I’ll sit here in the early hours of the morning this Friday, listening to the results of the referendum as they arrive, and it seems that those who had campaigned to Britain came out of ‘European Union have managed to achieve what seemed impossible. There is no denying that the establishment has done absolutely everything possible to keep Britain in the European Union, and yet somehow the message of those who proposed to escape, a message of hope, of optimism for the future of Great Britain as an independent nation, return to a genuine parliamentary democracy, was in tune with the people.
the message on twitter on the morning of vote: I know it will be many to struggle to understand what happened. There will be those who will liquidate the vote since the work of racists and bigots. I consider myself very lucky to have lived an unconventional life, and therefore I am fortunate to know people from all sorts of backgrounds. Being a writer, I like to listen, because I know that the best stories, the best characters are based on truth. In recent years I have been listening to many different people; rich, poor, unemployed, self-employed, disabled, people with all kinds of ethnic background, and paying their listening, there are two things that were obvious.
The first is that all of them were surprisingly well informed. Internet has democratized information, so governments can not presume to be able to lie or manipulate at your own convenience. People take and goes in search of the facts themselves. I spoke to a wide, unusual range of people who have even given the time to read long pieces of the Lisbon Treaty, a document that once would have been for the exclusive use and consumption of public officials and lawyers of international law. And people with the facts in hand would never have been convinced by the EU trademark – that is, the idea that the European Union is intrinsically good and right. They had access to a sufficient amount of information to know that the EU is not all jokes and jokes, and that under it has consumed a period of tremendous difficulties and decline.
The second thing to myself become obvious it is that people knew that he was losing their democratic rights. This affects not only the EU. They feel the pressure of globalization, the lobbying, the zero-hour contracts, welfare cuts. They see the individual become more and more tiny cog in bigger and bigger machines. Democracy is the only way we can protect ourselves from these huge machines, and many people are particularly aware of the fact that the EU membership has led to a compression of our democratic rights.
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If waking up you will feel disappointed by the vote for the exit, and you’ll want to blame your fellow citizens as bigots and racists , you will not have missed the point, and run the risk of doing a disservice to your country. If we yell from one slogan on both sides of a groove, there will never be a way to understand each other. There will never be a way of coming together to build a better future, then it is ultimately what we all want. Go talk to someone who has voted to quit the EU. Confront them, and what you’ll hear from them will be very different from the way they were represented during the campaign. Most of those voters who I got to know speak of equality, rights, responsibility and democracy – and I know many, who voted in that sense. If you still find it hard to understand why the people voted to leave, I can recommend the following articles, you can find them here and here. And then my articles, you can read here and here.
This article (click here) instead I wrote immediately after the election of Jeremy Corbyn, begging him to let out the Labour Party from its dogmatic EU membership. At the time, I do not think they were in many to have understood what was at stake. Labour should be grateful for the vote to leave, which may have saved the party from the worst humiliation, the next general election. I applaud those Labour MPs who campaigned to get out. I know how difficult it is to defend what you believe when the majority of their peers are placed on the other side of the debate. I also welcome those conservatives who have defied their own government by voicing concerns of the majority of people in Britain. And despite not approve of their tactics, or some of their messages, I applaud all’Ukip for having fought so hard to make this referendum a reality.
One of my American followers on twitter asked me how come so many people in the UK struggling to understand the motives of a vote to leave, and I have found myself comparing it to the birth of Beat Generation . There was a time when the American mainstream simply could not understand the movement of the counter-culture, and I think something similar happened here. There is a huge change that is affecting Europe, driven by the increased access to information, from the perception that our politicians have deceived us over and over again, and the feeling that we are seen simply as cogs in the service of powerful machines. There is a deep conviction that people deserve better, that the status quo simply is not enough in itself. What seems certain is that our exit from the EU will trigger demands for reform throughout the continent.
As for Britain, I sincerely hope that the European issue has been resolved once and for all. Although the referendum has put a period at issue, however, this does not indicate the beginning of a huge process of change. We must make sure to leave the European Union in the right way. We must be vigilant and ensure that the process is handled appropriately, and that our output is treated with care, in harmony, not only with our European neighbors, but also with all the nations that make up the United Kingdom.
Instead of being afraid, the people that is at the two extremes of the debate on the referendum must be found to seize this enormous opportunity. We have an unprecedented opportunity to reshape our social landscape, political and legal, and I hope that the British to unite to work together with the shared aim of building a better future for us all.
(…) The first thing I want to do in a Britain reformed will get some sleep ‘. And when I wake, I pray that it was not all a dream.
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This post has been published for the first time on the Huffington post United Kingdom and was then translated from English by Stephen Pitrelli
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