EU Referendum - How will you vote?

[apelike 10]

The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in the UK is current over 10%, which puts it at twice the rate of the UK:

http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Unemployment_statistics#Recent_developments_in_unemployment_at_a_European_and_Member_State_level

This will be slightly low as the UK is part of the EU and brings their numbers down.

 

The EU does not have 12 times the population of the UK. The UK has a population of 60 million at the EU-UK is about 440 million, which is about 7 times larger.

 

Thanks for that link and now bookmarked.

 

According to Google in 2013 the UK had a population of around 64.1M and the EU 742.5M which is around 11.5 times greater.

 

I take it from those statistics also that migrants/refugees/asylum seekers do not get counted as being unemployed, so in effect unemployment in the EU could be even worse that made out?

[ghost rider 10]

I have been reading the reasons for staying in the EU on the PRO EUROPA website,some of the reasons are hilarious.Cheaper roaming mobile phone calls,cheaper credit cards.:hihi:.Have a read and see what you think.

 

http://www.proeuropa.org.uk/twelevereasons

 

These are not good enough reasons for staying in for me compared to the reasons for leaving.

[Brian Equato 10]

Nov 2014

Britain is the most prosperous of the big economies in the European Union, a major report finds today, but is still behind countries like Switzerland and Norway which chose not to join the bloc.

 

The survey also found that the UK is a world-leader for entrepreneurship, coming 8th in the list.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11204578/Britain-ahead-of-Germany-in-rich-league.html

 

Its surprising that some people still think that the UK is a basket case that can only survive under the EU umbrella.

 

Makes you wonder how countries with smaller GDP than the UK, you know, industrial midgets like Brazil manage to survive despite not being in the EU.

[GLASGOWOODS 10]

So you believe that the €3 billion subsidies given to farmers should disappear overnight? Won't this lead to more expensive food? What about the €1 billion given to research, surely cutting this will have a detrimental effect upon the country?

 

Maybe they're feeling a little guilty for destroying the Scottish fishing industry.

[francypants 441]

I have been reading the reasons for staying in the EU on the PRO EUROPA website,some of the reasons are hilarious.Cheaper roaming mobile phone calls,cheaper credit cards.:hihi:.Have a read and see what you think.

 

http://www.proeuropa.org.uk/twelevereasons

 

These are not good enough reasons for staying in for me compared to the reasons for leaving.

 

 

Ha! Ha! What a load of clap trap...... makes you want to vote to stay in doesn't it ? !!! ..... NO !

[Blackbeard 10]

Makes you wonder how countries with smaller GDP than the UK, you know, industrial midgets like Brazil manage to survive despite not being in the EU.

 

Have you looked at the problems of Brazil recently?

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/sp-cuts-brazil-rating-further-into-junk-territory-2016-02-17

[ghost rider 10]

Maybe they're feeling a little guilty for destroying the Scottish fishing industry.

 

Yes and the farcical situation of uk fishermen having to throw fish back while other EU countries fish in our waters taking more fish than we are allowed to catch.Insane!One Dutch super trawler hoovers up 23 percent of our entire EU quota on its own.

[JFKvsNixon 11]

Yes and the farcical situation of uk fishermen having to throw fish back while other EU countries fish in our waters taking more fish than we are allowed to catch.Insane!One Dutch super trawler hoovers up 23 percent of our entire EU quota on its own.

 

Why do you think that the EU introduced fishing quotas the different nations, or do you believe that the fishermen from the different countries should be left to fight over the ever dwindling stocks of fish.

 

If your interested, have a read and see what happened to Canada's fishing industry which led to Canada banning cod fishing.

[Brian Equato 10]

Have you looked at the problems of Brazil recently?

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/sp-cuts-brazil-rating-further-into-junk-territory-2016-02-17

 

Sounds a bit like Greece.

Admitted Brazil with it's vast resources should probably be performing somewhat more impressively.

[Car Boot 10]

I don't want to live in a self governing, democratic country.

 

That's why I'm voting to REMAIN in the EU.

[ghost rider 10]

Why do you think that the EU introduced fishing quotas the different nations, or do you believe that the fishermen from the different countries should be left to fight over the ever dwindling stocks of fish.

 

If your interested, have a read and see what happened to Canada's fishing industry which led to Canada banning cod fishing.

 

I firmly believe that our waters should be just that,OURS.It is a natural resource of being an island and it used to help make britain wealthy and should again.Let the other countries fight for whats left.If you look into it you will find that britain would have plenty of fish if other countries were not allowed to take it.Go and stand in the middle of Grimsby and tell them that the quotas are fair and see what kind of response you get.

Edited February 22, 2016 by ghost rider

[Eric Arthur 10]

Have you looked at the problems of Brazil recently?

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/sp-cuts-brazil-rating-further-into-junk-territory-2016-02-17

 

Sounds a bit like Greece.

Admitted Brazil with it's vast resources should probably be performing somewhat more impressively.

 

Mercosur is holding Brazil back now that they have basket case nations to support. Some might say that there are parallels with the UK and the EU.

Edited February 22, 2016 by Eric Arthur