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Brexit: out means out!

The people of Britain have been massively lied at by the proponents of the leave-campaign. They have been told that everything would get better, that everything that goes wrong in Britain now is the EU's fault, and that britains would end off wealthier and with more influence in the world than within the EU. All of that isn't true, but most decisions to vote leave were based on that.

And people are still lied at.

They are told that in the Brexit-negotiations with the EU every effort will be made, that they have the best possible access to the single-market. But the best and only access to the single-market is to be part of it, out means out!

They are told that the British government will assure that specially the young Brits will have access to educational programmes of the EU, but those were designed exclusively for EU-citizens, out means out!

They are even told efforts would be made to keep up EU-payments for British agriculture and industries, which is totally absurd. After a brexit Britain will not make payments to the EU anymore, so it will of course receive no payments whatsoever, out means out!

The list could be continued much further, so generally people are not told the truth about who decides about the future relationship between Britain and the EU. British politicians still pretend this would be Britain picking raisins, arranging everything to it's own comfort. Britain tried to do that within the EU for a long time, trying to get exceptional regulations on just about everything, blocking many reforms all other countries were supportive of. As an EU-member state Britain had the opportunity to do so in many cases, to the disgrace of the vast majority of the other European countries. These countries have no motivation at all to make any exceptional concessions to Britain any more, and they will not do so. Telling people that Britain will be given the chance to dictate their terms from the outside of the Union, is highly dishonest, because out means out.

A second referendum

As the people of Britain have not been correctly informed about the real consequences of a Brexit, it is totally clear that they must be asked again after the negotiations with the EU. People have been promised a bright future outside the EU, even if there were no real arguments for that. Many promises turned out to be straight out lies.

Also the Scottish will not leave Europe together with the English and Welsh, and most probably the Irish will never accept a border on their island again. Scotland voted against independence, because they were promised Britain would remain in the EU. That promise has been broken, and therefore that will have to be part of a new referendum. Nobody can tell to date how any of the agreements between the EU and probably England and Wales will look like. When people can make the decision between staying in the EU or having Britain split up and separated, it would be a completely different question. And this time people would know exactly what options they can choose from, and what the consequences of either choice would be.

So as soon as it will come clear what the real consequences of a Brexit will be, when people can in fact see what it will really mean for them, it will be absolutely appropriate to ask again, if they really want that.

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