Americans are angry. Why? Primarily, they are fed up with a political system that is unable to deliver anything to working class and middle class Americans. The Establishment and the super rich do OK and have been doing for the last 15 or 20 years in spite of the financial collapse, engineered by those self-same super rich. But its the same in Europe. Ordinary people are sick to death of the failures of our leaders to achieve anything very much for ordinary people while protecting the interests of the very rich.
David Camaron has put before the British people a draft set of proposal for his re-negotiated deal for Britain within the EU. In reality it is a document offering nothing — in spite of all David Cameron's stated aims. If he thinks this paltry document offers enough for us to vote to stay in the EU, he is much mistaken. No powers are returned to the UK parliament and nothing is to be done about immigration either from withing the EU or from outside.
But these nothing proposals are not acceptable apparently to other member nations in the EU, so it seems likely that the final document will offer us even less. How can any prime minister put these proposals forward as a powerful reason for our staying in the EU?
I shall be voting to leave the EU and I hope all sensible citizens will do the same. It seems likely that if we vote to leave other countries will be pressing to do so as well and the bureaucratic nightmare which is already looking very wonky, will finall collapse. And good riddance!
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