Lucien wrote:DML wrote:I wouldn't be so harsh. What I would say is that almost every major expert on the matter (not the media) believes Brexit will leave us worse off short and long term. The Vote Leave Campaigner has come out against the Government's Brexit. And the currency is getting worse.
It so happens my beliefs align with the experts, but I will always listen to experts on the other side of the issue. The best I can find suggest a rocky exit at best, a position the government have clearly moved to. The problem is that so few experts even suggest Brexit will work.
At this point it's obvious that any politician who is suggesting Brexit will be a huge success is fake news.
My views don't align with yours but based purely on the evidence we have, tell me I'm being unfair?
The EU is not perfect. No one is pretending it is. But the fantasy of being better off outside may sounds great, but have very little base in the economic reality.
I don't think you were wrong to feel the way you did, but you were misinformed to VOTE the way you did.
To answer your question: I believe staying in the EU was best for the UK's economy (for the foreseeable future) and thought that before voting to leave. It is fair you believe that too, and most economists did argue that. On that issue our views do align; however, on other issues they don't.
So what views don't they align?
And before you even
think of using the word "Immigration" let me just stop you right there.
The UK has always had complete control of immigration from outside of the EU, nothing will change there regardless of our position in or out of the EU. If anything, outside of the EU the UK will have to
relax immigration rules for people from outside of the EU as it's almost certainly going to be a condition of any trade deal with countries like India and China. India has long wanted to make it easier for its citizens to come to the UK and trade negotiations are the perfect place for that.
When it comes to immigration from within the EU, the UK (And indeed all EU member states)
do have individual powers to put controls on this, it's just that successive governments of the last 30 years have made a conscious decision not to use those powers, most likely because EU immigration is a convenient boogeyman to point at for government failings/ineptitude.
As for Freedom of Movement? It still seems to genuinely shock people to learn that this never actually applied to the UK. The UK is not, and never has been, part of the Schengen Area. Anyone coming into the UK from the EU has to go through passport/border control the same as anyone else.