If the UK is a small insignificant island, why are the world elite fighting for IN?

We're the world's 4th biggest economy. We are by no stretch insignificant, do you have any proof of IN campaigners calling the UK that? Because I've certainly not seen it.

All the time we hear the IN campaigners so the UK is pointless, irrelevant, small and useless, that to go alone would make us nothing. Yet the elite whether from America, China, India or Europe are begging for the voters to vote IN. If they didn't care why would they make a speech?

I am confused, why do they care so much if we are insignificant and small?

@Fullofsurprises hey FoS, this is similar to the post you've recently posted about elites

As I said, I think this is a war between two groups of oligarchs. Both sides think the "elites are against them".

“We’ve discovered that Britain is easily replaceable in China’s European foreign policy. Moreover, Britain is no longer any kind of ‘big country,’ but merely a country of old Europe suitable for tourism and overseas study, with a few decent football teams.” It could hardly have been put more plainly.

http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/opinions/how-china-really-sees-us



Perhaps not insignificant, but demeaning nevertheless.

English is China’s second language and the UK continues to attract Chinese students, but being outside the Schengen Area has meant that the bulk of the rapidly-growing Chinese tourist traffic goes elsewhere: 149,000 Chinese tourists visited the UK last year, compared to France’s 1.1m.

In any case, are we now saying that any indication of a country falling short in some fields and/or being less significant to another power on the other side of the world is 'talking down'? Are we really that insecure that we can't tolerate any recognition?

I genuinely hope no one takes the Communist Party's opinion at face value.

All the time we hear the IN campaigners so the UK is pointless, irrelevant, small and useless, that to go alone would make us nothing.

It seems to be almost exclusively an internal battle of the English (not British) right and particularly between the hard Thatcherites and the merely neo-Thatcherites.

It's depressing to be called on to make a major national vote to settle what is an obsession of about 0.01% of the people and about 2% of the political class as a whole. We voters are in a similar position to the medieval peasants who were dragooned into battles between nobles of the Holy Roman Empire or the like - without the least understanding of the cause, with no stake in the victory and with their lives on the line, they humbly and cluelessly followed their Lord into battle to be slaughtered.

Sorry but you're so clueless and prvileged it's actually incredible.

Ukip got almost 4 million votes in the last election, many of these in the urban north. This is why the Labour party is going to die, it still has no recognition that it has sold out its old voter base for the urban middle class.

You're fighting a dead horse.

Most political issues are decided by 2% of the electorate, if we're going to use ridiculous examples the French resistance consisted of about 2% active fighters. Should we call Vichy France and have them come back since no one cares?