It is funny how people think that their vote matters. ‘’If voting changed anything they would make it illegal’’. It is as simple as that. People deny this because they really want to feel like they have the power to change things via a referendum or an election. Did they ask your opinion on all the wars they’ve started? Will they ask your opinion on the privatisation of the NHS? Have they asked your opinion on how the seats in the parliament are distributed? No. Why? Because they don’t care about what people think. I am not pro-EU or anti-EU. I am pro-Democracy and this referendum gives a false sense of democracy and this is what I want to talk about.
If you don’t vote for the exact deal, then don’t expect the deal to match with your expectations/opinions. It happened with the Greeks and the Dutch, and it wasn’t the EU that didn’t let them do what they wanted. They didn’t vote for the terms and hence it was on their governments to decide. It wasn’t the undemocratic EU that changed the outcome of the referendum, as the outcome of the referendum was ‘interpreted’ in different ways by the governments. As you are not voting on how you want the relationship between the EU and the UK to be, your vote is insignificant. For example a critical question isn’t asked: Do you want the EU to be in the EEA or not?
If people want to take control of their borders they should be allowed to do so. However, even if the UK leaves the EU, it will most likely join the EEA, which allows the free movement of the citizens of those states. More than 2 million EU citizens would have to get a visa in order to stay in the UK and 1 million British people would need a visa to stay in the country they currently reside. It would be impractical to make all these people to get a visa, but that’s not even the main problem. What about the Irish border? What will happen if Scotland ‘leaves’ the UK on day (which will be more likely in case the UK leaves the EU.
What does a vote to remain mean? Does it mean that you are happy with how the EU is at the moment? No. What if the final vote is leave? Does it mean that the UK will get rid of the EU completely? Will it control its borders? No.
What really pisses me off is people that talk about the trade deals/agreements, when they are clearly clueless. Companies have invested billions in order to comply with the current regulations. Do you know how much time and money it will cost in order to change them? Do you think that they would want to bother with changing a lot of the current laws etc? I guess most people have no idea about how the EU decides which trade agreements or regulations should be signed (myself included), what trade deals have been actually signed so far and what their impact is, so why should they have a say on something they don’t understand? What people need to understand is that all these laws are made by the people who have power. Not the ones that look like they are in power, like Cameron, but people that have enough money to do whatever they want. They make the laws the way the want them to be and the EU just makes it easier for them, not that if the UK left the EU, they would struggle to make the government do what they want.
The government decided to let the people vote on this, because regardless of what happens, the lower classes lose. A lot of time and money has been wasted by both sides in order to manipulate people, rather than discussing and solving actual problems. Once again, the masses have been distracted from more serious problems like the NHS, ongoing wars and the democratic deficit within this country.
My opinion is that the UK should Brexit from the EU, but keep open borders and free trade with Europe. Those are the good parts of being in the EU, the other stuff is just statist dreaming. There's no reason people in the UK should obey orders from Brussels in the hopes of attaining some grand utopian superstate.