Been having a long discussion with a mostly reasonable Leave-er on Twitter. Was interesting. The general conclusion I came
to, though, is that we don’t stand to gain anything by leaving.
We’d still be the 5th biggest economy
(though might not be if we leave) and 4th military power (for whatever
that’s worth), and would still play a central role in NATO, the UN, the G7, the
G20 and the Commonwealth. We could play an even greater central role in Europe
if we stay but no role at all if we leave. Yet we will still have to pay them
bucketloads of money and abide by their rules and regulations (the way Norway
does) while having NO influence over any of it, which sounds like madness.
In exchange for what?
Control of our borders? We have that now as we are
not in Shengen.
The freedom to engage in a race to the bottom by
lowering wages and tearing up workers rights to compete with China and Pakistan
in cheap manufacturing?
The freedom to go back to shit floating up on our
beaches, 200,000 deaths a year from air pollution and the destruction of our
countryside due to unrestrained fracking?
And … Er …. That’s it.
Oh and our currency and the banks will crash again,
which will be lovely, but at least houses will be cheap for a while ;-)
Doesn’t seem like that good a deal to me.
No comments:
Post a Comment