Quote (dro94 @ Mar 18 2016 07:24am)
Don't get pissy, I don't judge because of talking about turks, I judge because leaving doesn't solve any of the problems they claim to fix.
Let me guess: leave, take control of borders and sign a free trade agreement with the EU? Well to do that you'd have to agree to the free movement of people in the deal like Norway and Switzerland, thus making border control just as ineffective, and in the process lose all bargaining power. We export over 50% of our goods to the EU and import over 40%, it would be a disaster.
Not to mention you've got it upside down because actually the better educated and informed you are, the more likely you'd be to support staying in the EU because of logic, reasoning and facts.
The only argument for leaving the EU I could possibly respect is a principled stand for sovereignty, but don't try and assert that it would actually be better.
That wasn't one of my points but since you're interested in the money I'd say we could potentially make an agreement closer to what Canada are discussing. I'd say that putting our economy into the same bracket of pulling power as Norway and Switzerland is, at best, mildly insulting.
No one is saying that a "brexit" would be easy, or wouldn't, at least temporarily, harm the UK economy. But I firmly believe, along with people much smarter than you or I, that the eu is heading for trouble, and we could end up a lot better off being on the outside looking in.