As the debate rages around the UK on whether we should
leave or stay in the EU. The question is are people really thinking for themselves or are they just believing all the crap that the daily rags tell them to?
We have owners of multiple papers who live offshore most of the year just to get out of paying their fair share of UK tax, telling us tax payers what to do. Is this really fair? It's just the rich elite who are always going to go from strength to strength as long as no-one stands up to them enforcing their will on the people as they always do.
Will people who vote actually make a real decision or will they be swayed like the US electorate always is to vote for the person with the biggest smile, angriest most bullish comments and plans to "restore America to greatness" as if it had suddenly become a third world country without the biggest economy and military in the world?
So
the BREXIT referendum all rests on whether people believe the "deal" Cameron brought back was worth the paper it was written on or not.
To me Cameron's "Deal", is just a tinkering around the edges that prevents migrants from claiming benefits for years, and allows Britain to cap the number of people entering the country. It really doesn't make much of a difference at all.
We will still
will be bound by the European Court of Human Rights, pay our monthly millions to be part of the EU, and whilst the Euro zone members make important financial decisions we will now be left out of them and probably still be asked to pay towards any bailouts such as those for Greece and
Ireland etc.
I never got to vote to join the EC in the 70's.
That was
the Economic Community, a joining together of countries for free trade without tariffs between members and a supposed opening up of the many countries nationalised utilities and businesses.
It was not a vote on whether we should join
a European Super State, with its own Defence Force, a 3 tier decision-making system where the most democratic body,
the European Parliament, has the least power.
People complain about the number of EU migrants that enter
Southern Europe and are then just waved through multiple counties until they reach Germany or Calais hoping to get to England. However we must remember that about 1.8m Britons live in Europe, with
Spain boasting an expat population of just over 1m UK citizens.
Of the Britons living in Europe, 400,000 are claiming a state pension from the UK.
The question is, if free movement is good for us, what will happen when it is shut down. We may be able to control the number of migrants from the EU entering the country but what will happen to the retired wrinkled leather tanned grannies of the
Costa Del Sol?
An ex Pat, enjoying the Sun and beach
Will these ex pats all have to go through some sort of immigration test as if they were trying to get green cards in the US?
I cannot even imagine many Brits passing any part of a test that expected them to know the hosts language and culture.
It could be that we manage to make arrangements that doesn't affect Brits with jobs OR money from going out to live in the EU however I am guessing a lot of EU members are really pissed off with us at the moment for getting a
"special membership deal".
Whilst Germany and France wanted to keep us in the EU for the risk that it might fall apart, I can well imagine many newer members are thinking, why does the UK always try to get it's own way?
From my perspective it would have been good if Cameron had reached a consensus with other members that would have reformed the EU properly.
You know basic things like make it truly democratic, removed any moves to keep pushing for a super state, restored it back to a trading block that was good for business without all the imported laws and of course stopped all the massive fraud which
has prevented a real audit for many years now.
There are lots of things wrong with the EU and the constant push towards a superstate is one of them. One of the original ideas was to try and make a block of states that was an equal balance to the power of the US but instead we have just turned into the USA's cross pond bitch.
So I believe Cameron's almost
Chamberlain like "Peace in our time", excitement at having got his deal, is going to bite him in the butt just as Chamberlain found out when the NAZI's ignored his magic bit of paper and rolled across Europe.
This is small fry being pumped with steroids to make it seem like a massive change in our relationship with the EU. In reality it is some small changes around the edges.
If ever someone had made a worthless deal and wanted to sell it to the public as if it was a magic exemption from all the EU's meddling in our lives, like
the EU Human Rights Law that protects us from this Police State country over reaching in its step, then this is it
.
When I was younger I liked being able to hop on a plane and just go to
Spain to live. I had no job but that didn't matter, free movement of people and workers meant we could all go where we wanted when we wanted without border checks, citizenship tests and green cards.
For those who have never lived abroad and have only
gone to Ibiza on your holiday or maybe a trip to Paris on Valentines day then you won't really think about the difference between a holiday and actually being able to pick up your bags and literally run off to any part of Europe with no questions asked.
