Originally Posted by
RonnieBird
No. You're not getting this are you ?
Brexit is about national independence and all the rest is incidental.
Historically , once a substantial group start demanding independence , it eventually comes to be, often by military means.
You might not be aware, for example , that opinion in Ireland was pretty evenly split before Home Rule, however when independence happened , those who'd wanted to remain under British rule soon accepted it - this is because they would be the less adventurous people who feared change and wanted to maintain the status quo, ( that means the way things are ).
Had the republicans, or nationalists been defeated on the Bill, they wouldn't have forgotten their aims, as we see and have seen in Northern Ireland, which remained in the UK, but where despite being a minority, the Nationalists have continued an armed struggle to this very day.
Similar events can be observed in the former 'American Colony', Kenya, Cyprus, India etc etc ad inf. Nor is it new thing - Dace, Palmera or Germania in the Ancient World would tell the same story and exhibit the same patterns.
It's what invariably happens in the affairs of man, and what I want to happen has nothing to do with it.
The whole point of studying History , ( properly), is to observe these patterns of human behaviour, which don't alter, and perhaps avoid some of the unpleasant outcomes which happen when uneducated men take the helm and steer us back toward war and carnage.
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