Leaving, for me, is like turkeys voting for Christmas. I have always thought that in the end we will not leave and it's looking more and more likely. Whatever ones views on Brexit we are now so intertwined with EU that there is not really a way out apart from leaving with no deal. I don't think even the leavers want that!!
The problem here is that the whole media machine among others has conditioned us or at least attempted to fool us into believing that the UK will fall to its knees without the EU or a ‘deal’ and that leaving with no deal will have a serious negative impact. In reality ‘no deal’ means we trade with all who want to trade with us on WTO rules like we do with every other country outside the EU. This would include trade from the EU, something they do with us more than we do with them. Added to that we can separately negotiate our own trade deals with whoever we like including the EU (but not individual countries within the EU because the EU prohibits that). Once you look behind the mouthpieces who are spouting doom and gloom it doesn’t take long to see just who is likely to have influence. Take Mark Carney for example, do we really think he’s completely severed his ties with Goldman Sachs? Have we forgotten GS have had a hand in Greece joining the EU, even though it’s finances didn’t stack up, or when Greece decided to have a referendum, found Papandreou rapidly replaced with an ex Goldman Sachs member?
Sovereignty (the power to govern ourselves within our own country and set our own laws, rather than have another country or body do that for us), I believe, was one of the major things this country fought to protect between 1914 and 1918 and 1939 and 1945.
The EU wasn’t the EU when we joined. It was ‘The Common Market’ which as a trading bloc was not a bad idea. The thing is, we were lied to. It was never going to stop there, it was always going to be a Mega state ruled from Brussels.
The idea that the U.K. somehow needs it’s neighbours to be able to survive is absurd when you look at the years between the last war and the day we joined the Common Market. Those years were some of the most productive, innovating and formative the UK has ever known. We led the world in many spheres. Not saying we don’t now, so the idea this will all grind to a halt and we will be cast back into the dark ages simply isn’t going to come true.
They need us more than we need them. They’ve shown their true colours in the last two years more than ever before.