RE: UK Brexit, questions from an American
June 16, 2016 at 7:06 am
(This post was last modified: June 16, 2016 at 7:17 am by Homeless Nutter.)
(June 16, 2016 at 6:26 am)Dystopia Wrote: That was the original idea... But... It's not working that well. Poorer states continue poorer and the EU organizations are dominated by the most powerful (economically and politically) states like Germany, France, etc.[...]
Wait... What? The "brexiters" trumpet all the time about UK being no 5 economy in the world (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co..._(nominal)
http://www.investopedia.com/articles/inv...nomies.asp)
and you're telling me, that it can't have its voice heard in the EU, because it's not powerful enough?....
LOL... Well - which is it?
It's just bullsh*t, IMHO. Xenophobia is in fashion right now, thanks to ISIS and such, so the nationalistic politicians have been able to grab the opportunity, stir the paranoia and become visible again.
Yeah - I keep hearing about excessive immigration and stuff and yet every London restaurant I've worked in for the past 10 years has been desperate for kitchen staff, to the point where they pay £500-£1000 to anyone, that will recommend a friend to work there for 3 months. Where are those hordes of migrant workers from EU, looking to steal the jobs... that the native Brits evidently don't want to do?
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
