By A commentary by a Brit in Germany
Brexit will definitely harm Great Britain: It cannot happen, without the people being asked about the Deal!
A democracy thrives of the possibility and need of people changing their mind. The British people now have a clear idea of what Brexit would look like – they should now be able to vote on it!
I am a Brit (29) and remember the life-changing day of the referendum as if it were yesterday. Back then, in 2016, Prime Minister David Cameron felt pressured by his parties euroskeptic right-wing to hold a referendum on the question: Should Great Britain remain in the EU or not?
The government, which was pro-EU back then, didn’t feel it needed to start a campaign to keep Britain in the EU. They were sure the people would want the same. But they didn’t count in the unpleasant strategist Dominic Cummings. He saw this referendum as his calling. He started a huge campaign, based on lies, that was going to tell the British: The EU is bad for you!
Funnily enough Cummings himself wasn’t supportive of this idea, at first. For him it was pure revenge to the establishment. David Cameron once named him a „career psychopath“, when Cummings was the special adviser to then Education Secretary Michael Gove. Cameron was sure to prevent Cummings from getting any high paid job in government.
The Brexit campaign was Cummings PR-masterpiece, that worked out extremely well for him. He has vanished from the Brexit-scene, the British are now left with his mess.
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Commentary on the Brexit deal rejection
What a Brexshit!
At what point has a country really gone politically broke? Answer: when, with respect to what is by far the most important political…
Prime Minister Cameron looked a little lost, when he had to conceive the narrow defeat (48:52 percent) and tried to declare that it was non-binding. He stood down and also vanished from the stage. The jubilant populists such as Boris Johnson and Michael Gove proclaimed: „The people don’t want the EU anymore!“
The reality was though: The people did want the EU! The problem was, that they had just witnessed a referendum in Scotland, which went the way they wanted – they saw no need in voting in a non-binding referendum.
AND: British citizens living in the EU were stripped of their right to take part! A true scandal. To portray what the consequences might be for me, a Brit living in the EU: I was born here, yet might have to apply for residency here and might be deported, if Brexit goes through.
It has now been two-and-a-half years since the referendum. The result: An absolute Brexit-Mess lies in front of us. Great Britain has lost its face. In front of the EU and the global community.
Added to this: The British don’t want to leave the EU! The latest poll by YouGov showed us, that 56 percent (!) would vote to stay in the EU, when asked in a referendum. A clear statement.
Brexit was built on lies
Another fact is, that the whole Brexit-campaign was, as stated earlier in this text, based on pure and simple lies. Several institutes and think-tanks have been warning in the past weeks: Great Britain will be a lot worse off without the EU! The GDP will go down by „eight percent“.
The basis for talks with EU was in shambles before it even startet. Why? Well, because the delegations leader for Britain is Prime Minister Theresa May, who campaigned staunchly for Remain. Her cabinet is more involved in trench-warfare, than in finding a solution to this mess. She doesn’t look like she knows it herself.
Naturally the EU will never let a member state leave and thrive on doing so. This would only cause a snowball effect on other unsure members. So it is quite obvious why the deal that Brussels „dictated“ to May would be unacceptable for the British and was therefore quite rightly voted down in a devastating fashion by parliament.
The only way out of this mess therefore is a referendum!
The government and parliament have not managed to produce a good Brexit for the people. A no-deal Brexit would be suicide for this once so proud nation. The people have seen what would happen after Brexit and have realised they have been lied to. They must get the chance to voice their opinion.
At least @Jacob_Rees_Mogg has been consistent about the need for a second referendum, Jannus faced turnip. pic.twitter.com/074wHkth5D
— Spock Thornaby🖖 (@Spock_Thornaby) January 17, 2019
By the way: „Brexiteers“ such as Jacob Rees-Mogg actually voiced their support for a second referendum, once a deal had been made with Brussels. The oldest working democracy should therefore use this basic tool of democracy to save itself!
The EU-members Denmark and Ireland actually have exercised this on two EU-treaties – and in both cases achieved an opposite result! Both democracies are still stable. People can change their mind.
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