Trev_GFC - 24/6/2016 18:20
I'm trying to understand the Brexit vote. I know a lot of people voted on one issue, and it's not down to ignorance. It's because we simply weren't informed well enough of what the EU is and does. It's a lot of pacts and directives relating to everything. Some good, some not so good. Instead we were fed scaremongering from both sides, figures plucked from nowhere, and forced to think that the EU has no influence other than immigration or free trade. Even the televised debates were formed of a bunch of chickens with different shit stains on them clucking the same clucks. Of course people will vote on the one or two issues dragged out to death by them.
I can completely understand people voting simply due to immigration if they solely disagree with the level of immigration (particularly settling in Kent) and that we have our hands tied when deporting them. Any other reason and you need to admit that you're a twat.
The one thing I just don't get is the classic "we fought the Germans during the war and now we're surrendering to them" - please can someone explain this. Is complying with the request to put money together to help bail out Greece for the safety of the whole of the EU surrendering to them? Or taking in a fraction of the immigrants making their way from Syria? Both times providing a fraction of what Germany were offering? Or is this part of Germany's plan to create the 4th Reich? Surely I'm missing something here?
Anyone who mentions benefits street in their reasons for Brexit don't deserve to be taken seriously.
Cutting foreign aid - a touchy one. With our EU membership fee at least there's accountability where it goes. Otherwise, what's the guarantee any of the money saved from leaving the EU will go to the right causes here? Remember the story of the man who told his mate "I never smoke. You know, with the money you save you could buy a Ferrari" only to get the response "Well where's your Ferrari?".
In general I can't put a finger on why but in recent years I've become far more liberal. Ridiculous to think a few general elections ago I was as ignorant as f..
In this country we have been banging on about immigration for as long as I can remember, we have been tolerant and patient and rode our time, waited and waited, been promised changes and still our local communities and areas have been gradually changing. I suppose it finally started to take hold in the North and they had a slightly lower tolerance threshold than us down South. The EU didn't pay attention because
it doesn't have that ability (fatal flaw).
Somebody who says.. The EU is about alot of pacts and directives relating to everything in one sentence, then states it not down to ignorance really is just having a laugh, then some other nonsense.
The Brexit vote is and always was a left wing vote. It's about the real people in this country who want something such as a better life, the Proletariat.
The bourgeoisie run everything, finally the Prols have discovered a way to disrupt and hopefully get something from the Bourgeoisie. It's the same story as all the others as well as very short memories.
What you have to decide is which one are you?
It's about demographics, politics and ideals. Understanding where you are from, how you perceive your area to be and how you envisage you, your area and your leaders to be in future. It's also about how you see other parts of your country in relation to this.
16.8+Million people are telling you something, they are happy to let this argument loose,
happy to have the divison and discord.