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I'm not sure if I can motivate you with this but - I know it comes with a lot of disadvantages, but the EU is becoming more toxic each year, and also grows in s
by sgt 4y ago
I'm not sure if I can motivate you with this but - I know it comes with a lot of disadvantages, but the EU is becoming more toxic each year, and also grows in scope with seemingly no end in sight.
Being a part of the EU was the wrong call for the UK, in my opinion.
Brexit implementation was painful like a bandaid, but in the long term you will benefit from this.
The price you'll need to pay is just worse economy for a decade or two, and more difficult travel/work etc, but you will have more freedom as an independent nation. That has real value.
- javajosh 4y agoI haven't seen an HN post that content-free in a very long time. Congratulations?
- sgt 4y agoI could easily be more specific but, why? It's done. Try to focus on the positive aspects of being outside the EU.
- javajosh 4y ago>why? Because without content, a comment is useless, empty propaganda. If you have a position, feel free to argue it by stating your principles, the facts, and how applying the principles to those facts lead you to the position. Otherwise you're noise at best, and a bad-faith actor looking less to persuade others to your view and more to simply damage others by wasting their time, at worst. And frankly, certain positions, like yours, for example, are closely associated with bad faith actors, so you might have to work even harder to assure readers.
- sgt 4y agoOkay, then how about this: By being part of the EU, a country will be spending part of a massive and bureaucratic organization that has failed financial audits for 2 decades (a measurable argument) and basically gives you less and less control over your own actions as a nation. If you happen to be less keen on immigration, then the EU is also a bad place as the enforcement is pretty weak. I think those are pretty reasonable arguments that come down to one thing: autonomy for nation states.
- pjc50 4y agoWhat's done can be undone.
- lamontcg 4y ago> Try to focus on the positive aspects Which are? I never see anything other than vague and vacuous emotional appeals in the positive column. By now people should be able to point at concrete positive outcomes.
- easytiger 4y agoOnce the EU gets rid of the veto, countries that aren't France and Germany are in a LOT of trouble.