Most\nof us know that there are issues with the EU, but whether or not the issues\noutweigh the benefits of remaining within the EU was the real question most\npeople were thinking about in June 2016. Whilst May and her negotiation team\nhave put the entire situation into utter mess and chaos, we can all clearly see\nnow just how awkward, insistent, dominant and uncompromising the EU is when it\ncomes to negotiations and conduct, even with its own member states. This highlights a good reason in itself as to\nwhy Britain shouldn\u2019t be associated with the bureaucratic ruler that is the EU,\nat the end of the day we did not sign up to be a member of the EU in order to\nbe dictated to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Immigration\nwas one of the most salient issues in the \u2018leave\u2019 campaign; it is a fantastic\nexample to show off just how bad the EU is as a collective body at its job.\nSpain and Greece both have unemployment rates averaging between both of them of\naround 18%. By January 2019, the net migration to Britain\nfrom the EU member states from 2002 to 2010 was 200,000. Whilst this may not\nseem much, migrant workers tend to concentrate towards the same sort of areas,\noverpopulation due to over-immigration can only lead to increased racism,\nresentment and prejudice towards other communities as problems start to arise due\nto suspicion over different cultures and the undercutting of wages due to an\noversupply of labour from migrant workers. \nIn 2015 Greece took in over 860,000 refugees from the Middle East. Whilst\nthere are arguments from the Mediterranean countries that Britain hasn\u2019t taken\nits fair \u2018share\u2019 of refugees, the very fact that Britain was and is still being\npressured to take in people from other countries against its own will whilst\nalso giving more aid to war torn countries (such as Syria) than any other\nsingle nation in the EU highlights yet another example as to why Britain made\nthe made the right decision to leave in 2016. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The\nEU essentially pushes paper for fun. They\nimplement their regulations to prevent small businesses (something that used to\nbe a fundamental part of British society) from undercutting big businesses and\ntherefore becoming more efficient than the dominant monopolies that we have to\nexperience on the daily now because of the EU. One may ask well why does the EU\nprefer big companies to smaller ones. \nThe reason is a quid-pro-quo relationship. In return for setting up their head offices\nin the EU and paying taxes there, the EU will help large companies continue to\nput barriers to entry to the markets in which their operate through further regulations. This is a win-win for both sides, with the only\nlosers being small companies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
There\nare many problems associated with regulation and the way in which the EU run\ntheir economies, with the main issue being that regulations increase cost and\nsmall companies cannot benefit from economies of scale. On top of this they have to pay additional licenses\nto comply with EU legislation when setting up a company in certain markets,\nwhich means it’s virtually impossible to start up a business within the EU\nwithout an awful lot of upfront funding. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This\nthen leads onto the problem of a lack of competition, which leads onto\nefficiency not improving which leads to stagnation. Competition means that\nbusinesses are constantly competing to sell products and generally improve. This has a knock on effect of benefitting\nsociety as were in theory getting better products for cheaper as competition\ndrives businesses to do this otherwise consumers will simply go somewhere else.\nBut now, in the EU we have a stagnated economy with the same big companies at\nthe top and development has never been at such a low. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The\nEU is often misinterpreted for doing well economically and \u2018heavily benefiting\nus\u2019, in fact it is the biggest trading block in the world but at the same time\nit is the only declining economy in the world! So to me, it’s a pretty good\nquestion as to ask why we would remain, especially seeing as the \u2018economic\u2019 argument\nwas supposed to be the strongest point of the remain campaign. It is becoming clearer that the EU\u2019s myth of\nbenefitting us economically just isn\u2019t true. It just shows in 2018 when\nunemployment rates in the EU were at 7.2% and at 4.2% for Britain, Britain was\nsimply being dragged down for no fault of her own, therefore highlighting the\nneed to respect the referendum result and leave the EU as soon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"