An open apology.

What a fool I was. I acted like an uneducated small minded moron.

I foolishly voted to leave the EU. The most important vote I will ever have -perhaps- in my lifetime and I blew it.

My whole life I can barely remember any good news regarding the European Union. So much of the British media only reports nothing but negative. This stuff soaks into your psyche and whether you want it to or not it does go towards forming your world view.

I'm an avid reader of books, but lets be honest I've never come across any on the EU and how it works. They will be out eventually but in the context of history.

So a lifetime of negativity about the EU and then posh boy Cameron -just to destroy the UKIP voter who would otherwise vote conservative- gives me a vote on staying or leaving the EU. Wise decision indeed!

I had very little information at hand about any good aspects of EU membership; and Christ I had loads of bad information on the evil that is the EU.

Yes of course I could have listened to the very wise people shouting at me and belittling me to vote remain. Eddie Izzard,Bob Geldoff,Gary Linekar and oh so many more. Why did I not listen to these 'highly educated and worldly wise celebrities'?

Of course they were backed up by other giants of society such as Cameron and Ozbourne. Inbred Etonians must know what they are talking about !

There really was a huge amount of brain power talking down to me and telling me I was a racist,xenophobic, nationalist and a little Englander,

Why did I not listen to my betters!

Looking back with hindsight the answer is pretty obvious now. After a lifetime of negativity of the EU and then getting told how to think by celebrities it is all so clear now. I know what I should have done...

All I had to do to get the facts about the EU was go to the airport and book a ticket to Brussels.

Then all I had to do was go the European parliament.

Then I just had to ask to see the accounts to see how much the UK gave them.

Then I just had to go and read every piece of legislation that they have ever produced to see if it was good or bad.

Then I could have spent a few days hanging around parliament and see exactly how it works.

Then I just had to wander myself in and have a meeting with the commissioners and see exactly what they did.

Then I could have had a working lunch with Schultz and his cronies and find out about what they did and how they get elected.

Then I just had to get on a few flights and go and visit all the other member states and have a word with their governments and see what their relationship with the EU was like and how much they paid in and got out.

I suppose then I could have popped over to Germany and asked Angela Merkel why she took it on herself and encouraged thousands of refugees to risk their lives heading through Europe to Germany. And the immense pressure it has put on the southern countries, not to mention the thousands of deaths of these desperate refugees caused by her holding out a virtue signalling prize of utopia. A cynical person could say- she only did it to show the world 'hey forget about that little moustachioed psycho who took Europe into war and killed millions of Jews . Us Germans [and especially me] are really really really nice now; trust us.

A cynical person could say that.

So' then after my little fact finding jaunt around Europe and getting the truth about the EU I could have come home and shared my new found knowledge with my circle of friends and family. There you go. job done . We're still members and everything is fine and dandy. No Brexit. No absolute shambles from May's government ;everything remains the same.