Drew J Jones:

I still don't understand what the hell the Brits are on about.

The privileged elite (at least, part of it) firmly believes they'll get a free-trade deal à la Switzerland or Norway that will allow them to enjoy all the benefits of EU access without the encumbrances: Britain demands. The EU will comply.

Dr Wolfgang (and others) might disagree.

A lot of it is the continuation of the right wing divide and conquer policy. In the US the xenophobia is targeted at minority groups. In the UK, it's targeted in all sorts of ways, and filthy Europeans are a natural part of that. And the tabloid media base their sales on screaming at someone - the garlic and wine swilling continentals are a historic target.

The referendum is as much about internal Tory manoeuvres for power as any disagreements.  

>I think Greece's insistence on remaining in the common currency is, far and away, the most likely avenue to unleashing a fascist regime

You say that like it's a bad thing.

>I still don't understand what the hell the Brits are on about.

The Brits are being sold a glorious return to proud imperial sovereignty, with no more bullying by greasy foreigners, and a Cross of St George and a white van for all.

The reality is the Tories want to sell off education and health care to the Americans, and also turn the UK into a capitalist paradise with as few worker protections as possible. The EU - even though it's an appalling mess - might get in the way of that.

So it's a toxic combination of little Englander rhetoric and the usual business interests.

A sizeable percentage of the UK population is violent, stupid, ignorant, and selfish, and trying to explain how they're caught between Wall St and Frankfurt realpolitik is like trying to teach a five year old something really hard, like basic hygiene.

I was expecting a Bremain vote, but the unexpectedly timely arrival of the Panama papers and a corresponding anti-Cameron propaganda blitz makes me suspect that the official plan is now to push for Brexit, replace Cameron with a quasi-Fascist hardliner, and lean on the unparalleled awesomeness of the UK to negotiate a favourable deal, which will be welcomed by everyone left in the EU, because Britain, fuck yeah.

By the time the slumbering masses wake up to the fact that immigration is continuing thanks to special visa waivers for cheap labour, and all the family silver has been sold off to Wall St, and the land-owning aristocracy is getting substitute CAP payments direct from Westminster, it will be too late.