What benefit is that? We have the same exports with countries in Europe that we did 55+ years ago.
But please tell me the others.
Large amounts of consumer protection legislation is one of the key ones - thanks to the EU you get ripped off for mobile phone roaming charges far less than you otherwise would, airlines have generous compensation schemes for when they randomly cancel flights and make you wait hours for the next one, etc etc.
The EU isn't just about trade.
Though as somebody who always tells us about how he's been able to live and work in various countries I'm surprised you seem to think the EU has zero benefits.
There are many benefits we've enjoyed from being in the EU. There are also many disadvantages, too - a rational argument looks at whether these advantages outweigh the disadvantages but so far in this thread all I can see is people like yourself pretending there are no benefits, which is clearly just false.
Irrespective of how many people voted, the percentage of votes for UKIP can most likely be extrapolated up. You can't claim it's only people who like UKIP that voted. These excuses are embarrassing.
One important thing to bear in mind is that those who have made a decision that they agree with and support UKIP are far more likely to vote in the first place - they've got an opinion on Europe and Politics. Whereas those who didn't bother to vote are likely not UKIP supporters for the same reason.
I suspect we'll never be able to get such figures but if you looked out at the turnout as a percentage of people who support each party, UKIP would have a huge percentage turnout.
Which means its fairly accurate to say that support in the UK for UKIP is probably pretty close to the 30% of the 30% who voted..
EU immigrants can't claim benefits without having worked here first. What you're saying is a tabloid myth.
This is what worries me the most about the direction things are heading - people seem to have increasingly strong opinions on important subjects they appear to have done zero independent research on. So we get arknor convinced that people who can just rock up and claim benefits for the lulz without bothering to check his facts - I'd like to hope he wouldnt cast a vote based on these assumptions but...
There is absolutely nothing wrong with sitting down, considering the facts, educating yourself as to how the EU works and then deciding that on balance, you don't think it's a good idea and you think the UK would be better off outside of it. This is a rational, considered opinion.
There is everything wrong with the current trend of reading crap stories on rubbish newspapers, listening to other people spout BS and then deciding immigrants are the fault of everything, the EU sucks, and deciding we should be out of it as a result.
Both of those thought processes have the same net effect but IMHO only one is valid. Trouble with referendums and the like is the latter will dominate the former.
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