What’s becoming clear is that things change if we do. Reform UK has broken the mould in Wales and Scotland, and now threatens to do the same in England.
This marks an exit from another sort of EU – the EU of local dominance and central control.
The way it worked since the 1970’s is not simply through our compliance. This didn’t exist in some places. It worked by EU networkers in our political parties.
This is what made it so hard. Thatcher in particular felt the immediate pull to Europe as a Conservative, and not as a citizen of the UK or of Europe.
The Brexit reality is a disconnect from Brussels and a hooking up of the UK to its own sources of power and influence. Whereas they lay dormant before, they now rise to action for us.