There is a conditionality attached to any national referendum. One assumes that populations of voters are generally literate people, and moreover, specifically literate on any referendum issue to be decided.
Inevitably, however, the conditionality leads to a cocktail of calculated public information from the hands of political elites, uncaring as to what the true facts are.
Outside of Britain there is little understanding of its 2016 vote to leave the European Union. Little is understood of the strength of the pound sterling over time, or the yoked relationship between Britain's system of justice and the number of appeals that have been overturned by the Europeans, or any understanding whatsoever of the impact of evolving European institutions on a monarchical Westminster system of governance desperately searching for relevance in the 21st century.
British people most affected by the Leave vote are likely to be educated middle class professionals, whose careers and access to the European Union are tied to its huge economic single market. Notwithstanding, rakish British upper class aristocrats, too, are threatened by the growing number of powerful Eastern European billionaires who use European Union treaties and legislation to establish and compete in Britain.
British working class people, cemented to their abject positions in society by virtue of an inequitable monarchical system, irrevocably have tied themselves to blood and soil myths and an immigration policy of shared inherited values. They too must also compete for jobs and services in their own country.
In due course, a new concessionary leader will emerge in Britain with the greatest assistance from Oxford and Cambridge-educated political elites who will continue to heavily promote their own relevance through the British national system of rewards. The politically connected, including spouses, will continue to thrive by receipt of highly subjective silks–Queens Counsels' positions by right and other inherited accolades.
The Superior Court of England and Wales will continue to produce the majority of Law Lords from the corridors of Eton and Oxford schools, the court, reverting and making unchallenged laws on behalf of protected classes inclusive of protections for national authorities accused of human rights abuses from bloody interferences by the European Court of Justice.
There can be little doubt that the effects of Britain's withdrawal will be felt exactly to the same extent in a colonized British Commonwealth including Trinidad and Tobago.
Kathleen Pinder