I've avoided this
debate because I don't really hold any views on the EU, and if we (the UK) should join or not. I seriously doubt we'll get a referendum on the issue now that some countries have set the precedent of voting no. I'm not very interested in the euro as a currency, but the UK would be weaker if it was out of the EU on it's own. If I remember correctly, collectively the EU is the biggest market in the world, even compared to Asia and the Americas.
brajan said:
Thb i'm slowly losing my faith in UE couse since we joined almost everything goes more expensive but monthly payment doesn't changed.
Gasoline, internet, food ..... european standards fs. Earnings are definitely NOT european standards here in Poland.
Now this is interesting to me because at the company I work for, we have employeed some 50+ Polish people this year alone. I chat to some of the smokers on my break times and through their broken English found out that the UK offers a lot of potential for earnings compared to back in Poland.
Which leads me too..
Immigration
I don't think its a a big issue, I think it's the hyped sensational story which has been selling news papers for far too long. It's the wrong issue for everyone to be focusing on.. "the fear of the foreigners".
But as a nation we are probably dependant on immigration to create the "new class" of citizen/employee. This seems to be anyone who comes into the UK and gets a job. They are clever guys, smart people, yet earning minimum wage - part time - cleaning bed rooms and moving suit cases. The only people who apply for our low paid jobs at the moment are the Polish.
And of couse businesses all over the UK benefit from this "new working class" that we now officially import into the country. If it wasn't for these people, there would be less middle management style jobs for the white working class, and a lot more of "us" would be flipping burgers, unemployeed and cleaning hotel rooms.
The same goes for the US. The Texas border with Mexico is something silly like 600 miles long. A grand total of 2 Customs Officers are responsible for this zone, and they sit and play cards all day in the sun. The US would fall to pieces if immigration was properly controlled, since the immigrants are the people providing all of the hard work these days in the core of Americans small businesses and multi-nationals
Put into a bad situation, people will do any job to survive if they have too. And this seems slightly explotive to me!
Maybe I'd like us to join the EU and lose control over some of our major policies. It would be nice if the UK couldn't make unilateral moves such as the decision to bomb the crap out of Iraq, with a country on the other side of the world, rather than side with our neighbours.