A good summation of what's at stake in the Brexit vote:
Larry Elliott:
"Our investigations took us back to the last time Britain held a referendum on EU membership,
when during the cabinet discussions Tony Benn warned that Britain was
signing up for something that was undemocratic, deflationary and run in
the interests of big business. “I can think of no body of men outside
the Kremlin who have so much power without a shred of accountability for
what they do,” Benn said.
Benn’s dystopian vision proved entirely accurate. ...
A different Europe is needed, but it is stretching credibility to
imagine that the Europe of Greece and the Transatlantic Trade and
Investment Partnership can easily morph into America with the nice
people in charge. The eurozone is economically moribund, persists with
policies that have demonstrably failed, is indifferent to democracy, is
run by and for a small, self-perpetuating elite, and is slowing dying.
The wrong comparison is being made. This is not the US without the
electric chair; it is the USSR without the gulag."
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Brexit may be the best answer to a dying eurozone
Staying in the EU means hitching ourselves to an undemocratic project run by and for a remote elite
Illustration by Ellie Foreman-Peck
