jra wrote:I was trying to make the comparison that leaving the EU won't be IMO as big a deal as some posters on here think it will be. But we'll only know for sure when we finally leave. You see similar things where the stock market is talked up/down not because the market should go up/down, but because people think it should go up/down, i.e. it is only a prediction. Only time will tell with leaving the EU.
People thought the whole world was going to come to a standstill with Y2K and it almost got into panic scaremongering when in reality very little of great significant happened. Now some people are doing the same with leaving the EU.
Businesses will just go where they think they can save on costs. How about India, as nobody has thought of that one before? The UK has been noncompetitive for a long time in the manufacturing sector and leaving the EU will make little difference to that IMO. You know the expression 'everything is made in China'. Being in the EU has caused many wages to lower because of ease of immigration from other EU countries with lower GDPs who will work for lower salaries.
So, some businesses may lose out in the short term, but the average UK individual hasn't gained much by being in the EU, plus the CAP and CFP have had a very detrimental effect on our farming and fishing industries.
In your opinion, thanks for that.
It is the opinion of most financial experts that it will be shit (apart from the one fagging for JRM). You may want to wait and see but according to housing experts you're going to lose a third of the value of your property and your tenants will pay for food rather than rent.
Did you ever stop and think about why Y2K didn't happen? It didn't happen because a load of software experts ran simulations on many lines of code and realised that there would be serious issues at the turn of the Millennium, they then started an entire industry of devs to make sure that it could be mitigated and guess what? It didn't happen because it was taken seriously and reacted to accordingly, the Y2K incident is the laziest example out there.
Who would want to go and work in India and which company is going to fund the re-location of it's workforce? You might get some senior management out there but the manufacturing will be done by the locals for far smaller wages than the now unemployed enjoyed until relocation. See Dyson's move to Malaysia for his shitty vacuums and the announcement that he's going to build cars in Singapore which has recently signed a treaty with the EU. Will he be paying tax into our economy?
The average individual enjoys certain rights that are empowered by EU membership, these are the laws that no-one wants to name when talking about regulations that are forced on us by unelected bureaucrats. These are the regulations that empower the common people and allow them to live a fairly comfortable existence. These are the regulations that those at the helm of brexit detest. Of course these are not forced on us, they are voted in by people who have gained the position of MEP by direct democratic election. If you need me to explain how things get through the frankly tiny bureaucracy of the EU I'm happy to save you the bother of googling it.
CAP is all that keeps our smaller farms going, super farms don't need it and are publicly listed and have a lot of foreign investment and ownership. As for the fishermen; they sold their quotas to the huge Scandinavian factory fishing vessels. How do you suggest that they get them back? Actually, I'm sick of talking about the fucking fishermen, they did this to themselves over the last thirty years and then some twat made Faridge our fishing rep where he turned up once and didn't like it.
TL;DR: You're talking through your arse...