I have been reading some of the contributions made by pro-brexit supporters and I would like to offer an alternative view.
A cursory examination of European history will show a past steeped in wars, conflict, violence and death. In 1914, Germany unleashed a conflagration that engulfed the entire world, and millions of people died.
They just called it "The Great War," because they figured that it would never happen again. But 21 years later the unthinkable happened, and World War Two claimed millions upon millions of lives. In 1946, Winston Churchill made a speech that proposed a "United States of Europe." The gist of his speech was "get together, or this is going to happen again." This was the genesis of the European Union.
I have heard the EU described as an unwieldy, messy, feckless, bloated bureaucracy and perhaps it is. But it has maintained its prime objective and Europe has, for the past 70 years, known an unprecedented period of peace and prosperity.
To me Brexit was an act of such monumental stupidity, that it boggles the mind. "Major victory for the working class," true, but is this a good thing? Since when has the working class made decisions based on data, analysis, logic and sober reflection?" Never.
They make decisions based on their own myopic view and fall easy prey to any charlatan and con man that comes along like Nigel Farage and that other neo-nazi, Boris Johnson, who together mounted a Trump-like campaign of lies and misinformation that the racist, xenophobic and frightened working class swallowed whole.
"Brexit, a sign of hope for the world." Hope? That act of exponential dotishness has so far seen: 1. the loss of two trillion dollars from the world economy; 2. the pound sterling losing much of its value and forecast to lose more; 3. the writing is on the wall for the dissolution of the United Kingdom because Scotland, Ireland and Wales want to stay in the EU; 4. right wingers in France, The Netherlands, Denmark, Poland,and Hungary are already ramping up their harsh anti-EU rhetoric; 5. renowned journalist Gwynne Dyer expects foreign investment to dry up, the English economy to go into recession and pain to follow pain.
Alan Greenspan, a man of respect and impeccable economic qualifications and experience, calls this the worst tragedy since 1987, and to put one final nail in the coffin, Brexit is wholeheartedly supported by those giant intellects Donald Trump and Sarah Palin. Need I say more?
C Stoute,
Cascade