Zany and Vinny's Brexit revisited

And regarding "foisted".
When the electorate are not given a vote on something which is pushed through anyway, that something is foisted.

Increased alcohol taxes were foisted upon us by the EEC, EEC and then EU tariffs were foisted upon us, the CAP, the CFP, the first, second, third and fourth railway packages were foisted upon us, EU military staff were foisted upon us, EU foreign policy including FTAs with dictatorships were foisted upon us. EU energy market policies were foisted upon us including the coal phaseout which has caused havoc for steel producers.

The ship building industry suffered severe harm as a result of the EU's predecessor, the EEC ending subsidies in 1990.

It may be an important market, but it's not well run, desperately needs reform and David Cameron failed to achieve reform.

And our government were forced to accept all these things unwillingly. 

Like the poll tax? Lol. The ability of majority governments with minority support to foist things upon us has long been a problem inherent to our own flawed FPTP system. This is not the fault of the EU. Though it did mean that our governments could more easily foist upon us things emanating from there which a majority of our own people might not have supported. The reverse could also be true though in terms of our government blocking things emanating from there that a majority of us might have supported, like Major's blocking of the social chapter, which Labour under Blair introduced later anyway.

Labour itself of course foisted upon us full freedom of movement without giving an apparent hoot about the detrimental impact such an influx of cheap labour would have in keeping pay down whilst driving rents and house prices up. Something which did more than anything else to drive the previously Labour supporting working classes into the arms of Farage and Brexit, not helped by the Labour habit of dismissing legitimate concerns about the adverse economic impacts as racism. 

This did more than anything else to destroy Labour's red wall seats. I still don't think Labour today - filled as it is by middle class aspirational types - yet fully understands this even now. And are in consequence more likely to regard the working classes as the scum of the earth rather than the salt of the earth. And thus tend to see the working class and their needs as a problem to be managed rather than of working people deserving of a better deal. Not all in Labour think like this of course, but quite a few do. I knew some personally as a former party member in my own locale.

Like the poll tax? Lol. The ability of majority governments with minority support to foist things upon us has long been a problem inherent to our own flawed FPTP system. This is not the fault of the EU. Though it did mean that our governments could more easily foist upon us things emanating from there which a majority of our own people might not have supported. The reverse could also be true though in terms of our government blocking things emanating from there that a majority of us might have supported, like Major's blocking of the social chapter, which Labour under Blair introduced later anyway.