Richard North
EU Referendum: none of your business

There are no benefits which we gain by virtue of UK membership of the EU that are not open to us through other means. Thus, the game played by the CBI is a classic application of the misdirection technique. This “fat cat” organisation wants to keep us focused on the wrong issues, fighting on the battleground of their choosing, where we can be defeated on detail.

In fact, this coming referendum is an opportunity to correct a historical error, where the British nation joined in a dangerous experiment in political integration, in the mistaken belief that it would solve our domestic problems and improve our standing in the world.

With the passage of time, the magnitude of that error has become more and more apparent. And if final stages of integration – already on the drawing board – are allowed to unfold with Britain still a member of the EU, we will discover to our great cost that we are trapped in a nightmare from which there is no escape.

Thus, we need to ignore CBI propaganda about “benefits” that are ours to enjoy outside the EU, and focus on the real issues. People need to know that the fate of their nation is at stake. We should reject the attempts of the self-serving corporates of the CBI to distract us, and focus on what is important to us.

Basically, all the CBI fat cats are interested in is their “bottom line”. The corporates think they can keep more cash by sticking close to their billionaire chums in Brussels, with not the slightest concern for the welfare for the British people and their interests.

While they offshore their profits to the lowest, and shadiest tax domains they can find, they weep crocodile tears about the dangers of leaving the EU. All they are actually doing is looking after their own interests, and tell any number of lies to get their way.

In fact, how we the people are governed is no business of business. No matter how big and important they think they are, no “fat cat” has any more votes than any other individual. And it is what the people think that matters. Democracy, not corporate greed, is what matters.

To that effect, we must define the issues in this referendum campaign – not the “fat cats” who are trying to use their influence to distort to debate in order to line their pockets with our cash. They live happily with dictators and want for us a “rip-off Britain” in the knowledge that pickings are easiest when democracy is weak. To us, our democracy must come before the fat-cat pay-cheques and pension pots.

The fat cats need to mind their own business, and keep their greedy mitts out of our politics.