Because it was sensible and knew that it had to have it's economy in it's own hands.
Nobody who has the faintest grasp of economics thinks Brexit is in the UK’s best interests. Literally all the analysis now is focused on what kind of Brexit is going to be the least damaging. There will be no Brexit boom. Sorry to disappoint you.
Also, in case it’s escaped your notice, the EU is full of countries with widely differing economies. Now there may well be an argument that countries as economically different as, say the Netherlands and Greece should not be sharing a currency. But since they do, and they are both in the EU, and yet their economic setup is so different, it’s obvious that a country’s economic circumstances are determined by a much wider range of factors than whether they are in the EU/the euro or not.
You also keep using the example of Italy - a country you clearly don’t know much about - to justify Brexit, when (and this may come as a shock to you) Italy and the UK are not the same country.
Did you miss the Liberals being involved in Government for 4 years, how did you manage that?
Bit hard for me to miss since I worked for the government at the time.
The Lib Dems did a good job holding the Tories back from some of their more dangerous policies. Unfortunately they were inexperienced in government - due to the above mentioned system which ensured they never got a look in before - and underrepresented considering the number of votes they actually got. (There were around five times as many Lib Dem voters per Lib Dem MP as there were Tory voters per Tory MP.) This meant that the Tories ran rings around them, particularly in relation to tuition fees. They were sadly punished at the ballot box for going into coalition with the Tories because the electorate does not understand how coalitions actually work (again, due to the above mentioned rigged and unrepresentative system).
Is this why you're turning your back on democracy and embracing the EU? Your butthurt because Labour and the Tories always win?
This makes no sense.
Yes, I am unhappy with a so-called “democratic system” in which my fairly mainstream views are entirely unrepresented. I would like more democracy, not less. I find the EU more democratic than the UK. And the UK is getting less democratic by the day.
Evidence:
- After a referendum in which the vote was almost evenly split between leave and remain (and some of the people most affected by the decision were not allowed to vote at all) the government seems to be pursuing the hardest, most extreme version of Brexit possible.
- Theresa May tried to trigger Article 50 without the consent of parliament and when our legal system did its job and told her she had to go through the correct constitutional channels, the pro Brexit press branded our most senior judges “enemies of the people” and the government stood by and let it happen.
- Theresa May called a general election because she said she needed a stronger mandate for the Brexit strategy she wanted to pursue. She lost her majority and is now behaving as though she thinks she won a thumping one.
- Labour, the Lib Dems, the SNP and essentially all other small parties can be ignored, except the DUP, who most people probably hadn’t heard of his time last year, and who have the power to collapse the government if they don’t approve of what Theresa May is doing.
- The majority of Labour MPs and Labour voters are pro remain, but Jeremy Corbyn is a Brexiter who keeps whipping his MPs to vote with the government so there is no effective opposition.
- Legislative amendments proposed by the House of Lords are being essentially ignored.
- There is a growing body of evidence showing that the referendum was subject to interference by foreign governments with the aid of companies like Cambridge Analytica, and that the leave campaign breached all kinds of electoral rules. But no consequences. Not even a word on this from the government.
Would you like me to continue, or will that suffice?