The British government got itself into a pickle by promising voters a referendum. They did this to head off Farage and his party from taking a big enough chunk of the vote at the next election to allow Labour to win. That's why we had the referendum. They'd backed themselves into a corner and they'd just won the Scottish referendum so they thought fuck it, we can win this one too. The thing is though every single time EU integration has come up for a vote anywhere in Europe whether it was France or Ireland or wherever the EU side has lost and that's what happened again.

Any vote like this was always going to come down to a few percent either way so the lowest information/intelligence voters were going to be the key. The government allowed the most consequential decision of our lifetimes to be decided by the nation's window lickers. And here we are with the outcome being demonstrably clearly bad for the country, an actual increase in immigration that the tabloids are for some reason avoiding making a big deal out of and both parties terrified of admitting it's bad and we should at least rejoin the single market. Sixty percent of voters now say it's a bad idea, when it gets closer to seventy the Labour party will hopefully do an about turn although I'm not knowledgeable enough to know what percentage of Labour voters in the red parts of the country are Brexit voters. That's who they're scared of. If those people remain behind Brexit due to their nationalist/racist/window licking/whatever issues then the country will become increasingly more and more fucked.


Stuff like the fishing is very visible but completely insignificant. Commercial fishing is less than 0.1% of UK GDP. If GDP goes up 2.1% next year are we going to notice the 0.1% Of course not, but fishing is a visible thing and involves people fishing in our waters so it becomes a political football. The bottom line is pooled sovereignty means we've got to share fishing grounds which is a net loss for the country but we make massive net gains elsewhere or at least we did.