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I wanted out of the EU to have control of the future of our country in the hands of the people we elected... I have no control over the elites in Europe. That
by _Understated_ 10y ago
I wanted out of the EU to have control of the future of our country in the hands of the people we elected... I have no control over the elites in Europe.
That was the primary (possibly only!) factor in my decision.
- MagnumOpus 10y agoDo you have control over the elites in Westminster? Be realistic, we can obviously not influence who gets to be the next head of state, nor who gets placed into the Tory/Labour safe seats by the inner parties, nor who gets chosen by those people to run the civil service and our lives. Even if you think that you have influence over who your SNP MP is - he/she won't ever be in the UK government, they will never have a say on anything, resigned to jeer from the opposition backbenches. It is the epitome of disenfranchisement.
- ck425 10y agoYou have elected MEPs that make many of the decisions. Additionally in the UK currently you have a FPTP system that is arguably undemocratic and an unelected House of Lords (which I don't necessarily disagree with) so surely there are bigger easier fish to fry.