08-07-2016, 17:58
(This post was last modified: 08-07-2016, 18:05 by St Charles Owl.)
(08-07-2016, 14:34)Fredstersafool Wrote: Jim what has being part of the EU done to make this country better than before we joined?? because from where i'm sitting it's zero.
Throughout the whole campaign, the question Fred poses here is the one question that needed to be answered by the Remain campaign!! Yet from what I saw all they did was answer back against the propaganda being spouted by the Leave campaign, getting drawn into pointless arguments about what would happen if we pulled out (pointless because no one knows what will happen) and completely failing to explain what the EU does or doesn't do for us!!!
I can see why Leave won, there was really no one fighting to explain what good had come from being in the EU and the "have nots" (as 0762 refers to them) could see not tangible benefits of being in the EU, coupled with the fact that a lot of the old middle/working class in the UK are struggling to make ends meet and facing more austerity measures, the easy target was to blame the EU and getting out of that gives them a chance to try to change that.
(08-07-2016, 16:21)hibeejim21 Wrote: 3.1 million jobs for a start off.
We have been in the EU as we currently know it officially since 1993 (Maastricht Treaty), if the only thing the EU has done for us is the creation of 3.1m jobs over that time, then no wonder Leave won!!! The population of the UK has risen from 57.6m in 1993 to 65m now, so our population has increased by nearly 3 times the jobs the EU has created!!
The EU has done a lot of good in its time, and some not so good as well, yet the Remain campaign could not even tell the ordinary man in the street what those things were as opposed to the lies and bad things being very prominently rammed down everyone's throats!!