By the way, I would like to make my position clear. I have always been an enthusiastic supporter of the project to bring Europe together after the disaster of World War II --------------------------------------------I also believe that a cancer has taken root at the heart of the EU and it needs a thorough reform. My position is that we have to be inside to reform it. It is also vital to UK interests that we remain inside the biggest trade bloc in the world that has been able, with its clout, to negotiate excellent trade deals with the whole world and it is crucial for the city, the last remaining prop of our economy, to be able to have full access to the European market to survive, but I really hoped to see the UK as a force that would help to reform the EU and put it back on track (not that I had much hope of that happening under a bunch of ex-Etonian toffs). I had hoped that the remain camp would base its campaign on a platform that acknowledged the EU's very real faults and spelt out a programme to stay in and reform it, but instead they went with threats. This was a big disappointment for me.
Much of what you say makes sense. The UK has been in the EU for over 40 years and has had very little impact on the ever more oppressive march of Federalism. Yes ..... great, if they COULD make a difference but they couldn’t. What the EU has developed into is almost a dictatorship with rotating, self elected dictators. Immigation was just a symptom of a greater malaise.
I believe being outside this dictatorship will allow the UK and other countries that are outside, to reform what the EU started as, a trading block that will give it an ever increasing share of world trade. The EU’s trade growth is the worst in the industrial world. It has a currency the EURO. that has divided Europe and caused untold deprivation and poverty in the southern part of the continent. It was an idea doomed to failure from the start. The Federal State of Europe is an idea that is dying but the dictators refuse to accept the fact.
The Brexit has to be one of the biggest political screw up's in history. The ex-Etonian Toffs were so confident that they would win, they had no plan ‘B’ ....... let’s face reality, the UK does not even have a leader worth calling one! The last one was all mouth and trousers, he was a lackey to a very small number of people .... the Establishment! What goes on behind those closed doors is anybody’s guess, certainly people like us are not what they are concerned with.
Today is the 100th anniversary of the Somme, an example of what happens when the Establishment enforce their views with the barrel of a gun, invariably in the hands of some patriotic young man who is deceived into believing he is fighting for his country. This happens when The Establishments fall out with one another. It lasted some 140 days ....... hundreds of thousands died for a few metres of real estate.
PS - There is talk that if the UK breaks up, England will probably lose its place on the UN Security Council.
I assume you mean one of the five Permanent Members of the Security Council ?
I think that privilege is decided by the capability to annihilate the rest of the World because they are the ones with nuclear weapons.
I have not read anywhere that we are disarming, as well as leaving the EU, in fact today 3(?) F-35’s arrived from their US manufacturers into the UK at a cost of £300m each ...... Oh, ....... and there are another 138 on order. That sounds like money well spent.
We will need them when we join the EU/US/NATO in another ‘defensive’ war ..........that is when we’ve wrapped up the ones we have on the boil at the moment of course. 
