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Originally Posted by Adje
I suspect that frustration has clouded many minds. It won't get any better for the Britts. More expensive, yes. Maybe they will benefit from it on a long term, nobody knows, but not for the next few years. Still I wish good luck to them all  |
A lot of misinformation has clouded many younger minds too who do not appear to grasp the difference between the EU and Europe. I believe bad education, propaganda and indoctrination is to blame there. The EU in its current form has only properly been going since the mid nineties and its biggest experiment, fiscal union through single currency has been a total disaster for Greece and Spain. This was not overlooked in my own judgement.
The UK should indeed pay more for certain things (as a percentage of income), such as healthcare. We rank much lower than Germany and The Netherlands. And we should pay less for shoebox properties and rail fares. The Netherlands has decent rail fare system. We have a terrible supply and demand one were you take one train stop further and can end up paying double the rail fare. The EU was not helping with such important matters in my opinion. Just longing for that one extra bureaucratic layer to come along and everything will be fine didn't seem to be helping us, nor people in other countries.
That's what I made from things anyway + a lot of other thought and philosophy about big government, taxes and who has the right to cast a vote etc.