http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...ou-can-t-believe-either-of-them-a6999166.html
Lies, damn lies and statistics! Both sides are lying to us. Must admit, I'd never heard of the "Rotterdam Effect" before.
Of course both sides will lie because they will skew the facts for their own means, there are actually no concrete facts available because no-one can predict the future. We will all have to decide on this by feeling and mostly feeling alone because there just are no facts until we know what will happen and we don't. Leave will say we are better off because of this and that. The stay in camp will also say the same but instead the other way around, no-one however can predict the future so any facts you will ever hear are not facts, they are predictions based upon data that works for that point of view. I'm sure any idiot could produce a set of data of why immigration works for us but someone else could produce another piece which says the opposite.
The actual fact is - If we were to leave it would take years to leave, it wouldn't happen overnight and in that time we won't go bankrupt, we will all still go to work and sell our goods or services to anyone who demands it no matter where they are. The company I work for trades across the world, not just the EU, I doubt we would care whether the country remains in the EU because it will NOT change the simple fact there is always going to be a demand for these services regardless. Leaving would take adaptation but that is what humans do best, people will find new markets where new demand opens up and there will be new jobs and opportunity whilst some areas equally will collapse, that isn't about the EU, it is life.
With a referendum looming you would think a multi national like ours would be all over the place on decision making but it isn't, there is actual zero mention of the EU within the company because no matter what, does it matter that much, we will trade whilst there is demand and that is not going to change just because we are no longer a member of a trading bloc. Some of our biggest partners are based in the EU and they are not going to cut the telephone wire just because we are suddenly not in some autocratic union with their parent country. No, instead they will demand the exact same as they always have, no-one in business could really care less apart from those who stand to lose out personally.
I am still undecided but I am leaning to leave simply because I don't believe the EU works for us anymore as people, we are a growing and large economy which just does not fit into an EU containing countries that are falling apart. I'm not one to pull the ladder up but now the EU is only working for the EU and accountability just does not exist, that is the only reason. I feel European but I don't feel a part of the so called democracy we see in Brussels, it is just another FIFA like organisation full of parasites. I would vote for a properly reformed EU membership but that isn't on the voting card.
Personally, I don't care about anything else, I think free movement is fantastic because it means we have millions of skilled people on our doorstep but still even if we left, we can give people visa's, it just isn't a problem. There is nothing on the leave or stay in agenda that really bothers me that much, I think we will be fine either way but the one option that presents more opportunity and democracy for a start is to leave. Staying means we have to accept the EU for what it is and what it will become and since I did not vote for the people who will decide that future, it doesn't sit well with me.
Anyway, no matter what nothing is going to change, we will all still be able to holiday in the EU, we will all still have jobs and life will go on like it always has. If anyone is really worrying about this vote I really wouldn't, just vote how you think and the day after you will continue with your life as normal. When you hear all the rubbish in the news and on TV just remember, the only people talking loudly about these things are the politicians and people who have the most to lose.
