Quite so Mike, None of their business really. As we are on the toptc of the foreign viewpoint here is another take, part of an article I found on the net.
The most vocal advocates are far-right parties in other EU capitals. “Brexit would be marvellous”, Marine Le Pen enthuses, “it will be the beginning of the end of the European Union.” She is joined by a gaggle of xenophobic parties in other EU member states such as the Secretary General of the Italian Northern League, Matteo Salvini (known for his anti-Roma rhetoric), Tom Van Grieken, the leader of the populist right-wing Flemish Vlaams Belang (who wants to ban headscarved women from driving cars), Serb ultranationalist Vojislav Seselj, and Geert Wilders, who likes to compare Mohammed to the devil and the Quran to Mein Kampf.
Referendums can create strange bedfellows and one of the weirdest developments is the way that ISIS’s newsletter seems to echo some of the claims of Europe’s most famous Islamophobes. One former foreign fighter notes that ISIS would see Britain’s departure as a first step in the destruction of the European Union, which they see as a successor to the Roman Empire. Daesh’s newsletter al Naba boasted already after the Paris attacks that they had caused “the weakening of European cohesion, including demands to repeal the Schengen Agreement” and “mutual accusations between France and Belgium”.
Back in 1975, the attractiveness of the in campaign’s advocates was only half the picture – the other half was the unattractiveness of those who wanted Britain to leave. But even Enoch Powell’s biggest enemies would agree that he appears quite attractive compared to the international figures that support Brexit.
Instead of looking at the Who’s Who of British politics, it may hence be more relevant what the international “Good, Bad, and Ugly” have to say. British voters should ask themselves: whose advice do you want to take – from the leader of the free world, our closest allies, and the emerging economies we will trade with in the future? Or from Marine Le Pen, ISIS, and Vladimir Putin? It is an irony of the Referendum campaign that the most important
Ultimaiely it is us who will decide, but will that decision be based upon whats best for Britain or a desire to cut immigration, much of which comes from outside the EU. The 1.3 million brits currently living abroad won't even get a vote. I suspect from what I have read so far the Little Englanders will prevail and do so because of an inability to see the bigger picture, they believe that working with partners to create change is not possible and that somehow we will plough our own furrow using oxen of course . 🙂
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