Leaving the EU isn't LIKE saying "fuck you, we don't need you" is IS saying "fuck you, we don't need you"
Of course, it is nothing of the sort....
It is saying, "Nothing personal, but we prefer to be sovereign over our own country"
There's absolutely
nothing about Brexit that mandates or indicates any sort of hostile relationship with countries that choose to remain in the EU...
the very group you will depend on most for security.
Wow...
Uhh, no, the group primarily responsible for European security isn't called the European Union...
It's called the North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
Perhaps you've heard of it...it was in all the papers...
From what I've been reading those leading the Remain campaign, (Cameron and others) are not even
attempting to sell this to the public on the idea that the "deal" that was struck (the deal terms are such a joke, you'd think Obama had negociated it) is some sort wonderful new arrangement that does a lot to protect Britain's interests...They are smart enough realize
that would be so ridiculous that no one would take them seriously....they'd have zero credibility...
No, the centerpiece of the Remain campaign is to appeal to defeatism and fear. Basically saying, "Well this may not be a great deal, but there all sorts of ominous economic consequences that will befall the country if we leave, so we have no choice but to accept it".
But this is a rubbish argument, for two reasons.
First, whatever incentives that EU countries have to trade with Britain, and Britain to trade with those countries don't magically disappear when Britain leaves the EU. In fact, being freed from all the many rules and regulations imposed by the EU will most likely make British goods
more attractive not less. The US is obviously not an EU member and we have excellent trade relations and do enormous business with the member countries. There's not a reason in the world that the UK couldn't do the same.
And second, the UK is a net contributor to the EU by a significant amount:
The UK pays more into the EU budget than it gets back.
In 2015 the UK government paid £13 billion to the EU budget, and EU spending on the UK was £4.5 billion. So the UK’s ‘net contribution’ was estimated at about £8.5 billion.
Each year the UK gets an instant discount on its contributions to the EU—the ‘rebate’—worth almost £5 billion last year. Without it the UK would have been liable for £18 billion in contributions.
https://fullfact.org/europe/our-eu-memb ... 5-million/
That's an additional 8.5 billion pounds that would be available to the British economy annually...
Also, because of the fact that the Brits never made the mistake of allowing the Pound Sterling to be supplanted by the Euro, there is probably no member country that could leave the EU more smoothly and with less uncertainty and economic cost then Great Britain.
It's an open question as to whether or not the fear mongering will succeed. Every poll I've seen that has been taken since this lip stick wearing pig of an agreement was announced has had the vote within the margin of error. As I mentioned earlier, this is pretty remarkable when you have the leadership of
both major parties supporting it. You've basically got a grass roots revolt against it going on.
The one thing Cameron has done right regarding this so far is not attempting to impose Party Discipline over the deal with Tory MPs and leaving them free decide for themselves whether to support or oppose it. (There are even a couple of members of his cabinet who have come out against it.) Had he attempted to do that, he would probably have already been sacked.
If Cameron is still as nimble and skilled a political operator as he has shown himself to be in the past, he should really start to put some
distance between himself and this stinker he's put up for a vote...
Rather than talk silly nonsense about "turning our backs on Europe"
