"Digby described himself as a "reluctant Brexiteer" and said that what convinced him was the fact leaving the European Union would give power back to elected officials."
Does Digby mean the unelected House of Lords (which has more members in it than the Commons)? Or does he mean the unelected Civil Service? That's most of central government in the UK right there. And what power exactly would these elected officials have returned to them through us leaving the EU?
Oh, and the elected officials we do have are
busy trying to rig the system so they can pass laws giving themselves wide-ranging powers without accountability.
I'd bother to refute this using reason, but instead let me put this into words you'll understand more quickly: You won. Now shut up and deliver the Brexit we were promised.
- The people who voted Leave to get rid of foreigners;
- The people who couldn't wait to abolish all those EU laws but couldn't name one when asked;
- The people who voted Leave to 'stick it to the British establishment';
- The people who voted Leave because the EU is undemocratic, but are fine with UK laws being decided by a central Government which is mostly made up of unelected legislators;
- The people who said the arguments such as 'taking back control' were racist when used by Scottish independence campaigners, but weren't racist whenLeave voters used them;
- The people who believed the lie that the EU costs us £350mn a week;
- The people who claimed negotiating our way out of the EU would be easy;
- The people who said countries would be queuing round the corner to sign trade deals with us;
- People who believe that Brussels is some unaccountable body doling out laws to all member states which cannot be questioned;
- People who don't understand that the EU sets the standard to which member states must align their respective laws;
- People who believed the EU undermines British sovereignty (even though every member state is by definition a sovereign nation);
- People who believed the UK's open borders was Brussels' fault as opposed to Westminster's chronic failure to fund and support the Borders Agency;
People voted Leave out of ignorance.
Plenty of people voted Leave out of ignorance.