UK Brexit, questions from an American

[abaris]

Well, they're at extreme ends of the spectrum. There's no kind of compromise, it's just all in or all out.

Yeah, rob, but life's tough. If you join a club, you have to subscribe to the rules. All of them, not just the cherries on top.

Even though my country is a relative newcomer with joining in 1995, I was against the rapid expansion of the EU. Not because I hated the countries joining, but because I found it to be a better strategy to determine where the EU's going before inviting any more members to join. In 2004, when the last big expansion happened, it was glaringly obvious that the Eastern European countries weren't really interested in a political and social Union. They just wanted to pick the economical cherries while leaning heavily on the Bush administration for everything else.

Suffice to say, when we were called to vote on joining the EU, I didn't vote for the EU in it's current form. I voted for a social and political Union, since I consider myself an European. A neocon economical experiment would have never got my vote. But now that we're part of that union, I'm also aware that leaving would make us even more vulnerable to outside influences and economical drawbacks. So I would vote remain at any given day, although I don't subscribe to the EU in it's current form.