However whilst
Spain has always been the old stereotyped destination for our UK retirees it seems over recent year the US, Australia and the rest of the world have overtaken Europe for the primary destination for those with one foot in the grave.
The top 10 destinations for Britons to retire to are now:
- Channel Islands: 73,030
- Germany: 96,938
- France: 172,806
- Ireland: 253,605
- South Africa: 305,660
- New Zealand: 313,850
- Spain: 381,025
- Canada: 674,371
- United States of America: 758,919
- Australia: 1,277,474
So maybe the modern "cultured" Brit is changing their retirement plans and thinking a bit more further than the
Costa Del Crime nowadays.
Spain has always been our number one destination for holidays and retirees. A place where you can enjoy the 40
° heat and drink British beer in pubs frequented by famous English gangsters on the run.
So many
famous British gangsters have been out to the Costa Del Sol no wonder
we call it the Costa Del Crime.
However it seems we are looking wider than Med for our retirement plans - that's if we get any pension money. I doubt I will ever see any from the thousands I have put into the system over my working career. It seems the Tories want us to work until our 80's and the age is constantly being pushed upwards.
There have been rumblings from Tory think tanks for years now from people already on hundreds of thousands of pounds a month pensions who
believe we should do voluntary work in our retirement to collect our hard earned pension.
Leaving the EU won't stop any evil Tory plans from coming to fruition and if we want a
REAL CHANGE in our democracy and the way we act in the world we should be thinking about
NATO.
What would we do if
Turkey start a war with Russia over Syria, we would be forced to fight on their side whether they started the war by deception or not. I am more worried about
World War III happening due to
duplicitous NATO allies at the moment than the amount of money we pay in and get back in rebates from the EU.
We should also be thinking about how
the Tories have tripled our national debt in the years they were supposedly
"fixing the roof whilst the sun was shining", and supposedly cutting the ever so important deficit. The deficit may have dropped but the total amount of debt has increased hugely due to the Tories thinking that the poorer we all are, the more money we will spend.
They have failed us. In Europe, on the world stage and most importantly at home.
Austerity hasn't worked at all and
the national debt has ballooned because of the Tories core voters (the grey brigade), will vote against anyone who dares to cut their pensions.
These take up a vast proportion of the
social security budget and will undoubtedly be ignored whist
the disabled and poor are forced to suffer through the bedroom tax, universal credit, and the severe lack of social housing we have in this country.
Europe has no control over these areas of our lives and if we want to sort out our country we really need to get rid of the failed Tories and try their method of printing money, not at 0% interest rates so the
Banksters can lend it to us through companies like
WONGA at 5,853% APR, but to invest in infrastructure, building new homes and putting people through education. If we can do it for the banks why can't we do it for the people?
Remember we were in a much worse off state in the years after
WWII. We only just finished off paying our debt to the US a few years ago under Gordon Brown.
Despite that we still created the NHS, cleared the slums of London and built thousands of new houses and multiple new towns for the people moved out of London. Plus we ushered in an age of economic prosperity that latest decades.
It is only short-sighted Tory thinking that keeps us in the current trap we are in. One where bankers must be bailed out even though they should be in jail, and the poor are paying off the national debt, despite having no money.
If only we would just wipe any national debt on citizens like Iceland did to many mortgage holders that were linked to inflation. It sounds crazy but would put money in the pockets of those most likely to spend it, plus create a huge demand for goods and a rise in GDP.
Having a
"National Bank" that can print money as long as it's for investment in houses and jobs could give us full employment, cheaper rent and accommodation costs and more money in the pocket to spend to increase GDP.
At the moment our whole economy, just like it was during Labours time in office, is built on the house of cards made from debt. People remortgaging houses or taking out loans to spend on goods. An unsustainable recovery. Screw the bankers who say it cannot be done. We did it for you, why can't we do it to actually help rebuild our country?
So the question is, are people going to t
hink with their heads or their hearts about this exit from the EU.
A lot has changed with the European project to stop a further European war after WWII, with
France and Germany the two main actors in this union coming together to ensure that the rest of Europe sticks together and shows "solidarity".
