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No response then? (In fact, not sure what you mean by that, please explain )
Pot, kettle, black...
Before the Referendum I made it clear that if the result was not what I wanted I would respect it. Many Remainers said the same, most have kept their word.
Out of interest what do you, + @DrWazzock for that matter, think would happen if we were to have a change of mind and, say, in a 3rd referendum 51.5% voted to remain in / re-join the EU?
The whole thing would be cancelled and we could get back on with business as usual.
Do you think the UK as a sovereign entity would still be so in twenty years? Are you happy at the thought of an unaccountable EU Army? Would you be pleased to see the 'ever closer union' completed? Do you like the idea of never being able to leave, without permission? Bearing in mind the utter failure of the EC to change or concede on any matter regarding its ever-extending reach, will you be happy to see the end of nation states?
Sovereign entity? I live in Lincolnshire. I don't really have much to do with London. Does it really matter if London or Brussels sets the rules? They are both equally distant and equally incompetent and equally unaccountable from where I'm standing.
An EU army wouldn't be unaccountable but it might have enough clout to deter Putin. EU member states squabbling amongst themselves is a gift to Putin.
I wouldn't shed any tears over the end of nation states. It might be the solution, not the problem. I have some German visitors here at the moment. We have shared values, shared interests, shared cultural I heritage. I really don't see the need to emphasise the fact I am British. My visitors have travelled freely here, can live and work freely here. But you want to go back to treating them as untrustworthy Johnny Foreigner. It's absurd, ridiculous and insulting to them,y
Perhaps you will be, some are and although I think it a pretty awful thing, they are entitled to hold that opinion and full credit to them if they are honest enough to admit it. If you like these ideas please admit as much; if you don't like them and / or think them likely to happen, what absolute guarantees can you give us Eurosceptics that these things will not happen, or are you advocating a leap into the great unknown?
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It's hardly a leap into the unknown, is it, to retain the progress we have made so far? But you want to wind the clock back 40 years. I'll bet you have doubts and reservations underneath your bluster. You are just afraid to change your mind. Meet and live with Europeans, don't just make assumptions and generalisations. I worked and lived in the continent. We work well together. We learn from each other. It's not all to our liking and some of it seems strange and there is a certain amount of banditry there, but really you want to swap a great Union for non existent mirage of olde England that never really did exist.
I'm convinced. And I'm not an idiot, not insane, not depressed. Rational and reasonable, pragmatic and cautious.
Responses please.
The responses are in there mostly in red.