UK to leave EU

[Pat Mustard]

This was probably the deciding factor for me. My view is that there is little appetite for change within the EU, other than the ever increasing expansion of members.

Which was one of the impositions on the EU by successive UK governments from Thatcher until Blair, because they were obeying the then US line that the best thing to do was to quickly usher in former Soviet satellites into the EU, regardless of how ready they were for accession (with disasterous consequences in many cases).

The continental view was always that expansion should be more gradual and partial in many cases.

Ironic isn't it that one of the main cases made by the Brexshitters was as a result of their sainted Maggie's insistence of a rapid acccession of Eastern Europe. It's almost as if they didn't understand the UK's position in the international jigsaw.