October 2016
Still waiting to hear any reason to Remain
“Questions questions, give me no answers! All you ever give me is questions, questions!” as the great Tony Hadley had sung decades before. Well, not entirely appropriate as there aren’t really many questions being asked by the remoaners, but they are certainly very slow to give any answers.
My own position is always one of wanting to learn. Of course I hold my opinions as strongly as anyone. Why not? You think something so there should be a good reason for it right? At least if you care passionately about it surely? So if someone says they think remaining is a good idea I want to know why. I ask at every opportunity and have yet to have a decent answer. Nothing showing any imagination. I keep on asking but I rarely get any answer of any sort.
Sometimes you get a vague idea we would be ‘better off in’ as if money was the only consideration, let alone that was the case. They don’t really know why but claim we ‘need immigrants’ and trade with our biggest market. Well we’re a bigger market for them so they need us more but the fact that it’s a big group means little when the whole premise for it is protectionism and it is failing in a bit way. Falling further and further behind and with the PIGS effectively economically DOA. The EU is an economic zombie we would not want to be tied to if we had any sense but the remoaners just don’t see it and ‘Love EU’ - love truly is blind apparently. There is also a sense of ‘working together’ which is admirable I suppose but there has never been any suggestion that anyone ever wanted to ‘haul up the drawbridge’ is so often suggested. No one. No one ever suggests we ‘send ‘anyone home’ either. This is all fake news of the worst kind. Not only is it not representative, it’s not at all true in any respect. Is that the best you can do? Along the way there are silly snipes that are picked up and repeated en masse by the petrified parrots.
I have thought long and hard about why I might have voted stay. Real reasons that would actually be a direct choice and not just something made up. The only thing I can intellectually validate is the natural desire to avoid change and the unknown. If you really think things are OK and we are not being taken in the wrong direction because of a lack of knowledge or awareness.
My own position is always one of wanting to learn. Of course I hold my opinions as strongly as anyone. Why not? You think something so there should be a good reason for it right? At least if you care passionately about it surely? So if someone says they think remaining is a good idea I want to know why. I ask at every opportunity and have yet to have a decent answer. Nothing showing any imagination. I keep on asking but I rarely get any answer of any sort.
Sometimes you get a vague idea we would be ‘better off in’ as if money was the only consideration, let alone that was the case. They don’t really know why but claim we ‘need immigrants’ and trade with our biggest market. Well we’re a bigger market for them so they need us more but the fact that it’s a big group means little when the whole premise for it is protectionism and it is failing in a bit way. Falling further and further behind and with the PIGS effectively economically DOA. The EU is an economic zombie we would not want to be tied to if we had any sense but the remoaners just don’t see it and ‘Love EU’ - love truly is blind apparently. There is also a sense of ‘working together’ which is admirable I suppose but there has never been any suggestion that anyone ever wanted to ‘haul up the drawbridge’ is so often suggested. No one. No one ever suggests we ‘send ‘anyone home’ either. This is all fake news of the worst kind. Not only is it not representative, it’s not at all true in any respect. Is that the best you can do? Along the way there are silly snipes that are picked up and repeated en masse by the petrified parrots.
I have thought long and hard about why I might have voted stay. Real reasons that would actually be a direct choice and not just something made up. The only thing I can intellectually validate is the natural desire to avoid change and the unknown. If you really think things are OK and we are not being taken in the wrong direction because of a lack of knowledge or awareness.