Wednesday, May 25, 2016

#Brexit?

Myth 1. Exiting Europe will solve the refugee crisis. How? Since when has less cooperation helped anything? Britain takes hardly any to begin with, what may happen is that France and others may decide to let migrants cross their borders and let UK border patrol deal with them, with constant cuts to the UK border patrol, good luck with that!
Myth 2. Too many Europeans are a drag on the welfare system. EU migrants pay far far far more in tax than they get in welfare, wait until the 5m Brits living in Europe are forced to return home, then see a drag on welfare!
Myth 3. The UK pays £350m per week to Europe and this could be used to fund the NHS. That figure has been proven again and again to be absolutely false, it is £120m per week. Yes, that sounds a lot, but once you take away the farming subsidy and the EU grants for low income communities such as Birmingham, Glasgow, Liverpool and others it gets much lower. Also, do we want another Yugoslavia or Albania on our doorstep? European aid is used to help poorer areas, so that they don't become areas of despair and nationalism, this is done to protect us as well as help them. This aid will not stop whatever the outcome.  The Tories and the UKIP leader want to privatise the NHS, Farage has said this many times publicly, he is an ex city stockbroker after all!
Myth 4. Hitler invented the EU and our fallen soldiers will be turning in their graves. The EU was formed as the dust of 2 world wars settled as a way for Europeans to work together instead of fighting, which has worked absolutely, no EU member has ever fought another EU member. Both world wars were fought for the peace of the continent, the soldiers who gave their precious lives would have rested easy as we worked together peacefully for the last 40 years.
Myth 5. Britain will be economically better off. This is the biggest myth, the US and China and India have already stated that they will put the UK to the back of any trade deals a little like how Tesco deals with small suppliers, agree to our terms or sell elsewhere. The WTO deals were made with the EU as a block not with little England. The UK will need to renegotiate with Europe too and they will drive a hard bargain, why wouldn't they? Think Eurovision then you will have an idea how 27 Euro countries will treat any trade deals. The IMF, WTO, World Bank, The London School of Economics, The Economist, even The Bank Of England have strongly advised against the UK leaving, but Farage apparently knows better, doesn't  that worry you?
Good luck, you are gonna need it!