Please stay with us, say EU representatives. No one can scientifically prove that staying in the EU will benefit the UK or the EU as it requires knowledge of the future. Some Remainers say that it is better to be in the EU because we have influence and promote change. Leaving will create disruption for the EU and the UK. People will forecast the effects, and all will be wrong as the assumptions underlying them will be wrong, and the longer forward they look, the more wrong they will be.
The EU itself and its leaders, particularly the unelected civil servants in Brussels, promote and have as declared objectives increased integration of EU countries, a stronger Eurozone and fiscal unity, Federalism and ever-increasing central controls and decreasing national controls over the coming years.
The UK is outside the Eurozone, with no political party declaring a wish to be in it, rather the opposite. The UK has in general no appetite for federalism and surrender of more power to Brussels., or for fiscal unity.
The EU and the U.S. enjoy a strange up and down competitive relationship. For the UK the close relationship with the U.S. is fundamental and key to the UK’s security, ignoring all else. (The EU seem oblivious to the fact that they owe their security almost entirely to the U.S.).
When the UK and the EU share so few strategic objectives, why is it that the EU countries want the UK to stay so much? Some of the smaller and less powerful countries may want the UK a as a powerful counter voice to the big dog countries. Maybe the reasons the UK is liked so much is more its money which is handed over annually and its overall economic power and leading innovation strengths. It is hard to fathom. Perhaps there is some disingenuity here, or even some intellectual dishonesty. It is hard to say.
It is clear that, if the UK leaves the EU, with goodwill as there should be, the two can have a successful and peaceful relationship, in trade, security, shared projects and cooperation, as the closest of allies. There is no need for the EU to dominate the UK for such relationships to exist. Only the stubbornness and personal ambitions of leaders, national, governmental and industrial, will stop those relationships.
Whether in the EU or not, the UK will thrive., because it is an amazing group of nations, which often leads the world in values and change. It is necessary to leave because only that respects the democratic decision of the 2016 referendum.
