Brexit - here's a good read from a French insider's perspective!

anon92567933 · 17 October 2018 17:00

As someone who’s voted Leave, and made no secret of it, I’ve been on the receiving end of plenty of insults, questioning my intelligence and sneeringly telling me I’m selfish. Mostly from people who then complain about their own circumstances being affected, which I should have thought was a selfish viewpoint! Not just on this forum where there’s been a few … but various other fora into which I venture and state my point of view. As I’ve posted here many times - (and no I shan’t go into the argument again) - I’m all in favour of a trading community within Europe. But not to a centralised government which is where the EU is heading. When the EU was seven or nine fairly prosperous countries then there was a balance … now 27 rather higgledy piggledy assortments of prosperities. I felt that a Remain vote would have given carte blanche to a future government deciding to join the Euro, and given the go-ahead to ‘more Europe’. My Leave vote was to halt this - to me, certainty - that th…