I'm being serious.
Withdrawing from the EU is a very serious matter with fairly radical economic consequences. If you support this based on some sort of reform agenda related to immigration I would hope there would be a more direct effect other than "a chance" some "elites" will take some unknown, undefined action on said agenda.
Do the elites have any reason to take this action? I'd love to know about it.
It seems there's a bunch on fairly unexamined assumptions at work here. (that's putting it politely)
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To give you a proper response about my views on Brexit would take up far more time than I've got spare. So in short:
For some it's about immigration, but for me the key fundamental is that "ever closer Union" was only ever going to end in a disaster (Euro anyone?). I own businesses in two EU countries, I also live in the same two EU countries and my wife is from another EU country. I don't have a theoretical perspective, I live it every day. The UK is culturally too different from the Continent, especially the Southern European nations, to ever have anything other then some form of common market to ease trade. I also have businesses in other non EU countries and the challenges for my company are no more nor less than conducting business in an EU country so the so-called advantages are not all that obvious in my practical experience.
Europe is infected with the cancer of socialism and I don't want my country to suffer the same problems. Spain, Portugal, Greece and probably Italy are basket cases in pretty much every way, and the inclusion of countries such as Romania and Bulgaria do nothing but drag everyone down to the lowest common denominator. The streets of London are now paved with gypsy beggars and thieves.
I also have an instinctive dislike for unelected officials in Brussels, the worst place on the planet for self destructive political correctness, dictating to the UK.
But I am not celebrating leaving the EU. For me it would have been far better to have had a pragmatic renegotiation, but the arrogance of Brussels made that impossible and they gave Cameron a humiliating package to go back to the British people with. I don't want to shackle myself to such a bunch of dumb cnuts.