What you might not know about Brexit
By: Mr Robert
Tags: European Union, Truth, Brexit, Immigration, Liberty

Or the real reasons behind the vote to leave

Brexit was the only opportunity to escape the clutches of some unchecked, power-hungry autocratic dinosaur eating away at democratic choice.

Those who suggested otherwise didn’t get it. They still don’t!

Image by truthseeker 08 on Pixabay

It is mid-December, 2020.

Location — The United Kingdom of England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.

While the entire world struggles to control Covid-19, many countries have their own battles and conflicts, where citizens live in fear of death and starvation in circumstances the rest of us might never comprehend.

Some might say who gives a fig, a strange and worrying aspect of human behaviour. It’s a passing observation, just to put Brexit into perspective while not losing sight of the many fleeing from a homeland they once loved.

Here in the UK, Brexit, and the likely consequences of a no-deal outcome we hoped might never happen are looming, just two weeks away.

Unless you live in a cave, you’ll know this already, no matter where you live.

And no doubt you have an opinion. It might depend on the effect Brexit could have on you, how you perceive the bigger picture behind the Brexit result, if and how you voted, or the game-playing still stalling sensible negotiation.

Opinions here are mixed, across borders and splitting communities. Most of us are fed up to the back teeth with Brexit and the drawn-out process of leaving. We need to move on, regardless of ongoing argument and worries of what lay ahead, rubbing consciously alongside lockdowns, guidelines and protecting the ones we love.

Our friends in Europe, ordinary people just as we are, may also be sharing the same hopes, fears and differences of opinion. No one wants a no-deal reality. Common sense on both sides should respect the Brexit vote and work towards a win-win outcome.

Likely, that is not going to happen. Ordinary British people are not party to the background debates and negotiations, apart from what we might deem from the many media outlets and what we hear from both sides.

But there is a common perception amongst British people the EU machine is being deliberately obstructive, punishing Britain for leaving, or attempting to corner us into never actually breaking away from EU control.

On Medium, some writers argue the 52% of British people who voted yes to Brexit are fools, gullible to political rhetoric and taken in by the daft notion we can be a self-sufficient island nation, drowning in an out-dated illusion of Nationalism and what that falsely implies.

Such claims amount to hogwash, even though time has realised both the stay and remain Brexit campaigns tossed about lies, false promises and dire warnings of doom. The nitty-gritty of leaving, or the potential consequences of doing so and the realities of a no-deal scenario never made the light of day.

While some of it undoubtedly influenced people’s judgement, the vast majority voting to leave had already drawn their own conclusions;

Brexit was the only opportunity to escape the clutches of some unchecked, power-hungry autocratic dinosaur eating away at democratic choice.

Those who suggested otherwise didn’t get it.

They still don’t!

All the nonsense about Nationalism and hate towards our European neighbours is just fake news. It’s written to support a questionable perception of reality or to feed apparent desperation for support towards a one-sided viewpoint.

To understand why the Brexit vote happened as it did, we need to go back to 1973. The British people voted yes to join The European Economic Community. At the time, it made sense to team up with trading partners across Europe.

Since that momentous decision, no British government manifesto ever hinted EU laws would eventually become legally binding in the UK. There was no vote to agree our borders could be open for uncontrolled immigration*, or the impact it subsequently had on our social infrastructure. (*See the qualifying statement at the end of this post.)

No successive government shared what they already knew;

an unelected bunch of eurocrats, living the high-life tucked away in the bureaucratic corridors of Brussels, would have licence to create endless diktats to impose control on our way of life.

We witnessed individual government egos joining the EU gravy train, and that too had to be kiboshed, once and for all.

During the past two decades, the British people have seen more and more powers handed to the EU in a self-served death wish by successive governments, in conflict with our British constitution and sovereign state.

It was never put to the vote. It just happened.

While we live in a democracy, the government of the day serve the people, not subservience to the whims of an unelected superstate.

These are the reasons people voted to leave.

The vote corrects an error of government in continuing to ignore, dismiss and ride roughshod over the voice of the British people. It has nothing to do with hate, illusions, a wish to turn back the clock or to focus only on the country we love.

Any reference to perceived Nationalism strays from the facts, which may be closer to British patriotism, likened to our pride of heritage, traditions, and history. The past is part of who we are, and while sometimes it might embarrass us, it teaches tolerance, compassion, and mistakes we should never make again.

Brexit does not, and never did, represent a desire to do business around the world to the detriment or exclusion of other nations.

Balancing between the leave and stay votes, there are valid reasons we might have chosen to stay. If our EU membership had remained as a mutual trading agreement and each EU country allowed to run its own affairs, most British people would still embrace what poorer European countries have now lost.

Without the need for Brexit, trade, flourishing economies, and shared expertise could sit comfortably alongside benefits of free but controlled movement across borders, especially for the young and adventurous keen to explore other traditions and cultures. We might all be less distracted from meeting the needs of refugee displacement and the dire cost to human life.

It could have easily been that way.

It isn’t, and while European countries allow the vision of an EU superstate to run, the people of Britain will choose our unwritten constitution. Our historical system of parliamentary democracy enables the freedom to challenge dictatorship in all its forms, including present and future governments who think they know better than the people.

We are neighbours and intentionally, friends of the people of Europe and beyond, subject only to threats against British interests and human freedoms. Like any neighbourhood, no one wants to fall out or argue when, in the real world, we all try to adapt and compromise, upholding personal integrity, credibility and the principles and values we choose to follow.

*Immigration. Those assuming immigrants are not welcome in the UK base such a perception on the Brexit outcome and minority behaviour. While that perception had validity, it is no excuse for fake news in current time, rubbished by the reality, over many centuries and well into the 21st century, millions of people have moved to and settled on these islands. An estimated population today stands close towards 68 million, creating the diverse and multi-cultural nation we broadly embrace and welcome today.