Brexit - The Final Reckoning

Personally I always listen to people like him and left frustrated because he states a case but doesn't make it. Take the first 8 minutes of this video. He bangs on about CNN, and in fact he is largely correct, they are biased. As is Fox etc. So surely the onus is on us, the general population, to challenge and not accept things on face value. Which loops us back to Brexit. False statements on all sides at the point of voting. Now as facts emerge the challenge is to pro Brexit folks to answer and make the case. But they never do. Because they cannot. So the Sun, Express and the Mail does it for them with thundering headlines of no value and people actually believe it.
When you challenge that you get the usual "oh, you are a guardian reader" as if that's a bad thing. I would challenge anyone to buy an issue of the Guardian and one of the three mentioned and do a side by side, like for like comparison. You could not, the depth of analysis and well argued opinion in any of those three is so shallow you would be unable to find it.

Of course Immigration was a major point, but it wasn't about people who actually worked. It was more to do with the ones that arrive just to claim benefits ! Yes, controlling the borders and allowing people with needed skills to come, while keeping out the wasters was a major talking point.

You will always have a base number of unemployed. The reality is that the vast majority of those people are either unemployable, or have no intention of being employed!

It's a bit difficult for me to surround myself with like-minded people, as a lot of Germans are against Brexit, including my dear wife. In fact, we avoid talking about Brexit now, as it is obvious that your average German hasn't a clue about the EU and how it operates. In Germany, not once have the people been asked about anything regarding the EU. Everything has been done by the politicians without any mandate from the people. Replacing the Deutschmark with the Euro? It just happened. The point I am trying to make is that there has never been a serious debate within Germany regarding the EU. The one thing that has come out of the whole Brexit issue is that I think the British have a greater understanding of the EU, compared to most other countries in the EU. As an example, most Germans think that the EU Parliament make all the decisions! They don't ask questions, they don't probe, they just follow what their 'leaders' tell them to do....even to this day.

I don't think anybody has had a problem with Europeans coming to the UK and working. 

For diabetics amongst us, Type 1 specifically, there is no insulin produced in the UK. So we import from the EU. After March 19, as it stands, imports will be held up for customs checks.

Good innit.

My feedback from friends who are nationals of other EU countries is that they are more likely to see themselves as European and happy to do so. The lack of "connection" with their national governments just highlights the issues with national democratic institutions. It's exactly the same in the UK. I would argue that UK nationals have no more an understanding of the workings of the EU than any other country. What we do have is virulent anti EU press, which is just quoted verbatim by Brexiteers. Exactly in the manner Stuart has indicated in his post.