Essexyellows
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At the risk of repeating myself......
What we joined, the Common Market was 100% a good thing. Free trade, Common standards, common practice, safety etc - all good.
At that time we were not informed of what it would evolve into 40 years later.
When Lisbon happened, and the EU gained its legal existence/status, that is the moment we should have been asked to make a choice to follow the path of increasing unity or not with far more clarity of what the EU wished to become..
The result would, without a doubt, have been different then.
However, the powers that be fudged it, and, by the time of the referendum, the Remain folk had got very complacent that the people thought everything was hunky dory.
Is there some discomfort in the short term? No doubt at all. Change does that.
Have some people found ways to overcome that? Of course.
Will things improve as more people get used to new ways of working? Yes.
Leaving the Club after 40 years was always going to hurt, a bit like when your local gets new owners and a refurb, some folk go back, some don`t and sometimes a new crowd turns up.
The country will be fine, I`ll be dead and those who benefit might be toddlers now.
What we joined, the Common Market was 100% a good thing. Free trade, Common standards, common practice, safety etc - all good.
At that time we were not informed of what it would evolve into 40 years later.
When Lisbon happened, and the EU gained its legal existence/status, that is the moment we should have been asked to make a choice to follow the path of increasing unity or not with far more clarity of what the EU wished to become..
The result would, without a doubt, have been different then.
However, the powers that be fudged it, and, by the time of the referendum, the Remain folk had got very complacent that the people thought everything was hunky dory.
Is there some discomfort in the short term? No doubt at all. Change does that.
Have some people found ways to overcome that? Of course.
Will things improve as more people get used to new ways of working? Yes.
Leaving the Club after 40 years was always going to hurt, a bit like when your local gets new owners and a refurb, some folk go back, some don`t and sometimes a new crowd turns up.
The country will be fine, I`ll be dead and those who benefit might be toddlers now.