Brexit does not mean ending cooperation with Europe

It's ultimately a question of whether we want to be ruled by a supreme government for Europe that decides our trade, aid and foreign policy and tells us what to do. As anti-democratic as that is, I am still waiting for an explanation as to why that is a good idea.

In the end, we know why the leftists think it's a good idea. Leftists keep saying "If we leave the EU, the Tories might do stuff I don't like" - which roughly translates as "I don't want to live in a democracy where the government responds to the views and wishes of the public". It also translates as "I am happy to deprive others of the right to choose because my politics are superior". There's not really much I can say to that. Traditionally, people like that are wearing uniforms and we shoot them rather than engage in polite discourse. 

Whichever way you look at it, there is life beyond the EU. Brexit does not mean ending cooperation with Europe, it doesn't make security cooperation or economic cooperation impossible and there is a whole world outside the EU that doesn't feel the need to throw their right of refusal down the toilet. 

We're just not going to see a rolling disaster movie Brexit. What we are going to see is a very gradual, careful and safe reversal process. The biggest "shockwave" will be a cultural one when the entire EU political establishment realises that leaving the EU actually has very little material effect on anybody - and probably won't for a decade.

There are always options in this. There are multiple fallback positions and there are plenty of instruments available to get round the largely administrative technicalities. What matters is that it can be done if there is the political will. And so what it really comes down to is whether you, dear reader, are going to be browbeaten by a bunch of fussbuckets who always imagine the very worst. 

What you could have a Britain revitalising its own democracy and its going its own way - breaking this forty year deadlock of Euro-tedium - or you can have Jean-Claude Junckers placing limitations on us - forever. Your choice.