it is not a red herring. Self reliance for example could well be extrapolated to a smaller government, less taxes on workers. Small businesses' worries about regulations can be extrapolated to excessive EU bureaucracy. Self rule is translated to take back control. These are some of the legitimate concerns of millions of tory voters.
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You are simply compounding your fundamental error by regurgitating the same claptrap about tax being the 'key question for 'Brexit'.'
Tax never was an issue with the electorate in the campaign about 'Brexit' although there were many others. For you to go further by stating that,
Remainers have to make their own case for more taxes, more regulation, a higher court than the courts of this land.
is just sheer nonsense. You seem to wish to erroneously mix internal British politics with the issue of the EU as you see fit, even to the extent of justifying your amazingly inaccurate description of the situation in regard to taxes.
Some of us remember the inequity of the various planks of government revenue generation long before the days of VAT, for example. Poll tax is probably the best-remembered example of an ill-conceived tax and was the source of much cohesion between various levels of society. It caused many millions to protest and forced the government of the day to rethink their plan. Had there been tax issues severe enough to engender that kind of public reaction at the time the matter of 'Brexit' caused the government to agree to a referendum, we would all have known about it.
The onus necessarily falls on those who campaigned for 'Brexit' to assuage any fears held by the population - not on 'Remainers'.
Tom