(As with all my blogs, these are my thoughts only, If you disagree feel free to leave a comment, or simply stop reading)
What Normal People think.........What the politicians and the media forget, or should I say they choose to forget, is that government is about the people.
Nigel Farage and his UKIP party formed many years ago, I'm not that interested in them to know exactly when they were formed, but, the fact that they gained so much interest from the public and from the media suggests that there was a need and there was at least an interest in leaving the EU.
The reason for voting out is, I am sure, very varied, and yes I am sure some people were racists, but after talking to many people I can say quite categorically that not everyone who voted out was a racist.
I am proud to have voted out and I stand by my decision but I do not consider myself a racist in any way, those that know my personal history would know this to be the case.
The issues about membership of the EU are huge, and for me it was about sovereignty and the UK being able to make and implement its own laws without interference from another body.
Those that think laws such as maternity and paternity leave, minimum wage, the working week etc, aarere going to end, averyre naive, or ill-informed.
Immigration certainly seems to be one of the bigger issues, mainly picked up by the mainstream Media, hatred pushed by the Daily Mail and the Daily Express and indifference pushed by some of the highbrow newspapers.
I am sure most people would agree that immigration was certainly one of the issues, my concern over immigration is in no way racist it's simply a matter of numbers, simply a matter of space in our tiny island, and simply a matter of jobs for our young people, regardless of their ethnic background.
I honestly believe that if there are two people standing on the border at Dover one is from Europe but unskilled he is automatically allowed to come into our country, the other a qualified doctor from pretty much anywhere else in the world outside Europe cannot enter, he has to meet various visa requirements, residency requirements, financial requirements, you only have to look at the Australian couple living in Scotland that have hit the news recently to realise that our immigration system is completely screwed. How is it fair when we need doctors and nurses that we are only allowed to take them from Europe when there may well be skilled people from the America's from Africa from Asia that are equally skilled but we have to give preference to those from within the EU that policy in itself appears to me to be racist.
As I have already said above, most of us who voted to leave the EU voted on the issue of lawmaking, of stricter border controls, and of independence. It's important to make clear to those people who voted in and got angry after the result because they basically don't understand democracy, that those people from the EU who are currently working in this country will not be sent back, at no point did anybody including Farage suggest that repatriation was an issue, there maybe a couple of idiots who mentioned it and of course then hit the mainstream press but people tend to forget that there are nutters about, that there always have been nutters about and they're always will be I seem to remember when the gay marriage law was going through one UKIP Council said that they would be floods as a result, or something equally bizarre. Repatriation as far as I'm aware was never and will never be an issue this was just a scare mongering tactic after the result put out by those people that were disappointed or upset with the results.
On that point, that is something that does really wild me up there was a lot of smoke and mirrors from both sides on the in out referendum both sides were full of b******* neither side gave us the full story as far as I'm concerned so people had to make their own mind up at the end of it all 52% of those that voted voted to leave the EU for whatever their reasons may have been, so the other 48% need to get over themselves and accept the decision. I was very disappointed at the PR referendum a few years back I honestly think proportional representation is the way forward but I did not then go around calling people who voted against it names after the result.
Its a misunderstanding of the way our voting system works and just generally being a t***.
What does amuse me is the reaction of young people, without looking the figures up and trying to remember them I'm sure it was about 70% said they wanted to remain and yet only about 20% of them voted, perhaps this is a lesson to you young people for the future if you want your voice heard then you need to get your arse away from the Xbox and go to the Ballot Box this is the way democracy works if you don't have your say then you won't be heard.
It also amuses me what happened in the political world and within the political parties after the vote such as the leaving of the the prime minister the reshuffling and re positioning of senior politicians including Michael Gove and Boris Johnson, and this also went on and in fact is still going on in the Labour Party, for those of us who are able to stand back and take a critical yet open-minded review we all know that it is in fact the civil servants, the men in suits that actually control things, those of us who have watched Prison Break know of the 'company', and although I am in no way a conspiracy theorist, I am quite certain that a lot of the moving around was more to do with people we never see or hear about, telling our elected officials what they can and cannot do.
I will deal with Jeremy Corbyn and the labour leadership fiasco in another post, but it does show that it's not about being elected it's about whether you fit in, what school tie you are wearing, the right family background, and that you know the right people.
Only time will tell the true implications for leaving the EU, both sides said before the referendum there is going to be uncertainty, that was always to be expected. Where I believe the remain campaign went wrong, was with the extreme scaremongering and also suggesting that the leave campaigners had no plan, no I am sure there was no plan how can you plan for such a thing? we do not know what will happen, in a way that is quite an exciting thing, that we can go now, go out and deal with the rest of the world we can buy from Brazil or Argentina, or South Africa or China if we want to, we can buy from Commonwealth countries, why not purchase and sell to people that we have more connection with, our only connection with Europe is because we are closer to them geographically.
No one truly knows what this country will look like in 10, 20 or 30 years time I honestly think it will be a better place, but I also know that it will be a rocky road and there will be lots of bumps and problems along the way, we have seen Sterling drop against other currencies, it bounce back a bit and it will continue to drop and bounce back. The property market has been hit a little and there are many other areas mainly in the financial sector where things have been effected adversely. But once we are properly out of the EU, which will probably take 2 to 3 years, we will not know what it's going to be like but at least we will be standing on our own, at least we will be making our own laws with the public able to elect our own politicians, if we don't like what they do we can get rid of them at the next election
Better than those people in Brussels we have no control over, we did not elect them in fact nobody elected them, most of the day to day business in Brussels is done by people on a very good salary doing a job and that's it they are just doing a job that they are well paid for, why should they decide whether Tesco's is allowed to sell bent bananas or beans are not green enough?
Britain used to be envied around the world as a country, we have lost that, the EU has attempted to suck most of it out of us, give us time and we as a country will bounce back, as for Scotland who want to remain in the EU you silly silly bastards.
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