We were fine before the EU, we will be fine after it.
Actually, before joining the EU, Britain wasn't exactly fine. In fact, it joined because its economy was doing noticeably worse than the countries that were in.
In 1950, UK's per capita GDP was almost a third larger than the EU6 average; in 1973, it was about 10% below; it has been comparatively stable ever since.
Cry more Spaniard, you'll never get your little rock back.
You say it as if I gave a flying fuck about Gibraltar. I guess stereotypes are much easier to fall back to than actual rational discourse.
Maybe you'd be nationalist if you lived in a country you could be proud of.
Incidentally, if I had to chose a nationality, I'd say I'm a proud European. I guess it's okay if some people prefer sticking to Little England than looking at the bigger picture.
Some things are more important than the short term economic impact, namely sovereignty and a homogeneous, peaceful country. I do not want 1400 children being molested by Pakistanis being swept under the rug for fear of racism, nor Poles taking all the low skilled jobs and undercutting wages
So you are a racist. Okay, glad we solved that issue. And data does prove that evil Poles
drive down unskilled jobs' wages by 0.5%, which I guess it's absolutely terrible. It's absolutely insane that you want to put so many things at risk -such as the financial sector in the City, exports to the EU and the freedom for you to move to any other EU country- in exchange for increasing low skilled workers' wages by 0.5%.
Brussels does not represent Britain.
And yet the British government has voted against EU laws 2% of the time since 1999, 2,466-56, so I guess Brussels DOES represent the British Government well enough. 98% at least.
^Affirmative action just because you're a different skin colour. Who's this going to be disadvantaged? White working class brits.
And who will be advantaged? Non-white working class Brits, who tend to be poorer than their white counterparts and therefore need more help.
Re-education camps. Wew lad, what does this remind me of?
It reminds me of the Republicans' deranged cries of "Obamacare will create Death Panels that will dedcide to murder your gradma!!!" That's what your reaction reminds me of.
When you've lived around blacks, arabs, aborigines, pacific islanders etc. you'll learn that not all cultures are created equal.
That is a really scary, unscientific and racist thing to say.
As evidenced by the surges of popular support for Trump, Le Pen, Frauke Petry, Geert Wilders, Farage etc. white middle class people across Europe and the West are realising that the left and the global elites do not represent our wellbeing and want to destroy us, to be replaced with an easily manipulable brown mass who will work for peanuts and doesn't have a clue what a "right" is. We have to live in fear of violent crime and terrorism from these groups, watching our once peaceful countries erode to third world status in front of our very eyes and if we dare to speak up we lose our jobs or in some cases be criminally charged.
Our peaceful countries. Europe. Peaceful. When were you born, again? The last war in mainland Europe was barely 20 years ago. We used to have wars every 10 years in average, without "evil brown muslims" or whatever crap you are terrified of.
I know any response to this will come up with a billion links saying how wrong, evil and bigoted I am.
Your own words.
Well guess what, today YOU were wrong. All the masters degree smug bastards, tv hosts, politicians and washed up celebrities who were 100% sure of the result and blatantly tried to dictate to us our own interests got pwned.
It's really sad to see someone saying "Ha! You kept saying we shouldn't jump off that cliff- well, you know what, we did!! :DDD Now the country is 17% poorer overnight but whatever! Celebration!"
The fact that our arguments lost sadly doesn't mean that we were wrong. Just that people would rather vote based on nationalism than actual rational facts.
Half the country disagrees with you. Keep going pushing your insidious agenda though, maybe you'll be able to tell me if you really are conscious for a few seconds after being decapitated by the guillotine.
I hope you are not endorsing the murder of people who disagree with you.