| Topic: | Re:Treaty of Versailles | |
| Posted by: | Richard Greenhough | |
| Date/Time: | 01/05/17 11:10:00 |
| "I have spent the last few days in the building where the Treaty of Versailles was signed 98 years ago next week, trying to explain to colleagues from Europe and elsewhere why (some of) the UK voted for Brexit. No-one could understand why we committed an act of collective madness last year, nor believe that we would actually go through with it. To the latter, I had to explain that we probably would do." Perhaps you might mention the contemptuous way the EU treated David Cameron's attempt to re-negotiate our arrangements with them ? By failing to give him even a fig-leaf which he could use to claim his re-negotiations were successful, their arrogant dismissal of the UK's concerns meant that Cameron could not go into the referendum claiming that he had a decent deal which made it worth remaining a member. Instead he had to rely on Project Fear, which enough people saw through to decide to vote Leave. There was almost no sign of a positive vision for the future of the EU put forward in the referendum campaign, just an attempt to scare people against wanting out. |