Comments by "Nigel Johnson" (@nigeljohnson9820) on "Macron pens letter, D-Day for Brexit vote | Raw Politics" video.

@snowyowel7961 logically if the UK gave away its sovereignty, it is about to regain it. Those still in the EU have lost theirs and they do not even know it, though it looks as if the citizens of the EU are begining to wake up to the loss.
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@1935rmb to be fair it is not really our thing or we would not still have the feudal house of lords. Because of our first past be post election system, most electors are disenfranchised because their vote does not count. We elect a candidate supposedly to represent us, but their real loyality is to their political party. We elect them based on promises given in a party manifesto, promises that are usually vague and which can be prioritise post-election, or ignored as we would usually say. Only the referendum delivers real democracy, it is about a single issue and every vote counts. In an ideal system we should be able to expect our representatives to make decisions on our behalf and in our best interests, but it is obvious that government works for vested self interest and the interest of a small elite. One of the reasons I voted for brexit was because it would throw a spanner into the plans of this elite. The are many reasons for voting for brexit, more than I can list here. A pertinent one is that the size of the EU dilutes the democratic power of the individual making it far easier for the ruling elite to do as they like. In a way it is similar to a thermodynamics problem, it is far more difficult to marshall the population to act in common cause. This becoming an increasingly unlikely event. When it does happen to the EU it will result in a violent revolution, with the eurocrats and bankers first against the wall. I do take your point about Europeans being uses to being ruled by dictatorships, but this phenomena is more prevalent in the middle East. Given democracy, the first thing they do is hold an election and elect a dictator, usually in the form of a self serving theocracy.
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@snowyowel7961 an error the EU may have made is to import migrants from broken countries. At less a few of these migrants had a hand in breaking the countries from which they originate. They may well be more use to changing governments at the end of a gun. If they bring their revolutionary ways to the mainly passive populations of the west, governments might start to fall as a result of violent revolution. In the UK we have had centuries of peaceful political protest, however, in the last few years there have been uncharacteristic riots with scenes of burning cars and buildings. This may be traced to the more volatile temperament of those who have recently migrated to the UK.
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@snowyowel7961 it is not only the UK who will suffer from this phenomena. Migration is set to increase as a result of global warming. I suspect the way the EU is dealing migration is a deliberate attempt to dilute tradition national cultures, with a view to replace national loyality with a new loyality to the emerging federal super state. It is also an attempt to surprised the wages of the mobile work force that the EU is trying to create. All the evidence suggests that this plan is proving to be counter productive.
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@snowyowel7961 agreed, this was never about race, it was about numbers and the countries limited resources. Those who claim leave supporters are racist or xenophobic should understand that their position is for preferential treatment for those from EU countries. This is clearly racist.
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@snowyowel7961 it is worse than that. We are destroying productive farmland in order to build homes to house our rising population. The farmland is a non renewable resource and means of production absolutely necessary for the UK to become self sufficient in food production. Even if the situation in the UK becomes so bad as to drive the migrants to find other countries to occupy, the loss and damage to UK farmland will be irreparable. Given the prospects of global warming, farmland in the UK is likely to disappear anyway as the fens flood. We cannot rely on food imports we can ill afford, when the rest of the whole world will be suffering similar climate change problems. One of the reasons for leaving the EU is to force the UK to become more self sufficient and to again be in profit in its trade with the rest of the world. This cannot happen if our means of production is being eroded while our population is growing.
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