RE: Suzy225 Apr 2019 20:32
Come on suzy,we have endured countless announcements predicting doom and gloom if we leave the EU,Cameron and Osborne stood on a platform and predicted Armagedon,they brought Obama to threaten us to the back of the queue if we left EU,the BBC announces everything good due to the EU and everything bad despite Brexit. The head of small business CBI had to resign when he contradicted their forecasts.Our Prime Minster and cabinet have told lies about observing the referendum and deceived the elctorate time after time.Open your eyes and ears.
The EU has a poor record of peace (NATO has preserved that in Europe) interfering in Libya via Cameron and Sarkozy,Syria and destabilising an elected government in Ukraine. The EU sent Baroness Ashton (effectively as foreign secretary in Brussels) to talk to the opposition party and gave them £65mn to funding and nearly caused a war with Putin. We prospered within an economic trading community,at no time have we ever had the opportunity to vote for the deeper political state integration which developed from Maastricht in 1992 and later in Lisbon. Blair campaigned on a referendum about Maastricht but reneged when he saw an opportunity for advancement of his ego. It has always been an intention for political unity (Heath admitted this in an interview with Robin Day after entry), if this is such a good idea we should be able to debate that concept,otherwise we need to get out of the deceit.
I admire your sentiment but lbjj deals in pragmatic realism and is closer to reality on this one.