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Remainers would do better to engage with these arguments
You can't engage with them at the minute (or at least, it's a waste of effort to do so), because there's a more urgent European elephant in the room that needs dealing with first.
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But you’re not going to win leavers over to your side if your response to their substantive concerns is ‘you’re making this up’.
My worry is that we have a 2nd referendum and no one learns the mistakes of the first: everyone just goes around pretending the EU is brilliant and generally patronising the fuck out of everyone who doesn’t agree with them.
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You can’t parse Eurocrats?
People have legit concerns about the democratic deficit in the EU. The Commission is enormously powerful, but unelected. The Council is a concentrate of European executive power. Between them, the EU Commission and the ECB - with a little help from the IMF - ravaged the Greek economy, and rolled over a democratically elected socialist government whilst it was at it. What was their mandate to do so? Is it any wonder these institutions are regarded with suspicion?
Remainers would do better to engage with these arguments rather than to dismiss them out of hand.