interesting reply to the above article.....................
Sadly all those who have a strategic advantage to gain from the BREXIT finalities will be claiming their understanding of the exact psychology and situation that the UK has and Jacek as are presentative of a failing (economic) EU State, unable to retain millions of its youth that have up sticks and moved (largely) to the UK, and a country desperate to continue to receive the overly generous handouts the UK contributions make possible is no different as he sets out his take on the BREXIT bun fight.
What Jacek fails to understand is that the BREXIT vote was not "primarily" about economics. IT was far more to do with freedom and the freedom of the UK to make its own laws; create its own legislation and not be manipulated and exploited by the Franco/German Axis which is now calling the shots in Europe. Should there be a massive economic shock to the UK, I can assure Jacek the millions of economic migrants who have found shelter and a future here in the UK will be the first to feel the heat and if a breakdown of social cohesion is part of the EU's plans to "force" the UK to remain a member of the rotting corpse that is political Europe he will find many of his jobless compatriots returning home to a Polish economy which will be reeling from the lack of funds not only from the UK withdrawing its contribution to Europe, but the lack of funds being wired back to Poland by those hundreds of thousands of people who are through their UK funds lifeline making Poland a place worth living in. The EU's structure is completely flawed, because it allows a government in Poland to fail its own people economically by not investing in industry and job creation and simply to rely on the investments and good governance of countries like the UK upon which other people (in Europe) can advantage themselves whilst never having contributed to the public spending of those nations they seek to profit from. It is this kind of exploitative model the British object to and to find themselves shackled to these indebted and impoverished nations by majority voting, forcing once wealthy countries to drain their coffers down so that the economically incompetent nations have a win win situation is completely unacceptable. Countries like Poland can fail their young knowing that the youth can export themselves to countries that are succeeding so taking the responsibility off their political shoulders, and at the same time because of their failures be given massive handouts so they can continue to be ineffective and unchanged, so the cycle of failure repeats.
The British know full well that we are in fact fighting for much more than economic survival, we are fighting for the soul of our freedom and the meaning of democracy. We can see by the whole tone of the EU that they are a spiteful; greedy; power hungry entity that will get nasty when its (very) personal interests are threatened. The cabal of Shultz; Tusk; Junker and Barnier are a miserable leadership, based on a Franco/German dominance of Europe preserving French interests and continuing to help Germany exports be as affordable as possible. The British are not alone at understanding the failures of the EU - the French people were in fact more negative about Europe than those of the British; however, after a few months of anti British rhetoric you will see a very tightening view from the British themselves. If we have to jump start our exports; find new markets; find new allies; find new ways to earn our living in the world we will - Brexit will give us the incentive to worker harder to become a world exporter. Despite the rhetoric of the EU in attempting to alienate and isolate the UK (a bit like playground bullies) so childish and pathetic is the "leadership" of the EU institution, it is an embarassment to diplomacy and civilised advancement. By alientating the UK all that will happen is that the EU peoples will see what a vile creation the EU and Brussels actually are. The memories of the European nations are very short. France was rescued by an alliance of UK and USA forces in the last war, as well as Poland which was restored to independence and Germany has forgotten its bullying heinous past as it appears to seek to repeat the errors of the future - the UK have won the right to have its democracy respected if the price for exercising democracy is punishment what kind of club (exactly) is the EU one you can join but never leave (without massive consequences) a bit like the Mafia?
The British don't want to be part of a political Europe - never have done never will do, but has been coerced and blind folded down one alley after another to a destination it doesn't want to arrive at.
Had the EU been wildly successful at all the things it aspired to achieve; economic growth; foreign policy alignment; fiscal prudence; immigration control; sound security; etc then I dare say the UK would be less keen to leave a successful structure even if it did go against the grain of our strongly held love of freedom and self determination. Unfortunately for the EU it cannot point to many achievements which have made the EU project such a stand out success; instead there is one crisis after another coming thick and fast BREXIT simply being one major symptom of a failing EU.
Rather than railing against the UK as the "difficult child" that needs a good beating to get it to conform the EU should be examining its whole structure and narrative and ask the simple question is it better to have a co-operative economically interdependent Europe with open markets and strengthening bonds and look at European integration as a long term objective perhaps over a 1-200 year timeframe? Or, as the EU elites would prefer to speed up the process of integration within a 50 year time period for 28-30+ nations all with differing cultures/languages and economic strengths - crushing cultures; democracies; identities and economies; so that the peoples of Europe become jaded; apathetic and confused by the whole speed of the chaos that is around us?
Projects of this nature take time, and if there were more people who understood the time required for cultures to merge effectively rather than be beaten into submission then the inevitable collapse of EU Europe could be avoided.
Brexit is an opportunity for Europe to re-think what it is doing and to seek consent from the peoples who are the subject of the interference. Until the Brexit vote NO ONE in the UK has been able to comment on the EU; the death of our national identity; a coming post democratic world. The EU and complicit politicians failed us, the EU lied about its objectives and tricked people into a United States of Europe - had they been open at the outset and started a slow and protracted process that was over a longer timescale then we could have easily avoided the huge problems we now face.
Sadly we lack decent leadership, having been in politics myself I recognise that most of the people who make it to the top are bullies; egotists and the self obsessed, in many ways you have to be that way to climb the dangerous greasy pole to power. However, the issues we are facing need detailed work at the coal face by intelligent empathetic people. Dealing with issues of mass inward migration; addressing the alienation and the spoilt life chances of people who see their jobs and futures walk out the door with every new (unwanted) immigrant and EU diktat; we need to deal with the massive social costs of economic tourism in terms of house prices and lack of affordability; welfare system exploitation and pressure on social services and the massive changes to our cultures.
If the EU had any empathy or understanding it would never have allowed crazy policies to spiral out of control. Brexit is a cri de coeur from the British people. An intelligent; internationally focused; worried electorate, that sees a deaf and blind EU stumbling towards the cliff edge, lashing out at critics rather than addressing the problems at hand. Had the EU helped Cameron deal with the very real problems the UK is facing with over population and did the decent thing to assist we may not be in this position - but the EU and those who profit from our economy are selfish and have no regard for the rights of British people, it would appear to be the rights of everyone else comes first; we feel exploited and abused and then have to pay for the privilege! The UK has spoke BREXIT is BREXIT and any EU attempt to make the UK suffer demeans the EU and will inflict more suffering on those 5 million EU migrants who have made their home in the UK - you are only damaging yourselves would that you could see it and demonstrating the EU needs to change urgently.
