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A few are asking what's Remain's dirty secret?
Precis: Like Leave, Remain is full of British exceptionalists who reject the EU's ultimate goals.
Their vision is not positive but a kind of modern damage avoidance/limitation exercise in the face of loss. /1
Precis: Like Leave, Remain is full of British exceptionalists who reject the EU's ultimate goals.
Their vision is not positive but a kind of modern damage avoidance/limitation exercise in the face of loss. /1
The 1950s view still prevails that Europeans won't get anywhere with their state-building adventures; don't mean it anyway; that we can lead/reform them in our direction; and leaving is bad.
StrongerIn neatly reflected this view: could never say they favoured political union. /2
StrongerIn neatly reflected this view: could never say they favoured political union. /2
Blair, Clegg, Cable and others persist with it today, even to the point of suggesting that the EU will reform Free Movement in Britain's favour. In the final analysis they are as 'British' as any Leaver. /3
As per ex-Commissioner Jonathan Hill, Britain as a whole has generally viewed its EU 'adventure' as losing something, not gaining something. Unlike continental Europe.
Britain doesn't have a pro-Brexit problem - Britain has an EU problem. /ends
Britain doesn't have a pro-Brexit problem - Britain has an EU problem. /ends
