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In which case they are severely deluded.
Every (UK) Government has centralised, even while giving limited powers to local assemblies,
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each privatised sector of the economy now has the 'dead hand' of a regulator to oversee it.Did these acquaintances of yours ever vote for the WTO, or the UN or NATO come to that, let alone a myriad of other useful international bodies like the Universal Postal Union?
mespilus
I think people might be in danger of projecting opinions through their own bias.
The opinions of the few hardcore Brexit Tories I've spoken to really boil down to 2 issues;
1) small government and decentralisation - there is nothing bigger, and more centralised than the EU.
2) national pride and self determination - acceding the power to make laws independent of a supranational body is weak
At their core they seem to believe in the right of the individual, and that people should take personal responsibility.
I'm my limited pool they are much more ideologically driven than taking some sort of practical view of how to make money in the short term. All have unshakeable confidence in their, and the country's ability to succeed.