Brexit Cafe Creme

[lindapalmara]

There's a letter in the Mail today which really hit the spot for me. I have always thought that there is no connection between the Brussels elite and the ordinary European people.

https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-mail/20181009/282462824877811

[cassa333]

Absolutely. Remainers think it is wonderful and think everyone in the rest of Europe thinks it wonderful and also think it is just the uneducated, xenophobic leavers in the UK that can’t see its benefits.

Polititions just don’t seem to be on the same page as ordinary citizens.

[Old_Geezer]

Interesting. If it is typical.

But typical or not, in any case we must be free of EU control and not rush to join another controlling group. We need free trade with as much of the world as possible, not an agreement to be dictated to by elsewhere.

(I note Japan was trying to resurrect TTP recently with it's attempts to let merchants control governments by allowing them to sue if they thought that the democratically elected goverment had passed something that benefitted their citizens but meant the merchant hadn't done their risk assessment properly and wouldn't profit as they'd hoped.)

[emmie]

i totally agree, that many would lose their high flying salaries when the whole rotten carcass of the EU comes to a halt.

[hereIam]

'when the whole rotten carcass of the EU comes to a halt'. Wow, wish I'd said that em.

[jourdain2]

My French neighbours did not think it was wonderful. They were having their identity stripped from them, losing historic systems - such as each Departement having its own vehicle registration system and numbers - and being brought under large regional administrative areas. The area as a whole voted massively pro- F.N. and anti-EU in the last election. Some communes voted 100% F.N. others voted 100% Communist. As in UK, it was cities v. the countryside.

[jourdain2]

Thanks for BA lindap.

[ichkeria]

Of course it could also be the case that people in different areas have different views :-)