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Does anyone else find themselves getting more sympathetic to the other side

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whydidhesaythat · 11/07/2016 20:59

I don't know if this is just another stage in the cycle of grief but I'm starting to feel that:

Those of us who were doing very nicely out of Europe thank you ignored those who didn't

EU money can go into buildings but that's not the same thing as helping people

People outside the urban centres felt the EU was just another siphon of power away from them

London patronises the regions

Not everyone got to go on a gap year to a European country so why should they be bothered about my kids having one?

There actually is a non racist anti immigration argument

I'm not saying any of this right, it may just be another reaction....but does anyone else find themselves empathising with the other side more than they did?

OP posts:
KJJDMB · 18/07/2016 17:19

Underpart mummy agreed I shouldn't have said all farmers. However all farmers I know - quite a lot- voted to leave

Winterbiscuit · 18/07/2016 17:45

whatwouldrondo whereas mums never encounter ketchup stains or have little time to research evidence? Grin

I understand Churchill played a role in the formation of European links. But why does hardly anyone mention the other Presidents of Honour, or the American Committee on United Europe (whose vice chairman was head of the CIA) which put millions of dollars put into the European Movement and European Youth Campaign? It provided 53.5 per cent of the European movement's funds in 1958. The aim of the ACUE was to counter communism by promoting political unity in Europe.

caroldecker · 18/07/2016 19:19

Churchill was very in favour of a united Europe, but not with Britain as part of it. He saw an alliance of the USA, Europe and the British Empire against communism in Russia and China.

UnderTheGreenwoodTree · 19/07/2016 00:21

Churchill was a fervent royalist, was he not?

I'll just have to take the stance of

"Typical" Wink Grin

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