Today is the day everyone's been waiting for for months. In the last couple of weeks you couldn't read any newspapers or watch news programs without being bombarded with Brexit. It was EVERYWHERE: numerous debates, campaigns, leaflets, you name it we had it. There were even small boats in Thames.
By default I am pro EU. I have never given it much thought or gone in to depth but that is what my gut and heart are telling me. EU is good. Nonetheless I did not register to vote today. I just feel that is none of my business. Yes, I've been living here for 5 years now and paying all the taxes etc. But I guess my heart is not really here and therefore whether the brits want to leave or not and what the consequences are none of my business.
Secretly I am of course hoping that they'll stay. I know EU isn't perfect but we are the EU. Brussels isn't some higher power run by one person. We have chosen people to go there to represent us and if they make crappy decisions then obviously we've chosen crappy people. Largely I am hoping for them to stay because who knows what's going to happen after they leave. Not just in Britain but in the EU. What effect will that have on other countries whose people are afraid and hateful towards "Brussels".
A teeny weeny side of me does want to see what happens (and later on gladly boast "I told you so"). And Trump becoming the president of the USA would be the cherry topping on the shit storm that is about to happen :) Or maybe I'm wrong and everything will be honky dory because the experts do not know best. As the Leave campaign stated in one of the debates. UK is fed up with experts! Done! What do they know? Nothing I tell you! Leaving the EU means we take back CONTROL? How? We don't know yet but we WILL! All the refugees will magically disappear after we've left and so will all the immigrants taking social housing and burdening the NHS and taking all our benefit money. Away with them. We don't want to conform to EU regulations any more! Meaning we won't trade with them any longer. Oh wait!? We do wan't to trade with the EU. EU will still have those regulations! We will still have to obey them??? But no longer have any power in making or changing them? Good deal! :)
Ttyl ;)
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