You make a small, but very significant error there sir when you say “Britain joins the common market (EU)”
The common market was the common market. The EU is the EU. They are entirely different things.
Here’s another version:
Britain votes to join the common market.
All members work together towards the goal of a common market for member countries.
After a few years, this goal changes to a goal of ‘ever greater unity’ and central federal control over sovereign states. The changes are small, gradual, incremental. But cumulatively they are massively fundamental / principle changes. No one has ever voted on the individual changes, never mind the fundamental / principle changes.
Britain says “we don’t like this, this has become something entirely different to what we voted for, we’d like to suggest some changes”. The 27 other states tell the British leader to “f*ck off, we’re not changing anything” and he goes home empty handed, humiliated, and defeated.
Faced with membership of a federal agenda they did not want, and will not change, the British public reluctantly vote to leave.
The 27 other states all blame lying British politicians and an uneducated racist British public.
No one... NO ONE... asks why nearly 18 million people in the EUs second largest economy felt this way.
