EU membership referendum

Poll cards have been arriving around the country for the coming referendum on the UK's membership of the EU. I quite like receiving such reminders; in the US, I think maybe I received a card relating to my annual voter registration but not one for specific elections.

Reminiscent of the oil-centric Scottish independence campaign I have thought that the remain campaign's arguments do not look far enough ahead: I think that many leave voters would accept an economic shock in return for more reassurance about the longer term. ( a fear may still be one of the EU superstate )

One might also wonder if the leave vote is coming in part from the long-established white British who miss a time when they had a good life and respect, maybe a little like the American Trump-voters angry and confused at their reversal of fortunes and the apparent power and prosperity of the strangers in their midst. Still, I shan't thus segue to the immigration debate in this entry.

( a concern is that of governance by those unlike us )

The above may emphasize the wrong questions: sure, the EU will tend to impose on us legislation we'd not have chosen for ourselves, probably increasingly so. Does that make it bad legislation? It still has voters at the roots and a more dilute voice may better insulate against national populist fads. I can't help but note that, while I wish to return to the US, indeed would still be living there now if not for my family, I am not a typical American, yet I will agree to submit myself to the laws they choose and will indeed consider many of those laws to be in my interest.