Really? The fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists of UKIP would have just shrugged their shoulders and said “Oh well, that’s that.”
So 52% of the electorate are UKIP members? Hmmm.
The EU is 28 counties, trading freely without any restrictions. If they were 28 separate countries, you would have 28 separate trade laws, 28 separate legal systems to deal with, 28 separate governments to deal with. As a manufacturing business for example, if you wished to trade with all, you might need 28 different versions of your product to pass 28 different safety standards. You also need 28 separate trade deals.
That's looking at it from a Remain "shoot down Brexit" point of view. The point is, some things about the EU are good - trade agreements across the membership for instance. Some not so good - the Franco/German dictatorship that says we must have this much migration, must accept these many immigrants from outside (and look how Merkel fucked that up. You said yourself you want Scottish independence so at least your mistakes will be your own - not going to be the case within the EU though, is it?
), must standardise all laws, must eventually become a single super state etc. Personally, I think the EU should ONLY be about trade, as it once was supposed to be. Or rather, I fail to see why independent nations can't work out advantageous systems together on other things too, where it benefits all - security in the face of modern threats for instance. Cooperation yes, Brussels sovereignty? Fuck off! The only thing that gets in the way of such cooperation is self-interested politicians.
It is not just fundamentally stupid to leave the EU, not to mention doing so after investing 40 years building it, but incredibly selfish.
It's not just the UK that is being selfish, and never mind EU protectionism in the face of Brexit.
Look at Germany's behaviour towards Greece - bribery and corruption to force Greece to buy German arms, tanks etc, which kind of behaviour largely contributed to the Greek economic collapse in the first place.
And if we leave, the UK will suffer economically.
Perhaps. Perhaps not. You can't prove one way or the other. Even the top economic heads say they don't know for sure - how could they, when a deal has yet to be worked out? I know we're not there yet, but your lot were predicting economic meltdown as the immediate aftermath of the referendum, and that hasn't happened. Sure, we've lost in some ways, but we've gained in others, and I suspect that will be the true result of Brexit when we look back on it in years to come. The EU will have its own problems, as will everywhere else. The ones who will lose face are the current sensationalists, like yourself. You should relax about it more. Have another spliff!
Oh, wait, you can't - as a political animal, you think spliffs are bad, very, very
baaad! But don’t forget that the Jacob Rees Moggs etc of the Tory party would like nothing more than to the see the ordinary people of this country down on their knees begging for their next fucking meal. These people intend to become even richer and even more powerful through BREXIT.
All politicians intend to become richer and even more powerful off the back of whatever happens, Brexit or Remain, Labour or Tory, or SNP for that matter. And that certainly goes for the politicians of the EU, with their own corporate connections and interests.