Well, I get it. I don't know why you left, or why it was even close, but politics are pretty much 50/50 around here too, which I don't understand. How could it be 50/50? Think about it. Pretty much exactly half the people one thing and half the people want the other. I may have mentioned that Coke/Pepsi isn't even half and half. I have heard the sovereignty argument, which sounds like you want to have the right to make car seats where the babies go flying through the windshield in an accident instead of making them where the babies don't go flying through the windshield in an accident like in the EU because a bunch of bureaucrats in Brussels thought that might be a good idea, and by God you're not going to have a bunch of bureaucrats in Brussels telling you what to do. But what do I know. Not much I guess. Well, we've got California, so its not like we're ones to talk. They ban straws and stuff.
Did California ban all straws or just the plastic ones? I get banning the plastic ones, people are careless about recycling and they end up where they can do harm. But those waxed paper ones are ok, aren't they? Don't they disintegrate after a short time, I can't remember.
I never bought the sovereignty argument for Brexit, or that is I thought the sovereignty argument was cover for the "we don't want any foreigners here" argument, which all but the crudest elements know not to say out loud. I don't have much time for that argument, being the son of immigrants and having grown up and worked mostly with immigrants or their kids most of my life. I pretty much see immigration as being a net benefit. Given that I live in North America, the entire concept of being against immigration is deeply ironic, but then I don't abide by the notion that the white man had god's approval to assume automatic dominion over North American real estate and shouldn't have to pay retail for it. (I have to add here, because even though it should be understood but won't be, I am not in favour of illegal crossing of borders, I am talking about immigration. The two are not the same thing.)
The thing about Brexit is that things are now how they are. There isn't a second UK that did not Brexit and with which you can make comparisons 10 years from now. The people growing up in UK with internationally transferable skills will move if they want to, albeit with a bit more paperwork. Will the rest be able to buy cheap locally made underwear? Only time will tell. Will the Nissan plants go away? Will there be border issues between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic? Will I have to pay more for good British TV programming?
