The EU doesn't protect workers' rights - it has destroyed them

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20. Neoliberalism is defined by...

...a general favoring of laissez-faire economic ideals, support for privatization, fiscal austerity, deregulation, turning over government programs to the private sector of the economy, and so-called free trade deals. This more-or-less defines the Tory's economic policies.

They are ALSO reactionary right wing populists, as you correctly labeled them. Their populism comes not from their economic policies, but from their populist appeals to social policies, such as anti-migrant and Euroskeptic sentiment.

We obviously don't know how things are going to turn out. However, I find it morally difficult to justify gambling with the lives of the people of the UK and the future stability of Europe, all in the hopes that something positive MIGHT happen. When the more reasonable alternative was always to remain, and begin building a liberal movement toward dramatic reform of the EU.