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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
This will be your only chance to leave. There won't be another time unless the EU implodes.
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Correct. If we stay in I have no doubt the EU and our current/future govts. will act to make any further attempts at us leaving more difficult in one way or another. Look how much it's taken to finally get us this referendum! We will not have more power or even the status quo, gradually we will have less power as has been the case during the entire period we've been members of the 'club'. That is the EU's undeniable raison d'etre after all.
It's always struck me as odd that devolution within the UK is being pursued on many levels - regionally and nationally, yet at the same time our glorious leaders feel we're better off being reduced to a fraction of a large EU whole with power wielded centrally and relentlessly from Brussels and Frankfurt in a fashion which does entirely the opposite and with the aim of taking away 'local' powers and reducing democracy. It's really quite surreal.
Anyway it's quite clear to me that this will be our one chance to get out in anything resembling an orderly fashion, if at all. I'll be going to my grave knowing I voted to take it.