Can the US be relied upon?

[Mr Greene]

CAP is largely defined by Paris which relies upon a significant agricultural component of its economy, however much of French agriculture is inefficient and looks to state subsidies to continue. The French government puts a lot of effort into this as they see it as affecting their chances of reelection.
In the UK farming had been made efficient primarily as a result of WWII and the battle of the Atlantic, applying subsidies allowed commerce to underpay for produce trapping the farmers in a cycle that increased their reliance on subsidies and destroying rural economies.

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TBH The bulk of the issues boil down to the fact that EU legislation isn't supposed to be applied directly to Member States legal systems.
Every other country goes through a process of scrutiny and applies amendments to Brussels' (One size fits nobody) output. 
Except Tony 'Rubber-stamp' Blair and his flatmate...
EU revenue is 15% VAT, 20% Tariffs, 65% Fines.
It's an open secret that the EU uses the legal system to fund itself which is why everyone else amends the regulations to reduce the effect on their population. But Tony didn't do amendments so Britain took the full whack and was being bled dry. The situation was so bad Brussels actually gave us a rebate, but that of course went to HM Treasury and the plebs that were being bankrupted never saw a penny.
So we're left with a small mountain of legislation to wade through to get back to something resembling sanity.

So we had two options. Stay in the EU and try to improve things. Except we didn't. We kept making bigger demands every time we got what we wanted and weakened EU regulations to make corporations more profitable.

Instead we took the second option to leave, thereby destroying our own economy in the process

Brexit will soon have cost the UK more than all of its payments to the EU over the last 47 years put together

Doesn't sound very rational to me.

Sometimes you have to cut wreckage loose and start from a clean slate.
The whole 'debate' was rather lacking in rationality, unless you consider labeling everyone who disagrees with you as being a nazi.