I'm Feeling Quite Smug Right Now

You Americans got a good gig going on with this independence thing after all, right?

Mmmmm.

-JaketheGinger

P.S. Bye bye Cameron.

Comments

[621Chopsuey]

Yeah, I've been hearing bits about this all day. Whats the reason behind the UK's split, exactly?

[Psykosis]

4046545 From what I've heard, the biggest factor is something like too many immigrants taking jobs and watering down the culture, which is hypocritical and ill-thought out.

[JaketheGinger]

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From what I've heard, the biggest factor is something like too many immigrants taking jobs and watering down the culture, which is hypocritical and ill-thought out.

It's definitely not that. That's just shit smearing Remain campaigners like to do.

Immigration is an issue, as we're not allowed to control how much of it we would like in the country. The problem is there's too much. If immigration is to work, you need periods of downtime where you settle in the newcomers. If you let in too much at once, you basically get a gameover of tetris. It's not a racism thing at all. Immigrants can provide many boons to a country, provided the system is done correctly. Right now, it is not.

But really one of the biggest reasons, at least for me, is democracy. We only vote for one representative to speak for us in the EU. The rest are all people we didn't elect. The EU even has its own parliament, again, not elected by the people.

It's undemocratic and it seems that a lot of British people would rather have the right to govern themselves.

[Metool Bard]

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But really one of the biggest reasons, at least for me, is democracy. We only vote for one representative to speak for us in the EU. The rest are all people we didn't elect.

Aren't the rest of the representatives from their own countries, thus the UK would have no reason to elect such individuals? I'll admit, I don't know a whole lot about how the EU works.

[Crim]

4046877

Actually quite a lot of EU Officials aren't voted for at all. The EU as an organisation has never been audited and has never balenced books, frankly if it was a business, it would've gone bankrupt long ago. I stand by Jake here. Roll on article 50 of the Lisbon agreement and true Brexit.

[JaketheGinger]

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The difficulty is that not many people, including myself, know how the EU truly works. Already that sets off a few alarm bells. We know how our own government works but why not something as big as the EU?

But it's as 4046899 says and I said earlier: there's a lot of bodies within the EU that aren't voted for, like their very own Parliament. As far as I'm aware, we elect one official to go there and he sits on a board with other elected officials and they try to work together to propose legislation, which the EU parliament then really debates on.

I think.

[Steel Resolve]

I'm happy that you're happy, but I'm not sure things will be as simple as just leaving the union. When the colonies broke off, we were an ocean away, and not dependent on the UK for much of anything. UK leaving the union is a bit more like the spleen trying to separate itself from the main body. You may find that you're just as dependent as before, and 'independent' in name only.

I'll hope it works out though.