Coming second to whom? The multi-billionaires buying up all the new-build luxury apartments in London aren't European. They're Russians and Chinese. Leaving the EU won't make a scrap of difference to the upward pressure on house prices caused by this sort of property speculation.
If you mean immigrants, as I said before, less than half of our immigrants currently come from the EU. The majority (51%) come from non-EU countries. So if the government can't or won't stop non-EU immigration while we're in the EU, why should they stop it if we left? If businesses want cheap labour and native British people won't work for those wages, they'll import workers either legally or illegally. You're living in dreamland if you think that leaving the EU will magically stop foreigners coming here to work.
As for me, I'm voting remain because we in Wales do well out of the EU because it funds various important projects that we desperately need. I don't trust the Westminster government to replace that funding because they didn't care about the regions before we entered the EU and they don't need our votes in order to get elected, so they don't need to keep us happy. As far as Westminster is concerned, the regions don't exist.
I suspect your slogan is, "I want my country back." Though where you think it's gone or who stole it, I don't know. Wales was stolen by force (the castles are still there) and then the country's resources were plundered to make a few people very rich. In the 1980s, Thatcher screwed the miners and devastated the South Wales valleys by following free market principles. (It was cheaper to import Australian coal (note that Australia is not an EU country!) than to mine it here in Britain.) Finally, the life is coming back into South Wales. Railways and stations have reopened allowing people to travel to where the jobs are. Who paid for those projects? Why, the "evil" EU of course, along with the devolved Welsh assembly. So I'll be voting remain for good sound economic reasons.
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Date: 2016-06-19 08:14 am (UTC)If you mean immigrants, as I said before, less than half of our immigrants currently come from the EU. The majority (51%) come from non-EU countries. So if the government can't or won't stop non-EU immigration while we're in the EU, why should they stop it if we left? If businesses want cheap labour and native British people won't work for those wages, they'll import workers either legally or illegally. You're living in dreamland if you think that leaving the EU will magically stop foreigners coming here to work.
As for me, I'm voting remain because we in Wales do well out of the EU because it funds various important projects that we desperately need. I don't trust the Westminster government to replace that funding because they didn't care about the regions before we entered the EU and they don't need our votes in order to get elected, so they don't need to keep us happy. As far as Westminster is concerned, the regions don't exist.
I suspect your slogan is, "I want my country back." Though where you think it's gone or who stole it, I don't know. Wales was stolen by force (the castles are still there) and then the country's resources were plundered to make a few people very rich. In the 1980s, Thatcher screwed the miners and devastated the South Wales valleys by following free market principles. (It was cheaper to import Australian coal (note that Australia is not an EU country!) than to mine it here in Britain.) Finally, the life is coming back into South Wales. Railways and stations have reopened allowing people to travel to where the jobs are. Who paid for those projects? Why, the "evil" EU of course, along with the devolved Welsh assembly. So I'll be voting remain for good sound economic reasons.