My stock phrase to anyone asking me why I intended to vote ‘Remain’ was: “I don’t think the prize is worth the winning.” In retrospect I think I was right. Not because we couldn’t make a ‘go’ of life outside the EU, but simply because the government and the ‘Establishment’ was always going to let the potential slip away.
For me it was a lack of trust in our institutions rather than a lack of principle. And if our institutions were hopeless, how much worse are the EU’s. Not that it’s much solace, but at least we get a vote for our ‘Uniparty’; no one ever voted for Ursula von der Leyen or the EU Commissioners.
Like millions of voters, I could have gone either way. We all had to make a binary choice about something that we felt was very much in the balance.
But now we know that leaving the EU barely made a dent in the UK’s fortunes. The government’s disastrous handling of Covid, Net Zero and migration turned out to be vastly more impactful than leaving the EU....<<<Read More>>>...
