Quote Originally Posted by poop
What about all the other parts of the country who voted Remain?
Remember I'm a nationalist, not a countyist or a townist or a houseist.

The nation is the limit of democratic freedom for me. Democracy is not perfect, it's just the best system we have, and all democracies are not equal, some are more democratic than others.

UK democracy is an excellent example of how it's not perfect, far from it. We're a union of nations, so the largest nation politically dominates the smaller nations, causing problems. Are those problems worth it? Probably, but that's easy for me to say coming from the politically dominant side. However, we're culturally close enough that a political union can work, and has worked for a long time.

That isn't true of Europe. We're not culturally similar, we have different languages and different ways of life. We have common values which makes us allies and economic partners, but we don't have a common culture. So it's much harder for a political union to work in the interests of everyone.

I've always said I'm in favour of economic integration, just not political. We work as partners. But when they're setting the terms in which we can trade, when they're setting the trade laws that apply in the UK, that is political dominance.

Is economics worth more than sovereignty? I don't think so, you do.

Nationalism = thoughtless flag-shagging. Got it.
Oh wait, no you don't understand nationalism at all. You just see the worst of it and assume that's what it is.

Well, by your logic you must think everyone called Adolf is an evil dictator.