We are part of Europe, but we don't belong in the EU. It is the EU we have rejected, not the ordinary people of Europe.
Still the Brits rejected the idea of a unified Europe because they decided to dream of a past glory instead of working on a brighter future.
As a side note: even Churchill understood the European idea when he said: "It is to re-create the European Family, or as much of it as we can, and provide it with a structure under which it can dwell in peace, in safety and in freedom."
As a German, I don't expect you to understand.
What is that supposed to mean? That I can't understand differences in culture because I'm German? Really?
Well I voted leave for better or worse. It was actually partly out of frustration with the ignorance of people don't seem to know how things work. Everything is Europe's fault well now we are out we have only ourselves to blame! I am afraid that if I made the wrong decision it is the fault of the in campaign because instead of playing things in the usual political way of just making counterclaims and telling more lies they should have done things differently. It is well known that there is a lot of ignorance about how things actually work so if the in campaign was so fucking keen why weren't they organising public meetings and lectures for people like myself who genuinely wanted to know what was going on. Instead no they just did like the out campaign told lies and delivered loads of leaflets and try to counteract the claims of the out campaign
It's mildly shocking to see the suspicion confirmed that lots of Brits didn't really understand the consequences of their vote and didn't even care to google the lies of UKIP and Boris Johnson. There's simply no excuse for following dumb populism instead of investigating the unpleasant truth before making a decision that could break your country apart and lead it into misery.
My kids aren't facing a grimmer future now we've released ourselves from the EU. There may be some temporary pain, but we'll get past it to hopefully a brighter future where we aren't tied to the failing EU experiment.
There is no debate that the UK will suffer. Actually this could well be the end of the UK as we know it when Scotland leaves for good and the North Ireland conflict comes up again. Just hope that Wales stays, else it gets really difficult for the Prince of Wales and the Union Jack. And of course the financial impact will be heavy. Lots of companies will move from England, Banks/Bankers will move to Amsterdam and Frankfurt. Chinese EU imports will move from England to Amsterdam, Bremerhaven or whatever. Letting aside if BMW will continue to produce the Mini in the UK and other stuff like this. So yes, times will be bitter for Britain. And not only in the short term.
For the EU: well, not so much. Some things will even get easier. Actually, the cautionary tale of Britains misery might help to stop other nationalist movements.
But Germany's idea of a European superstate, that was entirely alien to us (but very much in line with German thinking)
All it created was nationalism throughout Europe, which then led to Brexit.
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German politicians created Brexit, nobody else.
Wow, I'm somewhat bewildered by statements like that. Living in a state with central government you're probably not aware that Germany is a federal republic. Even though our 16 federal states differ a lot in culture and financial resources, this model of government works good enough for us to believe that something like this should be also possible on an European scale. Of course it's debatable how responsibilities are split withing the federal states and the federation, still not even a Bavarian would say he lost his cultural identity because Bavaria is a part of the German Federation. And of course no German would ever agree with a central government in Brussels nor does any German dream the dream of world domination. Heck, not even the dumbest remaining German Nazi idiots ever uttered that desire after 1945.
I'm not sure if I find it amusing or frustrating to see people all over Europe always blame Germany for their misery based on a bizarre perception of the reality. It's easy of course to shift the blame to someone else instead of thinking of the more uncomfortable idea of having messed up something yourself. Still, really? Our fault again?