But it needs people like you then to explain it to those that haven't studied as best as possible in detail...maybe not on this forum lol...
You've just given the headlines and then basically said..."but you wouldn't really understand"
That is exactly what the political elite and campaigners have done so far...pat on the head and say "leave it to those who know and just take my word for it"
That leaves people making decisions based on emotion and personality...which is where both camps have dragged it down to.
That's not to say you aren't trustworthy mate...but a little trust needs to be given to people if asked to vote on something so important.
The Remain camps claims have been so increasingly exaggerated and apocalyptic to become parody; that when they say things that are actually true with no detail, it just gets thrown into the lies box . Its shows a fear that mystifies me. The Brexiteers can't put forward an alternative because it doesn't exist until after the fact. It is a serious weight around their neck. This should have been so much easier for Remain but they went into the soundbite battle instead.
Remain will win but the way it went about it will cause a lot of damage to the relationships internally.
Sorry haha it was more I had had a glass of red too many.
I would agree that the Remain campaign has been pretty awful... and our wonderful politicians have been doing it for years.
Issue is the thing being put to referendum imo... it's such a major change that you have to, but it's such a complicated change that the experts themselves struggle with it!
My fear is the anti-EU vote taps into the growing nationalistic trend in England... that people will vote out to feel like they're making themselves safer.
I think the remain campaign should have been a practical run through of all the EU has done for us. Monty Python style.
I'll give one example... the most famous ECJ case is
Van Gend en Loos - a Dutch case. Essentially the company were trading chemicals across the freedom of movement zone and the Dutch reclassified a chemical into a higher customs bracket. The company complained and the case went the whole way through the Dutch system and on appeal to the ECJ.
The ECJ found the Dutch government had breached their obligation to lower customs tariffs under the Treaty of Rome.
But most importantly, the ECJ didn't just say the Dutch had done wrong and make them sort it out - they ordered the Dutch pay the company back the money they'd illegally taken from them.
This means that EU law has what's called 'direct effect' - any individual person can take an action for a breach of their EU given rights. That's a pretty big weapon to hold governments to account.
The court summed it up nicely - '
Independently of the legislation of member states, community law therefore not only imposes obligations on individuals but is also intended to confer upon them rights which become part of their legal heritage'.
So you can see an example of how the EU has added to our strong court system - it's also cemented the doctrine of proportionality into our common law.
