roger_mellie
Vital Youth Team
Yeah sod off starburst and snickers.
Trev_GFC - 24/6/2016 18:14
I'm trying to understand the Brexit vote. I know a lot of people voted on one issue, and it's not down to ignorance. It's because we simply weren't informed well enough of what the EU is and does. It's a lot of pacts and directives relating to everything. Some good, some not so good. Instead we were fed scaremongering from both sides, figures plucked from nowhere, and forced to think that the EU has no influence other than immigration or free trade. Even the televised debates were formed of a bunch of chickens with different shit stains on them clucking the same clucks. Of course people will vote on the one or two issues dragged out to death by them.
I can completely understand people voting simply due to immigration if they solely disagree with the level of immigration (particularly settling in Kent) and that we have our hands tied when deporting them. Any other reason and you need to admit that you're a twat.
The one thing I just don't get is the classic "we fought the Germans during the war and now we're surrendering to them" - please can someone explain this. Is complying with the request to put money together to help bail out Greece for the safety of the whole of the EU surrendering to them? Or taking in a fraction of the immigrants making their way from Syria? Both times providing a fraction of what Germany were offering? Or is this part of Germany's plan to create the 4th Reich? Surely I'm missing something here?
Anyone who mentions benefits street in their reasons for Brexit don't deserve to be taken seriously.
Cutting foreign aid - a touchy one. With our EU membership fee at least there's accountability where it goes. Otherwise, what's the guarantee any of the money saved from leaving the EU will go to the right causes here? Remember the story of the man who told his mate "I never smoke. You know, with the money you save you could buy a Ferrari" only to get the response "Well where's your Ferrari?".