EU Referendum

[chaostika]

 

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[Guest SayaX]

75% of people under the age of 25 voted to remain. Young people are worried about jobs, housing and generally how this will affect them in the future and rightly so. As we can see the £ has fallen to record lows, the stock market has fallen and the Prime Minister David Cameron has resigned. We can only hope that the market will stabilise for the sake of young people. It all seems like a rather selfish vote from the older generation. A generation that has enjoyed the riches of the baby boomer years.

 

Once again the main argument from the Leave side was immigration. The fact is that the majority of immigrants that come here are hard working and pay their taxes. A lot work multiple jobs just to get by. The whole idea that it is a strain on public services is an over exaggeration as well. Firstly, a lot of workers in the health service are immigrants because there is a skills shortage. Also, most immigrants are young and healthy meaning they need the health service a lot less. We have a growing aging population which is by far the largest cost to the health service and in terms of pensions. Immigrants are just an easy scapegoat. It is a worry when there is more of a phobia of immigrants in society.

 

Also, this will make people even more cynical of politics. Sure, this has given people a democratic vote. However, in private Boris Johnson (the likely replacement for David Cameron) is in favour of the EU, but was very publicly campaigning to Leave. This seems like a selfish choice by Boris Johnson to finally realise his dream of getting the UKs top job and moving into No 10 Downing Street as Prime Minister.

 

This topic started as a bit of a joke but this is a sad and worrying time for Britain. I fear it will also encourage other right wing groups in Europe to push for a similar thing across the EU.

[Lumi]

I have a spare room down here.

 

At least until we become a republic.

[Asmodeux]

The Europe has been always dead. There's not even unity in some former countries of it. How are they supposed to keep all of this going ? And the € is almost equal to the $, comparing to some years ago.
Funny the Brexit won pushing all on immigration, while the average British guy is far from being a pale one, as well a huge part of their economy moves around them, from low-paid to professional positions. If this has happened the fault is of who managed the problem and focused on sentimentalism, instead of trying to solve it. Not surprised they want to propose the same referendum in other states.

And yes I live in Europe, again yes in one of those countries where they used recent news just to take the baton, all in all just changing liar.

 

Hope Scotland will leave the UK, just to kick that mummy out of their land.