The Blue Pill.

[BIAD]

It's something I will never understand. The deliberate act of not talking about a subject solely based on knowing
my point of view is grounded in a selfish reason and can be rationally defeated.

The few times a controversial subject is brought up, I'm always surprised with the brainwashed academics who
believe they're better than average person and that those in power, are accountable when something they enjoy,
changes.

Brexit was made inevitable by Tories and Britain’s weak position in EU.

'Helen Thompson, Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge University, argues Britain refusing to join the single
currency while being the continent’s financial centre made eventually leaving the bloc appear certain.


David Cameron.

This week, her paper ‘Inevitability and contingency: The political economy of Brexit’ won won The British Journal of
Politics and International Relations article of the year.
In it, she writes: “In a number of ways, the 2008 financial crash and the euro-zone crisis put a time-bomb under the
sustainability of Britain’s membership of the EU.

“They generated conflict over London’s position as the offshore financial centre of the euro, escalated the differences
between the macro-economic options open to Britain and euro-zone states, produced a significant rise in immigration
from the euro-zone periphery into Britain, strengthened German influence within the EU, and weakened Britain’s position
in the SEM with regard to financial services and banking matters.

“These structural conflicts and constraints would have caused significant problems even to a non-Conservative led
government.” But Prof Thompson said the Conservatives set the course to leave in 2010 by making “unrealisable”
commitments on immigration and pledges to return some EU power s to Westminster.

With David Cameron failing to secure the reforms he wanted, particularly on financial services in 2011, Britain’s weakness
within the bloc was made clear.

She wrote: “Any attempt to address the practical policy problems they generated -whether the risk of discrimination within
or the particular consequences of freedom of movement for Britain in relation to a monetary union of which it was not a member
-could only risk demonstrating the fundamental political weakness of Britain’s position inside the EU and erode domestic
democratic consent to it.”

The prefessor wrote: “While Cameron’s decision to offer a referendum in January 2013 was a gamble that others might not
have made and he did eschew pushing Merkel into a decisive confrontation, his options at these crucial points of decision
-making were narrow.

“Once his treaty-premised strategy had been bankrupted by the Fiscal Compact episode -whether he understood that to be
the case or not -he had no strategy available to reform the EU to British advantage.
“Indeed, even the defensive moves he thought the government had secured on bailouts and the EBA had to be refought and
were insecure so long as there was no treaty in which they could be entrenched, a problem in itself which was, in part, the
product of his own domestic push for the 2011 referendum lock.

“In this sense, Cameron made the Leave campaign’s case -that there was little control to be had inside the EU -for it.
“Those campaigning to Leave still had to seize their opportunity, a task that was undoubtedly made easier by the contingencies
of Boris Johnson’s decision to join and Dominic Cummings’ strategic thinking.”


Presumably two construction workers who wished to remain in the EU.

And, even if Remain had narrowly won the vote, the issue would still not have been settled and would probably have been
revised, she said. The professor concluded: “Only if Cameron could have released himself from the desire to win the 2015
election, an act of self-restraint almost always beyond politicians, could he have escaped from the diminution of decision
-making options at work and, consequently, bought British membership of the EU significantly more time.”...'

The Express:

Or maybe over half of the British public were f*ckin' sick of being treated like sh*t by a non-elected power that had individual
nationalistic agendas and decided as an island nation that they didn't want the Euro. But then again, I'm not a Professor of
Political Economy and still lives with the antiquated idea that the elector holds the power, not some pig-sh*gger posh-boy from
the Chipping-Norton set.

Just sayin'... and Nige says "Hi"