Waffles of an article but can't really get away from the short termism of it all or it's lack of balance.
This paragraph below captures much of it. I think everybody now gets the picture about refugees, terrorism and also the banking financial crises. Errrmmm that includes EU members. UK could have just as well argued and led the point in EU and may have mustered sport taking a lead off France and Germany. Missed opportunity imo.
As the referendum neared, this sense of threat was further amplified. A major refugee crisis erupted on the European continent while EU member states were openly and bitterly divided over the issue. Such events coincided with major Islamist terrorist attacks, notably in France, that in 2015 alone left nearly 150 dead and more than 350 injured. Suicide bombings would follow in Brussels. More than half of Britain’s population drew a straight line from the refugee crisis to terrorism, believing that the former would increase the latter. To many voters, such events not only entrenched a view that the EU could not be trusted to protect their borders, security, and way of life, but also a belief that ‘the risk’ lay less with Brexit than staying in the club.
We always had Eurosceptics but the whole arguement is that they are by large opportunists and have capitalised on events.
BIG question on how UK will fare post Brexit remains to be seen. Given fall in pound, slow down in economy, stalling of investment and house prices coming down, inflation and interest rates rising the signs are not good imo.
Oh and we are not out of the EU just yet. :whistling
I have no idea what the Brexiteers are leaping about as if they've won some big prize or award. I ask when are the Tories going to deliver Brexit exactly?
Happy days 🙂
