Time and again I hear that if we were to leave the EU our economy would suffer. Now that in it self is a reasonable enough argument but almost always one of the reasons given for our economy suffering is that the EU would punish us for leaving. By way of example :
“Project fear is a fitting name you should be fucking terrified”
“The EU member states (France and Germany especially) know this, and will be out to punish us, they will want nothing more than to watch us have 3 years where we trash our economy, only to come crawling back with our tail between our legs. They will want us to serve as an example of the damaging stupidity leaving the EU entails, so they can quell the Right Wing uprising that is currently gaining traction across all of Europe.”
Yep the main reason given for our economy suffering when we leave the EU is that the EU will do everything they can to make sure that it does to serve as a warning to others. Is that not the very definition of a protection racket and the behaviour of mobsters and bullies since time began? So the argument is actually:
“The EU is a protection racket and if we leave we’ll be made an example”
I kind of thought we had in Britain a tradition of standing up to bullies and tyrants, that we’d learnt a long time ago that paying Dene geld is always too high a price to pay. However if we have slid so far that we’re once again prepared to pay Dene geld then lets at least be honest about it and admit we’re giving in to bullies and tyrants.
