Why I will be leaving Brexit Britain (UK Guardian)

[inanna]

Saturday 25 June 2016 08.29 BST

Britons have voted against their political establishment by rejecting the only thing protecting them from it

A few months ago I boastfully announced on this very site that as a German working in London, I was going to leave the United Kingdom if it left the EU. To be honest, at no point did I think it could really happen.

The polls mostly were fairly promising, the vast majority of the political establishment supported Bremain and – most importantly – it just seemed too irrational to leave a union that you only got the best bits of, without having to face the more negative sides. Now the unthinkable has happened. Britons voted against their political establishment by saying no to the only thing that is protecting them from it.

In the piece I wrote back then I barely focused on what would make this country a place that I would be afraid to live in. Now that David Cameron has resigned and Boris Johnson could be his successor, the image in my head has become a bit clearer.

No matter who ultimately becomes prime minister, the Tories have a clear mandate to turn the country away from Europe. What I see in a few years from now is a country on the way towards a plutocracy, with only the leftovers of the benefit system and the NHS, unaffordable education, as well as widespread mass surveillance and trimmed-down civil rights. The upper crust will get richer and everyone else will get poorer. Do I want to live in a country like that? Not for a single minute.

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Link: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/25/why-leaving-brexit-britain

[BlueMTexpat]

1. The writer has nailed it, both

in the highlighted section and here:

...most importantly – it just seemed too irrational to leave a union that you only got the best bits of, without having to face the more negative sides. Now the unthinkable has happened. Britons voted against their political establishment by saying no to the only thing that is protecting them from it.

And anyone on DU who believes that the Brexit is a good thing for the UK needs their head examined.

[Koinos]

2. K & R

[libdem4life]

4. The Law of Unintended Circumstances. The people are awakening globally.