I want my country back! Personal thoughts on the EU Referendum
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I want my country back. It’s a refrain we’ve heard a lot in the last 5-10 years. It’s generally a call to restore some sense of what being British really means, of what Britain should feel like, and the people Britain should be composed of. What has made this refrain so commonplace is the sense that Britain has lost its sense of identity to an influx of immigrants from the EU and elsewhere. If only we could get shot of that damned institution we’d be able to get our country back.
My father-in-law is an ex-pat who lives in France and drives around in a French car. Every once in a while he drives over to see us. On one such occasion he drove it to a local supermarket in Strood, Kent. At a set of traffic lights he stopped, and a man ventured towards his car, as if he…
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In the Dark 
June 19, 2016 at 9:20 am
I want Westminster supremacy back. That’s all. It’s not a perfect democratic system (Phillip) and nobody ever said that democracy is perfect (just generally better than the alternatives) but that’s what I want back. The issues for Britain that Mark Burnley raises can then be determined by the people of Britain, as they should be.
June 19, 2016 at 9:45 am
Doesn’t the very fact that Parliament can vote to leave the EU demonstrate that we have sovereignty anyway?
June 19, 2016 at 3:08 pm
Sovereignty is best defined via how the laws are determined.
June 19, 2016 at 3:26 pm
There are 825 unelected lawmakers in the UK Parliament. They’re called the House of Lords.
June 20, 2016 at 9:38 am
And they are all at Westminster not the European Commission. If the British people wish to reform Westminster then that is a separate argument.