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The EU, it's a mess. But they do have both the power and will to do something the UK government never would... to take on the multinationals and banks.
If anyone in this country thinks things are bad now, things are not as bad as when you remove the EU from the equation.
Tax avoidance/evasion by multinationals and banks, tax havens (mostly run by the City of London)... this was the single issue for me.
It's always about the economy.
Well put. I'm IN.
General_Lucifer
Tax avoidance is the reason I voted remain.
It was the single issue for me. The whole referendum was too complex and none of the real issues were discussed, but I went through a process of prioritising what I felt was important until I reduced it to tax.
The UK is wealthy, the EU is wealthy. The class divides are entrenched, the rich get richer and the poor poorer, and even the middle class is dramatically reduced. There is finite wealth at any time, and it is distributed badly and the distribution gets worse each yeah... the rough conclusion I reached was that the technological revolution, has delivered efficiencies over the past 30 years to identify not just where to save cash and how to profit better, but also enormous automation of accounting and law... the rich, their companies, have never ever been more efficient machines of moving wealth from the lower echelons of society to the upper.
In my view, this whole referendum is only occurring because that efficiency finally hit the middle class who are outraged that they are not as wealthy as they once were. They've mistakenly blamed immigrants, whereas they should blame government for rimming banks and multi-nationals for so long that they'd rather do that than serve their people.
The EU, it's a mess. But they do have both the power and will to do something the UK government never would... to take on the multinationals and banks. It may be slow and archaic, but they do get there eventually. Herding cats, but you still would not want to be in the way once the herd arrives.
If anyone in this country thinks things are bad now, things are not as bad as when you remove the EU from the equation.
Tax avoidance/evasion by multinationals and banks, tax havens (mostly run by the City of London)... this was the single issue for me.
It's always about the economy.