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Hi chaps, and thank you Landed Gentry for your reasoned and thought out comments. Cutting to the chase, impart my incredulity at my mother’s vote was the fact that she is an immigrant of some 50 years plus standing. For her to use the arguments that she did, about people coming to the country and not wanting to work hard et cetera et cetera would have been used at her and other West Indian, Indian and Pakistani immigrants back in the 60s. The irony was completely lost on her when she talked about immigrants using the national health service while forgetting that when she picks up the phone a Polish woman take her call at her doctor’s surgery. Don’t get me wrong there are principled arguments about smaller government and democracy which can be made against the European union, but these were not hers. As a parting note she also said that the fears of political and economic chaos was somewhat exaggerated, I would refer my mother to the chaotic state that Britain has been in for the last 14 days.
Britain is indeed in a chaotic state at the moment, but I don’t think it’s helpful to blame anyone who voted ‘Leave’. The blame lies squarely with the politicians who didn’t have any exit plan but told the British public they could choose between two options in what appeared to be a democratic vote. This may seem naive of me, but I think that if leaving the EU was going to be bad for Britain, and David Cameron knew it, then he should never have held a Referendum in the first place. I was horrified when I saw him resigning, leaving others to clear up the mess he’d knowingly created. I think people on both sides of the debate now feel very let-down.
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