Not a brexiteer, but the Brexit referendum result was indeed the best possible outcome of that referendum…

Imagine if REMAIN had won the referendum! Everything going on right now will be blamed on us remaining in the EU. Even now that we have exited the EU, people still seek to blame the EU or the remainers who are supposedly frustrating Brexit efforts.

The only really sad part of this is that many have refused to exercise any individuality, but have decided to get entrenched! Nobody should hold immovable views about most things. There should be absolutely nothing wrong in being a brexiteer who has now seen the aftermath and accepts it was a wrong move or a remainer who now accepts we did indeed have no choice but to exit the EU. Seeing the outcome and doggedly maintaining a stance just for the heck of it, is what’s ridiculous

If the remainers had won the referendum then Britain’s standing in the EU would have gone from bad to worse. If we were previously unhappy that the EU never listed, it would have been a lot worse after remaining. The French and Germans will continue to think the run Europe and side with each other – well, until the French come running for our help…

The reality was quite simple really. Those who wanted us to remain in the EU – and there really should never have been a referendum anyway, we should have simply had stronger leaders who could have exerted more authority in the EU to get what’s best for the UK (it should never have come to us wanting to leave the EU) – should have put forward a stronger case but we’re simply too surprised that anyone would thinking leaving the EU was a good idea, when it was clear that leaving the EU would NOT:

1. Immediately reduce the number of foreigners coming into the UK; which was a big issue for many who voted to leave the EU as they felt their benefits were at risk and assumed – wrongly – that net migration to the UK was not in our favour. But 7 years after the referendum, we are now in 2023 and net migration is still way too high and a lot higher than what we had in 2016!
2. Exiting the EU has nothing to do with people using canoes to cross into the UK across the channel. In fact, the numbers have gone up exponentially since we left the EU and we are still trying to find a solution. Many who voted for exiting the EU had assumed the minute we’re out, we lock up the border and happy days! errr… no
3. Mean we scrap all EU-era laws and move back to a magical British law! Many who voted for Brexit do not know that English and British laws are not radically different in several areas, from EU laws, which is why they were largely compatible! The few areas of difference are not so radically different. So, the expectation of so new era post-Brexit was just not real…

But can one really SOLELY blame the EU for this debacle? Worth remembering that for several years prior to Brexit majority of the UK’s MEPs to the EU were individuals who got elected solely for promising to get us out of the EU. So, they were hardly collaborating to make the EU a success! The sad reality is that the EU went from what it was supposed to be – a simple, minimal complexity union of likeminded European countries seeking to simplify trade, cooperate where it makes sense etc. – and not a single European country where a couple or so countries collude to start telling everyone else what to do! Departing sharply from simplicity to mandating everything, in the name of ‘rules’. But where the EU really got it wrong, is in the horrible attitude they took to Brexit. Yes, they may have seen it as a deterrent, but it really was totally counterproductive. They should have just said: “you want to leave? fine, here’s a red carpet and fast-track rout out! You have been disruptive over the past few years anyway and we’ll be glad to see the back of you! bye bye”. Instead, they showed their true colours and wished to punish! It was all so pathetic really. They could have taken the moral high ground..

Unfortunately, we have now created yet another permanent divide in the UK!
All for nothing really!
Leaving the EU was and is very necessary. Forging sensible ties with the EU and both sides being reasonable, is also very necessary

Could we have been able to get the EU to listen, while we remained within the EU? The honest answer is NO. But the way Brexit was sold and how it is still being sold, is simply not true either!