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yrieithyddI've been doing the Difference Course for the last few weeks and tonight we briefly touched on Brexit and reasons why someone might hold one side or the other and how we felt in hearing those reasons.
The suggested reason from being pro-Brexit was that we would have more freedom outside the EU. And I found myself tensing up and getting really angry, because Brexit is taking away my freedom (to live and work anywhere in the EU)
Reflecting on it since, I think the reason I get so angry about it is that the underlying reason for Brexit is that rich tax avoiders do not like the fact that the EU has the potential to tackle tax avoiding and is less susceptible to the narrative of the owners of certain newspapers and they have been able to manipulate people who feel disenfranchised from Westminster politics and who are often not well off into voting for Brexit even though it will not actually solve the very real issues they do face. It's based on lies and will make some of the rich richer and the rest of us poorer.
The suggested reason from being pro-Brexit was that we would have more freedom outside the EU. And I found myself tensing up and getting really angry, because Brexit is taking away my freedom (to live and work anywhere in the EU)
Reflecting on it since, I think the reason I get so angry about it is that the underlying reason for Brexit is that rich tax avoiders do not like the fact that the EU has the potential to tackle tax avoiding and is less susceptible to the narrative of the owners of certain newspapers and they have been able to manipulate people who feel disenfranchised from Westminster politics and who are often not well off into voting for Brexit even though it will not actually solve the very real issues they do face. It's based on lies and will make some of the rich richer and the rest of us poorer.
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Date: 2020-09-23 09:09 pm (UTC)