It’s all rather odd that the Libdems, Labour with a different leader, AND half the Tory party - seem in favour of staying in the EU.
Among the public - as I’ve said many a time - If you are in a position to benefit from the “easier EU trading” or “cheaper EU Labour force” or “lower transaction charges”… Then it makes sense for one to be “in favour” at the public level to stay in the EU.
The thing is, the vast majority of us are either indifferent to it all or hostile towards it. That’s the vast majority of the public not actually in favour in a similar manner to the way that people don’t bother to get out and vote - unless their seat is a marginal, and they feel that their vote won’t be wasted.
Pensioners are likely indifferent to issues regarding the EU. They don’t benefit from “human rights” stuff, nor “employment law” since they’ve long since retired.
Rank-and-file workers are likely hostile to the EU, as they see their jobs both disappearing, or offered only at the similar low wages that the integrating immigrant has already signed up for.
The non-integrating immigrant is far more likely to render themselves self-employed, or bring their family over and make full use of the benefits system.
That is bad enough when the immigrant is from the EU, and afforded such rights on our turf - but how many do we get arriving from the eu - but not originally from anywhere within it at all?
Distill the two, and huge inroads will be made into this “crisis” as the social problem that it is.
Both Labour and Tory have been making noises that equate being “pro out” with somehow being “racist” towards immigrants because they see the entire UKIP argument as only being about “controlling our borders” rather than the sheer money wasting that was the argument that got myself on board with the “out” camp.
Every pound this country wastes abroad - means another pound taken off the rest of us in continued austerity that otherwise would not be necessary at all.
Forgetting “closing our borders” for a minute - I’m in favour of cutting the foreign aid budget to zero, foreign donation bribes to governments that then rebuke us - to zero - and most importantly our EU net contributions - to zero.
We could do all three of these things without leaving the EU - but I doubt very much if the EU would want to have us stay in - if we were no longer their “Grosse Insel” cash cow.
Greece had exactly the same choice - but Tsipras bottled it at the last minute, much to the disgust of Veroufakis who promptly resigned…
In the end, it will be “continued austerity” that will very likely swing the “Undecided” faction on which way to vote in any forthcoming referendum.
No doubt our government will engineer it so that “Yehh! Austerity has ended just in time!” - or at least that’s what the lying barstewards would have us believe…
If Austerity has taken a huge lunge for the worse, then Farage’s argument that we could bail ourselves out of austerity by simply ceasing to bay the Buggers of Brussels - carries a LOT more weight, and may will win the “Out” campaign then and there!
No WONDER Carney and Osbourne are coming into the new year with some trepidation!
Interest rates are going nowhere any time soon - I’ve been saying it for the past 5 years - and I’m still being proven right day by day.
The amount of money I’ve made from being right on this single issue is approaching £100k by this point - so I’ve got no complaints at being able to play the lies for all their worth…
We’re only told “rates will rise soon!” - to sell more otherwise worthless “fixed rate mortgages” you see. If you knew rates were going nowhere for another 5 years - you’d take a lifetime Bank of England base rate tracker out - and sit on it - wouldn’t you?