I am on the fence on the EU Referendum, and if that's still the case on 23rd June I will vote to stay, better the devil you know and all that, so now is your chance to convince me to vote to leave.
Immigration
EU immigration is not a big deal to me, if you come over here to claim in work benefits it means you are at least in work, the number of lazy British people I know happy to sit on the dole and pass on low paid work is a disgrace, so if EU migrants want to do the job natives don't want then I am all for it. I am more worried about non-eu migrants taking my job on dodgy T2 visa's or ICT, and being in or out of the EU has no reflection on this.
Security
The more you know the safer you are, I think it is a sign of how good MI5, SIS are etc that we have not seen a Paris/Brussels type attack here in the UK, being in or out will have no impact on security as HUMINT/SIGINT etc will still be passed around because it is in everyone's greater good, we will still be part of FIVE-EYES where I would assume more intelligence comes from than EU.
Sovereignty
Ok, this is an area which I think could be improved on, but given that we the UK are the only country that takes EU laws seriously why should we just not pick and choose the EU laws we want to adhere to, how many billions of euro fines did France simply ignore when they decided that EU laws were not in their interest. I would like to see a UK Bill Of Rights, as I think ECHR has too much say, but I do not see that happening very quickly post BREXIT.
Economy
I think we are better in, I do not believe the £55m a day figure, with the rebate and the £4bn a year paid back to farmers and poorer regions etc this is more like £25m a day it "costs" to be a member of the EU, its a fact of life that the richer countries pay more than the poorer countries, and I think the economy does well for the £25m a day.
I would like to see proper reform, less red tape for example, the discussion around the Govt. being unable to bail out TATA due to EU rules where as other countries have done similar (another example of some countries picking and choosing what they adhere too)
TITP
This is a big unknown, the fact that the trade agreement is being conducted in secret does not bode well, however most commercially sensitive negotiations take place behind closed doors, I think its highly unlikely that agreeing to TITP will mean the end of the NHS (some say the Tories have been doing this already without the need for TITP) but I think the NHS is too big to go down the route of full privatisation, as has been shown with PFI being brought into schools the areas where it didn't work quickly became apparent and were reversed, however the areas that could be modernised, could be improved upon has shown great success.
Immigration
EU immigration is not a big deal to me, if you come over here to claim in work benefits it means you are at least in work, the number of lazy British people I know happy to sit on the dole and pass on low paid work is a disgrace, so if EU migrants want to do the job natives don't want then I am all for it. I am more worried about non-eu migrants taking my job on dodgy T2 visa's or ICT, and being in or out of the EU has no reflection on this.
Security
The more you know the safer you are, I think it is a sign of how good MI5, SIS are etc that we have not seen a Paris/Brussels type attack here in the UK, being in or out will have no impact on security as HUMINT/SIGINT etc will still be passed around because it is in everyone's greater good, we will still be part of FIVE-EYES where I would assume more intelligence comes from than EU.
Sovereignty
Ok, this is an area which I think could be improved on, but given that we the UK are the only country that takes EU laws seriously why should we just not pick and choose the EU laws we want to adhere to, how many billions of euro fines did France simply ignore when they decided that EU laws were not in their interest. I would like to see a UK Bill Of Rights, as I think ECHR has too much say, but I do not see that happening very quickly post BREXIT.
Economy
I think we are better in, I do not believe the £55m a day figure, with the rebate and the £4bn a year paid back to farmers and poorer regions etc this is more like £25m a day it "costs" to be a member of the EU, its a fact of life that the richer countries pay more than the poorer countries, and I think the economy does well for the £25m a day.
I would like to see proper reform, less red tape for example, the discussion around the Govt. being unable to bail out TATA due to EU rules where as other countries have done similar (another example of some countries picking and choosing what they adhere too)
TITP
This is a big unknown, the fact that the trade agreement is being conducted in secret does not bode well, however most commercially sensitive negotiations take place behind closed doors, I think its highly unlikely that agreeing to TITP will mean the end of the NHS (some say the Tories have been doing this already without the need for TITP) but I think the NHS is too big to go down the route of full privatisation, as has been shown with PFI being brought into schools the areas where it didn't work quickly became apparent and were reversed, however the areas that could be modernised, could be improved upon has shown great success.
Comment