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Originally Posted by egg&chips
I never thought that I would see the day when I valued the opinion of Londoners over the good folk of Accrington. However after something of an absence from accyweb I find myself reading the opinions of a small town. I really pray that I am wrong, but feel that many folk on here (especially those still in employment) will live to regret the exit vote. As CSLewis put it, "the dwarfs are for the dwarfs". I respect those people who have made a choice based on intelligent consideration, but have heard the braying of illogical sentiment and racism far too often today by triumphant Brexitees who have played into the hands of duplicitous Tory grandees. By Christmas I expect that both Boris Johnson and Donald Trump will have access to nuclear triggers. God help us all.
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You are entilted to the opinion that you hold....but the leave vote was precipitated by many things. The prognostications presented as facts, the outright lies(told by both sides) the dirty fighting......it all makes you lose faith in those who govern. For a long time now the people have felt that those who were elected to represent them were doing an abysmal job......they were not listening to the concerns of the electorate.
My vote to leave was considered....I looked into it very carefully.
I do not like the thought of people in Brussels (who seem to despise us) who are neither elected or accountable, can make laws for us on our little island. Laws are made in closed sessions....so we do not know how they were influenced or whether there is corruption( I know what my suspicions are)
There is no democracy in the EU...it is manipulated by the likes of Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs(why else would they bank roll the remain campaign to the tune of half a million pounds unless there was something in it for them?).
It did not help that important people in the EU issued thinly veiled threats about how we would be dealt with if we voted to leave.......allies do NOT treat their partners in this way.
It also did not help that people like John Major(who presided over Black Wednesday, and our removal from the Exchange rate mechanism....whose private life was amoral...you might think that has nothing to do with politics, but it undermines the man and the job) and Tony Blair ( a peace envoy - don't make me llaugh. He has the blood of countless men and women, sons and daughters on his hands) were wheeled out totry to convince us of the values of remaining. If either of them told me it was night I would want to go outside to check for myself.
The Common Market was sold to the country as a trading arrangement. It is no longer that...and the trade with the EU is shrinking year on year.
Maybe you consider our opinions parochial.......and those you have denigrated by saying their opinions are braying illogical sentiments and racism are entilted to their opinions too...that is what democracy is about.
I have seen no - one on here who has had a gloating (or triumphant ) attitude.
I think we are all aware that this is going to be a tough time, most of us have come through tough times in the past...and for a say in how the country is governed, then it is the price that has to be paid.