On balance, the UK made the correct decision in voting to leave the European Union.

Contention 1: SecurityOne of the key issues that I'm quite sure that you have heard of is the issue of immigration. In the EU, there is a system known as the Schengen Information System, also known as SIS. This is the system that pratically allows for almost unrestricted immigration. The UK is not appart of SIS, but the current EU laws on immigration allows people to get passports and other documents which fast track UK immigration procedures [1]. People are able to forge these and there have been many cases about Italian passports being forged. This allows people get into Britian almost instantly. Currently, during the Syrian refuggee crisis the EU is requiring that all member states to take in refuggees. The standing fine is 250,000 Euros for each refuggee these states turn down [2]. The UK is not obligated to abide by it, but other nations required can give these refuggees documents that can get them into the UK which would allow more and more refugges into the nation. Boarders would not be secure. The issue caused by this is there are many terrorists invading Europe masquerading as refugees. Germany has discovered this the hard way as they have found several refugees to have ties to ISIS [3]. Reports have shown that in the past year that nearly half of all of the terror attacks in Europe have happened in the UK [4]. This has caused a major problem, not only for the coutnry, but their economy. These terror strikes can have devistating effects on the economy. We can see that there are instances of strikes and there are both long term and short term effects. Some of the short term effects are building destruction, loss of life and such while long term can be loss of confidence. To put this in perspective 9/11 had the short term impact loss of $27 billion while the long term was $3.3 trillion [5]. We can see that the 100's of terror strikes on the UK will have a huge effect on the economy and if the UK was the stay in the EU, not only would they be forced to either take in fines or refugees. The terror strikes in the UK would increase leading to greating econ loss or they would suffer by trying to defend their boarders to refuse the massive influx of refugees. Contention 2: SovereigntyThe next issue here is the British sovereignty. It is no secrete that the EU has began to start to federalize its member nations. Reports have shown that in last September that many member states: Germany, France, Italy, and a few other nations have gotten together and have began to draw up documents to begin to Centralize Europe again [6]. This has been a repetitive aspect that has been again and again that Europe has tried this. The EU has been shown to have requiring their member states to follow many rules and regulations that violate national sovereignty. The EU had began to work on a Constitution in 2005 for a "United States of Europe. " They are currently working on an increased Centralized Europe that would severely crack down on more "exit" movements in the EU [7]. The UK made the correct decission here as they would have had their nation crushed and punished under such a movement had they have ended up staying in the EU. Sources1. (. http://tinyurl.com...) 2. (. http://tinyurl.com...) 3. (. http://tinyurl.com...) 4. (. http://tinyurl.com...) 5. (. http://tinyurl.com...) 6. (. http://tinyurl.com...) 7. (. http://tinyurl.com...)