In France, the estimated number of Burqa wearers is 2000-3000 (out of 1.5-2m). With our much lower Muslim population, it's probably less than 2000 here. It's just a bit of scaremongering rhetoric.





Leaving the EU which is the biggest market for trade in the world so we can stop a few immigrants from coming here? Really? ...

That would be so damaging in economic terms, you'd have so much more red tape and regulation to import and export goods on a large scale, making trade less profitable for us. Politically it would make us seem isolationist and untrustworthy, shunning the rest of Europe. What other large EU country has backed out of the EU? None, and for good reason.

How about reducing the incentive for unskilled immigrants to work here first: ban regular payments to family members abroad, limit benefits, mandatory english language aptitude tests, etc.

The topic of the EU is being used as a scapegoat to justify bad immigration policy that isn't working, and anti-terrorism laws, the latter of which deny basic human rights, so of course the EU won't allow it.

This post was edited by dro94 on Jun 11 2015 04:48am

Dro has well summarised most of my fears and saved me about 10 minutes

Cheers

ofc the number is low since public burka wearing is forbidden in france and will result in a fine
smartass

rest of your post is reasonable i suppose

This post was edited by ampoo on Jun 11 2015 04:51am

Your population is like 50% turks bro.

And about "nobody needs that fucking EU". It just proves you know precisely shit about economics.

Tell me, are you oftenly engaging manual labor ?

I could pay you to fetch me a few things.

Lol, that was the number before the burqa ban After the ban is 0 probably

This post was edited by dro94 on Jun 11 2015 04:56am

A lot of our trading is done outside of the EU anyway. At least in engineering. And trade agreements could still be made but we'd have more say in it.

I'm not saying it wouldn't negatively effect the economy at all. I'm just saying that overall the benefits could outweigh the negatives.

I feel like they want to make too many weird changes, we should just put a bussines man upfront who can think straight and not produce stupid ideas.

valid point, but i just fear that another business guy up there will make it all about the money again
thats why i think a former footballer who cares about the game and supported by experts is better

I would much rather have one top bussinesman on the chair, and have 10 ex-footballers to give him advice. In the end the bussinesman knows best how to yield a company.

Describe the overall benefits that could possibly outweigh a hugely negative effect on the economy? 57% of our exports are to countries in the EU, and 55% of our imports are too. If there was even a slightly higher cost (in money, time or otherwise) in trade or through making trade agreements then it would have a massive impact, considering the scale of goods traded in the EU market.

France, Germany and other leading EU nations would never allow Britain a "pick and mix" approach to trade agreements, and we'd have no say in the new EU regulations that we would have to abide by through trading with EU countries.