Avon Barksdale wrote:Rolluplostinspace wrote:It's an illusion though.
Nothing more than a soundbite.
Who rules has barely any impact on anyone.
Notice a taxi driver or window cleaner or teacher or copper ever suffer because of the EU?
Our EU where we were a main part of the law making process?
I see the above mentioned suffer everytime we get a Tory government though.
Having services is part and parcel of living in a modern all inclusive system or should be.
But every time the Tories are in office the above suffer.
You could argue many things are illusions but that doesn't take away from their importance in the hearts and minds of a population. When people from former colonies celebrate their independence from the British Empire it feels right and true to them for example and those metaphysical ideas and desires cannot be dodged.
I agree that materially though it is Government policy which has the most impact on people's day to day lives but there is another dimension above the material that people want to feel is being catered to and addressed.
The referendum was about what idea of a nation is and means to people as much as economics.
I put it all in the flag waving patriotic mentality department.
A department I've always tried to stay out of.
I know what you're saying and meaning.
I think it might be all due to centuries of conditioning by the rulers of nations.
I know when I've been out of the country home is home and I firmly know and feel where my home is.
Doing what Canny is doing in moving to another land I would find very difficult.
Bit of an adventure for a few years but I know I'd be pining for home.
So yes it is a strong feeling.
Maybe a primitive feeling.