The United Kingdom is better off leaving the EU.

Opening StatementThis section is losing relevance, so the rebuttals will be brief. My opponent argues that lack of regulation, which is an artifact of a laissez-faire capitalism, was partially responsible for the 2008 market crash and thus the percieved movement away from laissez-faire policy within the EU is justified. Since inception, banks have faced more and more regulation - most notably in modern times, leading to a scenerio in which it is fundamentally impossible to setup a banking institution, which has led to horrible banking practices and inefficiences. This hypothesis is evidenced by periods of free banking, like in Scotland during 1716 and 1845, which resulted in 'highly stable and competitive' banking system. It remains true that a generally laissez-faire system has presided over the greatest periods of growth in human civilisation, and therefore it would be a mistake to move away from such a system. Democratic DeficitNot a single word in the article you cited that documents Adolf Hitlers rise to power suggests that the rise of NSDAPcan to attributed to 'pure democracy'(proportional represenation) and the Weimar economy was in a mess because it had just lost a war and faced heavy sanctions, not because it was too democratic. Besides, my opponent ignores the fact that countless modern democracies use proportional representaion, and remain wealthy and free nation states.My opponent concedes that a democratic deficit exists within the EU, but remarks that I am exaggerating this. I'd love to defend my viewpoint, but the opponent provides no further refutations to my points. As my opponent says, the EU has been changing since it's formation, as I mentioned previously: every new treaty lead to a more and more centralized Europe, removing further powers from nation states, including the treaty of Lisbon. There is a 'better alternative; for Britain, and that's becoming a sovereign nation once again, and the supposed costs of leaving have been addressed within the other sections.Single MarketFirstly, how is it ludicrous to suggest that the United Kingdom could remain in the single if it left the EU, given that Switzerland and Norway both enjoy access to the EU single market without being members of the union. Secondly, as the collective EU has a larger population, it's labour markets are proportionally less affected by such layoffs, despite more EU citizens becoming unemployed and an extremely high unemployment rate of around 11.5% in the EU, which would be 13% if the UK was not a member - given that the UK's unemployment rate is only 6%. None of this changes the fact the it is in the interests of both the United Kingdom and the EU to preserve a trade deal between each other. Although trade with EU woud be restricted by EU legislation, the other 80% of the United Kingdom's GDP would no longer be hindered by EU legislation.Open BordersI have provided evidence for all three of those claims in the list of references, my apolgies for not inserting them earlier. With regard to the Romanian crime epidemic, several established statistics can outline the scale of the problem: “92 per cent of all ATM crime in London is committed by Romanians national gangs.” and “28,000 Romanians were arrested in the last five years in the Metropolitan Police area alone. Even though the Romanian national population in the UK is around 95,000.” Free movement of labour is not viable between countries with massive economic and welfare disparity.It is undisputed that excess supply of unskilled workers will lead to wage compression and unemployment. As previously stated, a study showed for every 1% rise in the share of migrants in the UK-born working age population, there was 0.6% trimmed off the wages of the bottom 5% of earners and a 0.4% fall for the lowest 10%. Another study showed that EU migration has a significant negative effect on lower wages. Both these studies are extremely reputed, and they go quite a bit more in depth than correlation equals causation.Political PowerThe United Kingdom can no longer control it's own rules, so how could joining the EU have increased political power. Far from increasing British influence in the world, the EU is undermining UK influence. The EU is demanding there is a single voice for the EU in the UN and in the IMF. The EU has also made the British economy and City of London less competitive through overregulation, and negotiates more protectionist and less effective trade deals on behalf of the UK. Global warming is not relevant to Political Power, but I will address it nonetheless. The reason the United Kingdom is no longer involved as involved in manufacturing partially due to the Climate change and protectionist legislation that have only served the large energy corporations. By shifting manufacturing to India and China, these companies have just avoided enviromental taxes and started paying lower wages to cheaper workers. Any tax or legislation has consequences, largely for the medium and small-sized business that are the foundation of the British economy and implementing such legislature has only cost our economy under the pretense of protecting the enviroment.Referenceshttp://economics.about.com...https://en.wikipedia.org...http://www.tradingeconomics.com...http://www.met.police.uk...http://www.bbc.co.uk...http://www.dailymail.co.uk...http://blogs.channel4.com...https://ideas.repec.org...Thanks for the debate. It was relatively enjoyable.