What I would love to know from the outters is what is Britains future in the world?
Do you want EEA - I assume not based on comments on controlling law/immigration?
What does Britain offer in trade deals that other countries cannot get for themselves?
What is the future of Britain's economy?
Where will economic growth come from without immigration? If immigration continues where will it come from?
How will returning Brits be accommodated and how will this ageing of the population be addressed?
What are the actual laws that need to be changed?
How will Britain approach a world outside Europe? What level of UK bueraucracy will need to be changed?
Etc etc
1. In order, I'm not particularly concerned about having an EEA. We should be able to compete within Europe and the world on commercial terms.
2. We have an established financial services and service sector we are also pretty good in scientific and product innovation. I agree we haven't got much of a manufacturing sector compared to many others, and I put that down in part to being in the EU
3. Britains economy will be at least what it will be if we stay in the EU, get outside and I think we will prosper. Let me ask at this stage why are we paying French and German power companies more for the electricity we as consumers and Businesses use than they pay in Germany and France to name but two?
4. For as long as we are dependent upon immigrants to work and deliver services alongside our unemployment figures, and don't believe all you read. In Oz about how well we're doing in terms of job creation. We have a massive amount of people who have had to go self employed and who work for very low wages, plus there is a huge dependency on zero hour contracts. It ain't good here, trust me.
5. Well I would have no objection to having non Brits working here if there is work for them, by that I mean if there's no work they'll need to return to their bative country and claim their benefits and child allowance there's, not here. I would expect the same to apply to Brits abroad, work if there is work, if can manage without a wage, i.e. On pensions and savings then great... our government still pays the pension to those who go overseas as well as to those who come here from overseas, it just doesn't work.
6&7 are good questions that need to be worked out though it will mainly be about unpicking ourselves from all the red tape and governance that has imposed upon us BH the EU.
I appreciate you won't agree with many or indeed any of the above but the thought of remaining under the control of a massive unelected bureaucracy really makes me wonder why we ever let it get this far.
