Yes, I realise that Anju...but I also admit to voting out of a real sense of desperation that the status quo cannot/must not remain as it is. Even, though I am slightly ashamed, a sneaky malice at the complacencies of the well-heeled. A once in a lifetime chance to precipitate some real change.Where was the EU when we were facing the firesale of the UK? What possible protections where being offered against PFI? The wholesale break-up of the NHS to 'any willing provider', the selling off of woodlands? The rampant monetising of education - where we have created a single tier of universities which offer ludicrous (business) courses to foreign students, while running the vocational sector (the one I benefited from) down to nothing because why do we need to invest in expensive local youth when we can strip the talents and skills of other places (nurses bursaries being just the latest mooted change). Globalisation - a project the EU holds at the heart of its manifesto. Perhaps you have no experience of skilled trades such as welding, joinery, engineering, mechanics, electricians...but I do...and the present pathetic excuse for education was leveraged by the ability to outsource skills from elsewhere. I even asked my local farmer how it would affect him and he told me he has never applied for EU funding, as a largely one man cow operation. I suspect, like many of us, this was a last ditch attempt to be heard. to use dissent and dissolution as a means of projecting an internal rage and misery out into a wider political realm...and the EU became just another barrier to overcome.
