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If we vote for Brexit what happens
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The economic behemoth Germany has those better housing standards for the young. But it also has a much more balanced job market across 6 or so mini-capitals. That helps a lot. In the UK there's only one game in town - London and the S.E. That's where the housing market overheat is. In MSE or the papers you sometimes read about a fabulous house purchase at a peanuts price - and it's always in one of the UKs economically blighted areas.are you referring to the continuing high unemployment in the EU?
whilst the UK has an unemployment rate of about 5% the EU is still suffering from recession levels of 8% with many countries much much higher.
Clearly the bigotted political EU ruling class care little for people losing their homes and jobs.
Thank goodness we have avoided the worst of the EU madness.
However only the rich older people of the UK, welcome poor housing standards and young people being unable to live in a modest family sized property.
All people of goodwill would prefer there was a better match between supply and demand so that ordinary young people could enjoy the same level of housing as their equivalents 20 years ago.
Such a better match of supply and demand would imply a welcome reduction in house prices which would be to the good of the majority.
Only the economically ignorant equate decent housing standards with 'recession' and unemployment rather than sensible control of immigration numbers are more house building.
I trust you have recovered from your fantasy about being a citizen of the world and believing in unlimited free movement of people and have now settled back to your more familiar white christian comfort zone.0 -
They could have rejected him, and forced another nomination. Reminds me of something from the time of the vote, when UKIP were tweeting mock ballots implying they had to endorse the guy, but also tweeting pictures of their ballots in which they showed they weren't:
Have you ever wondered why the EU don't let the people decide who they want for president?If I don't reply to your post,
you're probably on my ignore list.0 -
The economic behemoth Germany has those better housing standards for the young. But it also has a much more balanced job market across 6 or so mini-capitals. That helps a lot. In the UK there's only one game in town - London and the S.E. That's where the housing market overheat is. In MSE or the papers you sometimes read about a fabulous house purchase at a peanuts price - and it's always in one of the UKs economically blighted areas.
London and the SE presents about 32% of the population of England. Although I would prefer that the economic activity were more widely spread geographically I see no realistic prospect of that happening.
However, the housing market in the SE, as elsewhere is determined by supply and demand and the people of the UK would be better off with a smaller population.0 -
Have you ever wondered why the EU don't let the people decide who they want for president?
Is it because there's a system of representative democracy?
In the same way British people don't vote for the Prime Minister, they vote for an MP to represent them who will then support a PM. Aussies do the same thing to elect their PM, and neither the UK nor Australia gets to vote for their Head of State which is apparently fine in all this EU talk.0 -
It would be interesting to see how many 'excess deaths' that represents.
The poorer the country the less it can spend on health care so the more people die preventable deaths.
You are David Cameron and I claim my £5.There certainly were several candidates, none of which were allowed to be chosen by the elected members of the EU parliament.
And the elected EU leaders chose a president up to his eyes in dodgy corporation tax deals which are still under investigation. But that's the EU for you.
Don't worry, just like in the UK with the expenses scandal, we can all just vote the criminals out...can't we?I think....0 -
Have you ever wondered why the EU don't let the people decide who they want for president?
No, in the same way I've never wondered why the UK doesn't let the people decide who they want for Speaker of the House of Commons.If you think of it as 'us' verses 'them', then it's probably your side that are the villains.0 -
Is it because there's a system of representative democracy?
In the same way British people don't vote for the Prime Minister, they vote for an MP to represent them who will then support a PM. Aussies do the same thing to elect their PM, and neither the UK nor Australia gets to vote for their Head of State which is apparently fine in all this EU talk.
2 differences. Firstly, we get to know who is likely to be Prime Minister when we vote. Secondly, our elected MP's can choose whoever they like to be Prime Minister, there isn't a shortlist of one.If I don't reply to your post,
you're probably on my ignore list.0 -
No, in the same way I've never wondered why the UK doesn't let the people decide who they want for Speaker of the House of Commons.
However, employing a disrespectful drunkard, with questionable (to say the least) personal financial dealings, who puts everyone's backs up, to do the job he is doing tells us much about the EU.
The Speaker of the House of Commons' job is merely to keep order in the House, not to voice key decisions about the country, let alone about all the sovereign nations in Europe.0 -
No, in the same way I've never wondered why the UK doesn't let the people decide who they want for Speaker of the House of Commons.
Our elected representatives can choose from a list of 650 - that's 649 more than MEP's get to choose your President.If I don't reply to your post,
you're probably on my ignore list.0 -
Were the reasons for the English Parliament (now British) put to you?
How were the eradication of Mercia and Wessex voted on?
These arguments are a bit silly.
Those were historical decisions made a very long time ago within our own country. Here, we are talking about the eradication of democracy and Britain's right to self-determination, imposed on us by an outside power, by stealth and without the agreement of our population. There's no comparison.0
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