Brexit Referendum, 10 years on

I always meant to have some major epic planned for today’s post, but alas. What I have instead are some shorter, compartmentalised thoughts on the whole debacle. Why Brexit? There’s a fair bit I could talk about: The evolution of the European Communities to the European Union, worries of the EU overruling domestic decisions, immigration concerns, or decades of weird fearmongering and lies from the press. I could talk about our role in Europe, centuries of foreign policy spent interested in Europe while being distinct from it. Leading to us not caring about a union we were part of, seeing the EU as an amorphous blob outside of us that laid down rules & restrictions. But above everything else, Brexit was a short-sighted gamble by David Cameron. He promised a referendum to stop Nigel Farage’s UK Independence Party from taking Conservative voters. He assumed that it’d be a walk in the park and that we’d never ever vote to leave. Thanks Dave. How & why I voted I voted remain1. I didn’t…