Like so many others, I reacted with stunned disbelief at the result of the Brexit vote. I think it’s the stupidest, dumbest political decision I have seen in my lifetime, truly a major disaster for our country. I don’t want to be a citizen of an insular, self-seeking, flag-waving country that postures as a world leader while being out of step with its 27 immediate neighbours and mistrusting anything foreign.
One of the strangest things about this strange week is that I arrived in Lomé on the morning the vote was announced and since then there has only been a minimal internet connection here. So I haven’t been able to access any news on the web, express my anger on Facebook, sign petitions or look up the links friends are sending me. I’m feeling curiously cut off from my home country at such an crucial time. I’m purposely writing this at 2am in the hope that it will post. Can’t wait to get back to the village where the technology is more reliable.
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Cornishmaninafrica 
Dear Davido,
Thank you for your latest email on Brexit. There are many others like you in the UK who feel the same, and the intensity of feeling concerning the result is only dying slowly. It is still very early days.
Can I put in another aspect? I am a Brexiter, and my love for Europe and our neighbours has in no way diminished. Neither has my delight in having them live in the UK with us all. Many (probably most) Brexiters feel the same, and the politicians do too.
My desire to be outside Europe is nothing to do with Europe – it is the /_Union_**/that many have found has become very difficult. The Common Market that brought us into the EU was great. It was a trading system that seemed good and wholesome in every way. Churchill agreed with it because he foresaw the advantage of not allowing Germany another opportunity to start a third world war. As it is they still dominate Europe. But Europe has become far more than the Common Market. It has ceased to be merely a trading arrangement and has become a political powerhouse. In addition, its aim is clearly stated as federalisation. They want a United States of Europe, which means that all nation states within it will lose their identity and their nationality. Moreover, the ruling authorities (the Commission) are an unelected secret society who cannot be removed from office. To me it has a sinister (to you, demonic) association, and I see it as dangerously close to being the centre from which the antichrist could easily emerge. Their legal tentacles now control the UK Legislature, and their courts can overrule all our Supreme Court decisions. Since we joined, we have had 56,235 (or so) laws imposed on us by the EU, at a rate of 80 a day (or is it week?). Norway and Iceland, outside the EU, have only retained 10% of those laws, Switzerland none. We have had no choice but to accept every one, including stupid ones like straight bananas and straight cucumbers.
A French lady on TV on Saturday said that the UK has been the brake on the EU ever since we joined. We have tried our hardest to change many of the basic parameters of the constitution, and all have been rejected. 70 times we put in alterations to the EU constitution and 70 times they were rejected. Our political agenda for Europe has never been the same as Europe’s agenda for itself. We have been a pain in the neck to Europe for decades, and they have been a pain in the neck to us. The French lady said “Now that the UK has left Europe, we can move forward unhindered.” They prefer us out just like, politically, most of us prefer to be out. As for changing the EU from within, it’s nonsense. We are (were) 1 in 28. We had a veto, but we had no greater influence than 3.57%, even though our financial contribution was enormous as we helped to provide the means whereby far too many failing economies around the continent were bailed out. The lady said that France was very close itself to a “Frexit” (as she called it) through Marine Le Pen, and Austria was within a hair’s breadth of going that way too in their last election.
For Eileen and me it was the prospect of accelerating the advent of the antichrist that tipped us out. We do not want the UK to be part of his domination, and we wanted to escape from the ever demanding tentacles of a secret society. The social implications that you have expressed do not necessarily exist, and they are the motivation of only a very few Brexiters. We prayed that the Lord would have His way in the results, and that He would make it very obvious what His will was. The result has confounded all. Isn’t that the Lord’s way? Can I counsel you to be careful in what you write, even though you feel strongly about it? Democracy is democracy. We accept political results because they are the will of the people (and through the people the will of the Lord) – just like the result of the last General Election was a great surprise to all, and there were many in the country who were as disappointed with it as you have been with the results of the referendum. We simply accept the will of the majority. It’s the spiritual perspective (the Lord’s will) that is uppermost in our minds. We cannot go back, and, in our view, it would be spiritually disastrous to go back inside the EU.
Love you, Dick