. Nobody in their right mind would wander around Prague or Vienna or Lisbon or Seville and hate it. It’s a lot harder to like the EU, and particularly the Commission. They have political ambitions far beyond anything the population has been told or even asked for.
