Europe Loses

FOR OR AGIN?

It has always made sense to be in agreement with the neighbours. Why have trade barriers when common agreements make more sense? Isn't easier that way? But whose idea was it to move from a Common Market into a political entity?
Looking back over centuries Monarchs and other royals, politicians and assassins created the atmosphere for the blood of the common person to be spilt. Now we are in a state of limbo and playing the waiting game to see who will move next. Again it is the hands of politicians, but at last they have heard the voice of a democratic nation saying what you have created is not good enough. You, the collective states of Europe, failed to accept that constructive change was needed. Prime Minister Cameron tried, failed in his discussions, and brought back with him from those negotiations very little for a united Europe and giving more power to a referendum vote. The 'inners' gambled and lost all across Europe.
No one likes to be told what to do or say and now because of this vote you, the bureaucrats and career politicians, should bloody well listen. They might not have wanted the U.K. to leave which could have been for all our benefit. There are euro sceptics in other nations and nationalistic voices are speaking and in some cases the 'far right' is kicking hard against the socialists. I am frightened by that as extremism and prejudice provide the breeding grounds for destruction.
I think it is not by chance that we have street violence in Marseille at the Euro Football Tournament and, it is my view, that this was part of a campaign to destabilize an already unsettled Europe. I am not a doom monger, but it is clear to me that it is in the interests of Putin to do just that while he deals with internal matters, the Ukraine and makes the Baltic States more jittery than ever.
However nothing has been lost yet as we still have The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, The United Nations and we, the United Kingdom, still have fundamentally a strong economy. We will still have a say at the 'top table'.
I know why I voted to stay in and I can only guess that the issue of immigration would have made some to consider that we should not remain in what is seen as a very un-democratic Europe. A small island cannot going on absorbing half a million more people per year. These are major issues and now we should have more of our own way. It is going to be an absorbing few months at least.