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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
I got this very wrong and apologise to those whose opinions I doubted. Everyone underestimated the extent to which the anti-establishment feelings of many would drive the way they voted.
The vote has set in motion a chain of events that I'm far from convinced many understood. I certainly didn't.
Let's hope that the divisions inside the UK can be healed somewhat, they are stark, and that a fair and reasonable agreement with the EU can be reached expediently when the negotiations come.
This isn't the last the UK has seen of referenda this decade.
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The complexity of this, and the extent to which we have allowed ourselves to become knitted into the EU system, was for me a reason to vote leave. If we didn't do it today, it would have been all the harder to do it come the day our membership of the EU became absolutely intolerable.
Democracy must be exercised within the nation state. Beyond that is the realm of diplomacy. That, to me, is a kind of natural law, and if that law is transgressed for too long, the inevitable correction is all the more violent. We have acted to disentangle ourselves by deliberate choice, by democratic means, and, I believe, we are ahead of events. The EU project was too arch and clever for its own good and its end is nigh.