Today’s fact: leaving Europe is not
just for Christmas.
Interesting to hear some people
inclined to vote for Brexit on the radio yesterday morning. They were asking:
‘if we leave Europe and it all goes wrong, when do we get the chance to join
again? Is it in 3 years or in 5 years?’ The fact that the answer to the question
is ‘probably never’ and that Brexit is a one-way ticket, does not seem to have
dawned on some of the anti-Europeans.
Interesting also the way the
anti-Europeans dismiss the overwhelming weight of reputable, statistically
supported economic forecasts that leaving Europe will damage us, and that the
only question is how much. The Brexiters reply: ‘forecasts are nearly always
wrong’. And yet they base their own arguments on completely unsupported forecasts
that the EU is going to (a) get closer and closer or (b) break up. As these
forecasts are contradictory, plainly at least one cannot be right.
And even if either should one day
come to pass, neither is a reason for leaving now. Should the EU get closer and
closer, we are exempt from the process, and if we should ever feel our
exemption was insufficient, we could then leave. Similarly, if the EU were to
break up, we would, like everyone else, leave.
The anti-Europeans are behaving
like a man on a cliff top who jumps off because he is afraid that at some time
in the future a dangerous animal may appear.
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