ItsInTheSpoon It’s really hard not to be rude about people who voted to rip away my European rights, our economic health and my children’s future freedoms as citizens of a United Kingdom in the EU.
I don’t want us to be a Singapore-style economy servicing global dodgy dealers, led by far right free marketeers hoping to win the race for the bottom. I like being part of a European trading bloc and we’ll soon see what we actually got, in exchange for what we paid into EU.
I don’t mind that we pooled our sovereignty with 27 friendly countries. We didn’t lose our sovereignty, we deployed it constructively and profitably for our country, whilst preserving peace between us and encouraging liberal democracies in lots of other countries. Look at Latvia, Lithuania and Latvia...as well as Poland, east Germany, Romania and Bulgaria. These are not places that drain our economy. I’m proud of the part our country and the EU has played in transforming those countries and for people to be able to fulfill their potential in a climate of freedom and increased opportunity.
Oh and all those awfulregulations? They’ve brought us environmental standards, cleaner air, cleaner beaches, better animal welfare standards, better employment laws, food labelling and confidence that all EU stuff we import has the same, decent standards for animals, for hygiene and for the environment.
In all this we have had an active, democratic role...helping write the rules through the Parliament, the Commission and the Council of ministers.
So yeah, I’m feeling pretty enraged that we have thrown it all away, with the promise of....what? An undeliverable and dishonest mess.
Other than that, I have no problem with it.