Two referenda

Welp.

So. I'm an Irish immigrant living in Scotland.

Traditionally, every time Ireland has an EU referendum we do it again six months later. That's not what this post is about.

Vote Remain

So here's the reason I finally got a blog. I am afraid that the UK is about to make our worst mistake since the Munich Agreement, and the official Remain campaign is a shambles.

This referendum would not even be happening if David Cameron was either responsible or competent (both would be best, but we can't expect too much from a Tory). As others have rightly noted, he's offloaded his problems with his backbenchers onto the British public instead of dealing with them as leader of his party. In doing so, he's normalised fascist discourse in the UK mainstream. I suspect that the referendum pledge is one part of the manifesto he had intended to dump as part of a new coalition deal with the Lib Dems, but having stumbled into a majority he was stuck with it.

That's a digression, though. This post is about how we're better off in the hands of Brussels than in the hands of Westminster.

I'm an adult in 2016 and I've never blogged before. But it's probably better than telling all my opinions to my cat, right?