The United Kingdom Should Leave the European Union

Not such a big deal though - my argument largely rests on simple refutation, as my case is that the UK would not significantly feel the effects of leaving the EU, and that is should leave the EU because the EU needs to be dissolved because 1. It is. by nature, imperialist and undemocratic and 2. It"s unsustainable. 1. Economy I already went on to refute this, as did my source - the statistic here implied is misleading. 1 million jobs wouldn"t be "lost", they"d just end up converted to import substitution. Of course, the CBI"s current President is Paul Drechsler, who also just so happens to be the Chairman of Bibby Line, a shipping company set to lose some business should the UK leave the EU, and who would seek to gain from a diminishing UK crude oil market outside of the EU, as they have the exclusive rights to deliver decommissioning pipelines in the North Sea. (1) The article also cites JP Morgan and Citi, who of course warn against Brexit; if the UK leaves and the pound falls, they"d be set to lose huge amounts of money considering they have banks throughout Europe. (2) And, of course, despite JP Morgan"s warnings, they seem to be up-selling the everloving sh*t out of British stock right now, claiming that, despite all their naysaying to the press, "now is the time to buy UK stocks". (3) And even in the case that the government has to use their new surplus cash to create new jobs - remember: this is worst case scenario if British import substitution doesn"t occur automatically (which it likely will) - the notion that a conservative government would allow another 1 million citizens to sit unproductively on the dole, most of whom would become fervent Labour supporters in the face of this inaction, (as I"ll get deeper into in my next point) is absurd. 2. Worker"s Rights The Conservatives certainly won"t increase the minimum wage or extend worker"s protections, but they won"t be able to leave the EU and not establish their own analogous laws in lieu of the EU ones. To say they wouldn"t is outrageous - it would be political suicide. There"s that old conservative axiom that states that entitlements parcelled out aren"t easily redacted: should the UK suddenly dial so severely back on worker"s rights, ensuing a sort of dystopic Worker"s Dark Age, there could - at the very least - be no foreseeable Conservative government the next election year, particularly when those reliant on the minimum wage are expected to double by 2020. (4) (5) It would be a complete public relations disaster, essentially do Labour"s job for them, and possibly incur them the wrath of the ILO. The assertion that some leave campaigners oppose increases in minimum wage and worker"s protections, therefore leave wants to "get rid of worker"s rights" is sensationalist, and the conclusion does not follow from the premise. 3. Reforming the EU The EU is broken, and that breakage is in its DNA. It requires more than reform, it requires disintegration. The EU"s legislative power needs to be reduced and checked, and the Eurozone doesn"t work and needs to be phazed out. (6) Apocalyptic naysayers on the issue tend to point towards a new balkanization, death of trade, unprecedented inflation, and complete economic destabilization, but almost all of this presupposes that a post-EU Europe would revert to a pre-modern ultranationalist hellscape. It isn"t as if the dissolution of the EU would necessarily preclude any form of continental assembly, or agreements such as East Asia"s APT, or North America"s NAFTA, or NAACE,or NAALC, or NATO which most of them are already in, etc. The European Union is imperialism with a human face (), a force of privileged nations holding the leashes of those less endowed through veiled coercion. (7) The existence of the EU alone is what is fuelling the rise of the radical right in Europe, via a European crisis of identity. (8) The UK cannot hope to amend democracy in the EU when the EU"s existence is contributing to the breakdown of democracy within the nations of Europe themselves. Forgive me - gotta run to a doctor"s appointment I forgot about - will reply to points 4 and 5 in the comments later, hopefully, as I"m running out of time. xoxo bangers and mash big ben etc. (1) . http://www.energyjobline.com... (2) . http://www.bloomberg.com... (3) . http://www.marketwatch.com... (4) . http://www.mirror.co.uk... (5) . http://www.theguardian.com... (6) . http://www.theatlantic.com... (7) . http://www.stateofnature.org... (8) . http://socialsciences.scielo.org...