It will be patently obvious to anyone reading through this thread, (not that I imagine anyone would!), that in the absence of any evidence to support an economic case for leaving the EU, there must be some other reason.
As there is no no cultural advantage in leaving, no strategic or military advantage, no trade or employment benefit, then it has to be something else.
I said a long, long time ago that 'Brexit' was motivated primarily by racism and the arrogance and stupidity of a misguided section of the British public stirred up by fascist politicians who lied through their teeth to the public, ably supported by the right-wing media.
Recent contributions to the thread have only reinforced my view. It matters little though as, increasingly, the likelihood of the UK ever exiting the EU diminishes with every passing day, if any of the major news organs are to be believed. The appetite for 'Brexit' no longer appeals to large numbers of those who voted to leave which reduces that camp to a hardcore of unlikely bedfellows comprised of racists, rent-a-mob anarchists and fascists.
Tom
I think the accusation of widespread "racism" is too extreme, and that what in fact motivated people was a feeling of insecurity for the future and being abused by politicians they disliked and let down by those they had trusted,
Undoubtedly there has been a generation long campaign to make the EU a scapegoat for Government failures and pretend that in some way things would have been better in a fictional ideal world where there was no outside parties to limit the power of Parliament, which despite this so called EUSSR influence has still managed to wage war (sometimes as a private venture) setting vast numbers of refugees on the journey here.
And with no sense of irony whatever Blamed that on the EU!
At the same time reducing swathes of the population to poverty and producing a fiction of "Full employment" at the same time.
A masterful manipulation of the Public perception of where the enemy lies if ever there was one.
With constant propaganda that the blame for the malaise gripping the country being laid at the door of the EU on a daily basis by the press, it is no surprise the way the Referendum vote went, as I have said previously, I expected an even bigger majority for leaving.
This is not really a criticism of the Public, merely cause and effect at work.
They never checked to see where the truth lay, but then they never expected to have to do so, Nor should they have had to!
Just why a large group of Politicians promoted this break with the EU is the question that is hard to grasp, they obviously are working in someone's interests, and towards some goal.
Who's interests?
Who's Goal?
It must be a very compelling impulse to take such an obviously huge risk with our futures, not theirs, as you can be sure they will profit somehow.
Is a cowed, subservient and financially desperate workforce the future for the Public of this country?
It certainly looks that way
