Vote Leave Give Control

All the visible notions of the above campaign group it seems to me are intended towards, a continuation of the main political narrative of the UK Government and Establishment battling 'the big EU' over "the way the British do things with plucky spirit and much vim," in Britain but reluctantly accepting 'the coolly, rational case' for conceding some powers to a Supranational EU.

This has been a constant of the British Government since the early 1960's and Vote Leave it seems to me continue this two-faced role of the UK Government looking both to Brussels at the same time as talking a "different game" to the UK Electorate: Controlling THEM.

Brexit The Movie: More "plucky crap."

Some brief examples:-

• Fake figures around the NHS
• Johnson's appeal to Nazis/Hitler
• Bonfire of Regulations
• Sheer Confidence alone will conquer negotiations 
• Waving the Immigration Stick for agitation effect

All the work of Vote Leave and also the perfect demonstration of "inferiors" in both:-

• Authority
• Competence
• Comparison of sources of prestige 

And of course if you do agree with this minor jottings of the descriptions of Vote Leave and the effects they naturally lead to, just consider how much this is multiplied in error by both Remain (with puffed out chests) and by Leave (with little actual intelligence but tribal mores as bad as they claim Remain to suffer from).

Likewise on the Remain side we've had an endless parade of prestige:-

• Barack Obama (President of the USA)
• Jeremy Corbyn (Labour leader)
• Mark Carney (Bank of England Governor)
•  Christine Lagarde (Managing Director of the IMF)
• David Cameron, Gordon Brown, John Major (past and present PMs)

I think taken TOGETHER, we see that Vote Leave is PLAYING TO THE PRESTIGE of the above perfectly, showing inferior behaviour in indirect methods. Whether or not it's intentional or not it is irrelevant, it's systemic both ways.

What I find remarkable is that for many people who don't feel confident about voting due to their information and knowledge levels, then they will tend towards resisting notions of:-

• Take Then Give in preference to Give Then Take ("Give & Take") 

My suggestion is this, Vote Leave is systemically designed to fail the Leave case for voting to leave the EU Referendum. They focus on taking not on leaving and in this taking world, firstly (1) they invite fantasy then (2) they ensure people feel as if "taking" (without feeling comfortable on the balance of the relationship) is perhaps a "rash" decision of violation against neighbours that may lead to wrongs and hence it feels safer to "keep the peace"...

What's been neglected is the case to build up that the EU is doing the TAKING:-

Boris Johnson generates more bubble politics/Babel-17 from citing Hitler instead of holding up this paper concerning the EU's future plans or indeed it's key proponents preferences for it's members.

From such a position, we should see that the UK has been a generous and benefactor nation to the EU since we joined in the early 1970's and has GIVEN a lot to the EU. But it's time for the UK to take a commanding role on the Single Market outside the Political Union and thereby give the world a boost to trade and positive global influence. Given the EU has chosen to take more powers, it's time for it to GIVE goodwill back to the UK if the UK chooses democratically to leave: Quoting Dr. RAE North at EUReferendum.com:-

EU Referendum: challenging the collective delusion 

"The oddest thing of all is that, in devising our original scenario, we adopted the line taken by the British negotiating team in its successful attempt to enter the European Community in 1972.

In his report on the negotiations, Con O'Neill wrote a very telling piece on how he came to define his strategy. "First", he said:

…almost every conceivable Community policy or rule or enactment is the resultant of a conflict of interests between the members, and has embedded in it features representing a compromise between these interests. Open it up at any point, and the whole laborious compromise will fall apart …

Second, as in all negotiations, exceptions are dangerous, for they create precedents. Admit a change in this or that case, just because British arguments are strong and you will find it hard to resist changes in other cases where the matter is vital. So the two facets of the Community's principle became embodied in one precept: "Swallow the lot, and swallow it now".

On this basis, the character of the negotiations became one of leaving "relatively minor" matters to be settled after the UK had joined the Community while, in order to expedite the negotiations, the governing precept became, "Swallow the lot …".

Given the two-year time limit and "sudden death" character of the Article 50 negotiations, which would determine the exit settlement for the UK, it seemed to me that the precept which had facilitated our entry could do equal services in assisting us to leave the EU.

My reasoning in this respect was entirely straightforward. It would be far better to gain an exit settlement which was less than optimal than to end up with the catastrophic outcome of leaving without an agreement.

Furthermore, and crucially, I took that view that, unless we were able to show that compromise was possible, we would never secure the confidence of the electorate, and their support in the referendum. In effect, we either convinced the electorate that we were prepared to compromise on our exit expectations, or we would lose the referendum.

Such insight, of course, stems to a very great part from the intensive labour, with Christopher Booker, in researching and writing The Great Deception. And you might have thought that this might afford us some authority when it came to defining the referendum strategy."

I think Dr. North's logic is sound. But as important I'd extend, the attitude is cooperative and the communication is simplified and hence: The problem of LEAVING the EU is above all else:

IDENTIFIED:-

FLEXCIT: The Movie

EUReferendum: The Pub Question

The EU Referendum Question - Visualized

During the filming of FLEXCIT: The Movie, the question was asked:-

A Visual Aid To Shared Attention During Discussions - Available on All Good Smart Phones (!)

"How do you explain the EU Referendum to anyone if you are talking to them in the Pub?"

Which is to say, how can you talk about the EU Referendum and explain to anyone to help them understand the headline issues and hence persuade them how to vote? As Dr. RAE North pointed out, there's a limit to how much you can simplify or "dumb down" a subject as complex as this. But I think establishing some fundamentals using a visual aid to create context to either choice is a possible substitute?

Afterall in the pub we can use our smartphones to tell us the directions of somewhere on a map (google maps for example) or we can use google to find the answer to a pub quiz question too (if we are cheating!). So why not an EU Referendum Question, as well?

I produced the above video in under 2 minutes as the most summarized overview of the EU Referendum using the "Map Argument" or "Decision Flow Diagram" approach, in both cases to visualize the context around each question and provide the necessary headlines should people wish to learn more and I've included a visual of the information that is:-

• Readily available to anyone on the internet to use to inform themselves.
• Readily available to the Legacy News-Media and politicians who in the main continue to ignore and not use such wealth of information and hence continue to perpetrate a disservice on the citizens of the UK.
• The sources have been selected for quality and for the essential fact they are all holistic: They all work together to create a complete and definitive argument structure on both sides of the question.

I think ultimately people are most interested in the Destination of the vote, and leaving the in between details to politicians and others to reassure and secure such complexity for people to then consider.

Afterall isn't that the job of the politicians and if they're not doing a good job or indeed failing at this vital job we have elected and paid them to perform in public service of representing the people... can we get rid of them?!