Those backing Brexit have sound reasons
Michael Sturmer writes as if everything in Europe is great and it is selfish and short-sighted “little Englanders” that would put everything at risk (“Brexit backers should consider consequences on the wider world”, March 12).
This is like being told to stay in an abusive relationship for the sake of the family.
Those supporting Brexit reflect a wide range of grievances – those who reject the increasing power of the unelected bureaucrats in Brussels; those who see the single market as entrenching the power of large business and their lobbyists, and those who see the folly of trying to engineer political union via a doomed attempt at economic union. But more than this, they want out of a project that is spiralling out of control.
The UK stayed out of the euro and Schengen Agreement, despite the best efforts of the establishment to railroad us in, but the overweening ambition of the project rolls on. Who asked for the EU to back a coup in the Ukraine? Who wants to allow 77 million Turks visa free access to our health, education and welfare systems?
Cold warriors in Washington, federalists in Germany and empire building bureaucrats in Brussels have brought us to this mess, they have already undermined the foundations of the post-war order.
Don’t blame Britain if the house falls down when we slam the door on the way out.