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Giving up on the UK?

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During the last week I have seen posts on Facebook from a few significant people giving up on the UK.  Those people have been working to try to help the people of the UK see sense, some of them writing, some producing videos – all fact based – demonstrating the absurdity of Brexit. I share those feelings, so I understand them entirely, yet there is almost a sense of guilt attached.   John F Kennedy in a speech in 1961 paraphrased Charles F. Aked :  The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. ' On the other hand, those people leaving Germany in 1933 had got to the point they realised their own survival depended on it. For about a year I have believed the UK has passed tipping point . I keep hoping I am wrong, but sadly nothing in the last 12 months has convinced me that I am. I see the possibility of Scotland seceding as lifeboat for some; the reunification of Ireland for others and if Wales secedes yet more. Companies leavin