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This young LGBT lawyer is not your average Brexiteer.
When the British government officially filed divorce papers Wednesday to leave the European Union, Darren Grimes awoke a happy camper.
I am extremely optimistic about our future chances outside in the world, I think Brexit chimes and the draft law repealing have a great opportunity to make the changes our country needs.
Grimes, the deputy editor of the site Brexit Central is not your average Brexiteer He's 23, a former student of fashion and a defender of LGBT rights is also a founder of the anti-EU campaign beleave.
I come from a liberal persuasion, Grimes says that I am a gay man.
It is a family of the working class in the northeast of England an area the highest unemployment in the UK and an average salary lower than other parts of the country, it is a region that voted overwhelmingly to leave the EU.
My grandfather was a miner, my mother works in the public sector My brother is unemployed for a long time, Grimes said, I see how people feel out of control of their own lives, and they feel that there is a massive democratic deficit It was one of the main reasons why I began to think that the EU is not really progressive, liberal as I was raised to think it was.
In the European referendum last June, the holiday camp has gained about 52 percent, but according to exit polls, nearly 75 percent of 18 to 24 voted to stay Grimes says most of his millennials colleagues been sold a bill of goods.
We haven t been a day since the United Kingdom had not been in the European Union, Grimes said they joined what was then the European Economic Community in January 1973.
My generation grew up being told that it is the EU give us all the money that the EU is the progressive bastion of liberal politics, but in reality it is the UK that's ahead of the curve on same-sex policies on women's rights, according to Grimes We were sold a pup, really.
He rejects the qualifying left of protectionist and xenophobic Brexiteers While conservative politicians like Nigel Farage and the UK Independence Party used the anti-immigrant rhetoric and racist tropes while campaigning for Brexit, Grimes said that the referendum was not on this subject.
Forget Nigel Farage, Grimes said I thanked him about the referendum, but I disagree with him on almost every issue, including its referendum campaign.
Grimes said the vote was really self-determination In fact, the debate focused on controlling He said: Yes, let's have immigration, but let's have our parliamentarians, our legislators in charge of coming here and how many people come here, Grimes CLAIMED Not once did I hear anyone say, Look, we will close the borders s, s we beat a retreat the world stage.
Grimes stresses not anti-immigrant, I'm quite the opposite of a bigot or a racist, he said.
In fact, he sees Brexit as an opportunity to have a more open and flexible migration policy, I would ideally like to see a more liberal immigration system that discriminates against doesn t the rest of the world, for example, he said his friends in Pakistan and Canada can not come to the UK unless they earn more than 40,000 pounds a year, I think the art incredibly unfair that anyone with an EU passport is a kind of right divine to be here, I could not understand how the free movement could be presented as a liberal internationalist policy when it discriminates against people from non-European countries.
On Wednesday, the United Kingdom has delivered a letter to Brussels to launch a process of dissolution two years, some EU leaders have warned that the separation could bring European Council President Donald Tusk told reporters, he n 'there is no reason to claim that it is a happy day, he stressed that the priority is to reduce costs for EU citizens and Member States, which means that negotiations with the UK could be difficult.
French President François Hollande has said all Brexit is emotionally painful for Europeans, it will be economically painful for the British.
But Grimes said he is not worried, I think it is actually in the EU's interest to sign a trade agreement with the United Kingdom, due to the amount of German car exports to the United Kingdom the amount of French wine we buy Italian fashion and I think the economic realities, pragmatism, win in the end.
In addition to continuing cooperation with Europe, Grimes sees an opportunity to conclude free trade agreements pioneering worldwide Let s make these trade agreements with America, with the world's growth markets and which benefit our generation enormously, says Grimes.
We're more handcuffed in Europe, he said ten years, Grimes predicted, it will be considered as the best decision of the United Kingdom has since Margaret Thatcher I think we'll look back on this as a great moment in history British.
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