From stopping a war to free trade agreements and a central bank. Then
a EU flag, courts and parliament. Then laws enforced on us which we don't want. All whilst we pay billions to be part of a club that's money could be better spent on hospitals and schools. That is one argument for leaving.
The problem is that war fades in people's minds, especially those who never fought in
WWII or who had family who did.
"What does the EU have to do with WWII" many people will ask.
Now that the EU project is more about creating a super state, it spies on us and hands over all bank transactions to the US as well as traces of our Internet history and anything else the NSA overlords demand. However even if we leave the EU I guess due to our "special relationship", with the US, we would still carry on letting our GCHQ be the NSA's bitch, so nothing would change on the police state front.
Also whilst we may collaborate as a big trading block to face China, the
BRICS and
North American trading blocks, can the
BREXIT crew really convince us that on an economic scale we would really be better outside this trading block.
Selling tea to India, ornaments to Russia and other small manufactured products across the world is the
BREXIT plan. We don't build big things anymore. Our ship building industry is almost gone and we have offshored so many jobs that actually make things, you know jobs good for all those skilled manual workers we are trying to find jobs for, that we are just a service economy. Selling ideas, concepts and of course bank trickery.
If we leave the EU will we survive without the cheap gas and electricity we import from the EU, or will we get extra tariffs put on them putting us even further into debt. The
French/Chinese nuclear power stations that were supposed to be on their way have only just been signed off.
It will take another 20 years at least until we see these new power stations so we will be relying on our dwindling North Sea Oil stocks and imports seeing that we never really bothered investing in green energy.
This is despite being an island surrounded by multiple ways of making energy from natural sources such as the sea, wind and sun. We have loads of places to put under sea turbines that use wave power and windmills off shore to take in their blustery winds. We really never tried as we suffered from a "not in my back garden" mentality, whenever a wind farm was proposed to be build anyway near a house.
So will people even consider the financial terms of leaving or will they think what the Sun, Daily Mail and other trash papers tell them to think?
The EU is a debt ridden collection of states that turned the thumb screws on
Greece, Italy and Spain all so that they could enforce austerity, increase taxes and pay back
Goldman Sachs and that other
evil trio, the European Bank, IMF and World Bank.
Do we want to live in a place that see's
solidarity between nations as one that involves throwing the poor to the dogs so that their rich
Banksters who caused the mess can be fully compensated. Plus solidarity is not where Germany gets to bend the rules but smaller states can't lest they risk German austerity plans as the cost of remaining in the Euro.
This financial crisis that has still not been solved since 2008 is just waiting for another explosion. When it comes it will make 2008 look like a picnic.
Will the UK, the hub of
banksters from
the terrorist supporting, Mexican drug dealing, al-Qaeda funding HSBC to the corrupt Barclay's brothers, really be better inside or out when the next economic explosion occurs.
As the
City of London is basically it's
own country within a country, where the leaders of the companies and banks get to sit on their special council and can "command" the Chancellor to appear before them, they will probably see no difference in their money making schemes whether we leave or stay.
To me it all depends on who is in charge.
The Tories seem to want to put the strain of any recovery on the backs of the working class whilst rewarding their rich friends.
Their recent budget removed £30 from the disabled people of our country that gave them support to get dressed and move about and instead they have given the richest more
tax breaks. It is clear where their priorities lie.
Voting Tory is like voting for a gang rape on yourself. Why people do it I have no idea.
On the other hand
Labour, SNP, the Greens and Lib Dems feel that a more even policy that involves banksters going to jail and splitting up the banks between Casinos and Savings is called for.
On top of that more measures that don't punish the poor but instead help them climb up the ladder whilst the rich who have become more wealthy in the last 5+ years are made to contribute their fair share.
Whether they will actually stick to their words is a totally different matter. We just have to look at the Lib Dems when they got their taste of power to see how power corrupts and good promises become faded memories.
So what will make you vote yes or no when the time comes?
EU Democracy or the lack of it?
The prospect of war?
Finance and austerity?
Migration?
Not being held to account to the European Convention of Human Rights (
an act the Tories wrote after WWII to show how civilised we are)
Or something else?
Let me know.
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