BREXIT WHY — AND WHERE NOW?

Here we are after four and a half long years, out of the EU and with little good to show for it.

I had for many years been anti the EU for a lot of reasons, many of which still exist today — but I never wanted it to cease to exist nor for the UK to stop being a member. What I did want was for it and its democratic credentials to be improved, updated, and for us, the people to feel that we had far more knowledge about its workings as well as influence over the way it worked and its decision making process. To “take back control!”

But we were not asked what we wanted in the 2016 referendum, just a binary question: “Do you want to Leave or Remain?”. Just a yes or no answer was required to an extraordinarily complex matter; and of itself an insult to the electorate in expecting us to believe that that was all there was to it. That was the only decision required from us — then we had to just sit back and leave everything to more important people i.e. politicians!

The question was never a valid one. It was like a man falling off a cliff and having grabbed hold of a branch to stop himself from crashing onto the rocks below, someone asking him: “Do you want me to shoot you to end your suffering or shall I just leave you where you are?” So I voted for him to shoot me — while thinking “Nah — he’ll never do that it’s ridiculous”

But he did! And here we are effectively “Dead in the Water”

Those voting leave like myself, were mislead because we expected leaving the EU would…