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Because it makes the EU look evil, and remaining looks like submitting to bullies.
by taejo 10y ago
Because it makes the EU look evil, and remaining looks like submitting to bullies.
- barrkel 10y agoThe EU is a protectionist island in a global economy filled with large ambivalent actors. It's less evil, more like self-preservation, or an immune system. There has to be surface tension to retain mass, and there has to be barriers because that's it's raison d'etre.
- taejo 10y agoI understand the game theory, but I think politically, it would be easy to spin this as the EU being a bully who punishes you if you don't play with them, and many voters would prefer to tell such a bully to bugger off than to play along (indeed, a lot of the Leave campaign was already about how Brussels bullies Brits into doing things they don't want).