All the main proponents of the EU actually want no borders, free movement of people and free movement of money and goods between the UK and the EU in general. If the UK remains in the EU be under no misapprehension that eventually the UK will be fully integrated into the EU, the only issue will be whether this process takes ten or fifty years.
So, lets assume that the UK Remains in the EU. Is that a problem? Is it a problem as great as terrorism?
First, lets get terrorism in perspective. Five people a year have died of terrorism on average over the past 10 years. So is membership of the EU more dangerous?
The first problem is that almost all EU citizens have the right to come to the UK. This is what free movement of labour means. When the large countries of the EU are considered England has by far the highest population density with only about 0.6 of an acre per person. It is already overcrowded and growing rapidly.
The population growth in the UK due to migrants and the children of migrants accounts for all UK population growth. (The growth due to increase amongst other parts of the population is equalled by emigration). Without migration the UK population would not be growing at all. With migration the population is likely to top 70m by 2035. How far is this a risk? It is a risk simply from factors such as increased traffic density and the stress of life, more people are likely to die in car accidents and heart attacks due to this than due to terrorism. In the longer term overpopulation is a huge risk because the UK population is already higher than the capacity of the land to feed it. This means that wars, large increases in food prices or climate change could cause famine and thousands or millions of deaths.
Overpopulation is many thousands of times more dangerous than terrorism.
What of risk of war? The UK bombing of Syria occurred in response to a request to the EU Council by France. The Council then requested aid from the member states, votes and decisions were taken all over the EU and the UK got involved in bombing Syria. The war in the Ukraine occurred as a result of the protests against the withdrawal of the Ukraine from an EU Association agreement. The EU has a major military intervention in East Africa. Overall, because the EU has borders with a host of unstable states the UK is exposed to considerable risk of war.
Then there is the risk to our society itself. Most states in the EU have lived under dictatorship or authoritarian control within living memory. Several have even indulged in ethnic cleansing in recent memory. The UK will be relinquishing centuries of relatively stable and democratic government to the EU which is composed of many countries with a very poor history of stable democracy. Future generations are at high risk. The UK itself is not "at risk", we can say that the disappearance of the UK as a self governing entity is a certainty.
The countries of the EU have few jury trials and countries like Germany do not use juries at all. When we are integrated into the EU as a region we will eventually adopt the EU legal system. Ideals such as fairness stem from the UK legal system where juries keep overbearing court officials and government in check. When it has gone our very way of life will go.
25/4/16
So, lets assume that the UK Remains in the EU. Is that a problem? Is it a problem as great as terrorism?
First, lets get terrorism in perspective. Five people a year have died of terrorism on average over the past 10 years. So is membership of the EU more dangerous?
The first problem is that almost all EU citizens have the right to come to the UK. This is what free movement of labour means. When the large countries of the EU are considered England has by far the highest population density with only about 0.6 of an acre per person. It is already overcrowded and growing rapidly.
The population growth in the UK due to migrants and the children of migrants accounts for all UK population growth. (The growth due to increase amongst other parts of the population is equalled by emigration). Without migration the UK population would not be growing at all. With migration the population is likely to top 70m by 2035. How far is this a risk? It is a risk simply from factors such as increased traffic density and the stress of life, more people are likely to die in car accidents and heart attacks due to this than due to terrorism. In the longer term overpopulation is a huge risk because the UK population is already higher than the capacity of the land to feed it. This means that wars, large increases in food prices or climate change could cause famine and thousands or millions of deaths.
Overpopulation is many thousands of times more dangerous than terrorism.
What of risk of war? The UK bombing of Syria occurred in response to a request to the EU Council by France. The Council then requested aid from the member states, votes and decisions were taken all over the EU and the UK got involved in bombing Syria. The war in the Ukraine occurred as a result of the protests against the withdrawal of the Ukraine from an EU Association agreement. The EU has a major military intervention in East Africa. Overall, because the EU has borders with a host of unstable states the UK is exposed to considerable risk of war.
Then there is the risk to our society itself. Most states in the EU have lived under dictatorship or authoritarian control within living memory. Several have even indulged in ethnic cleansing in recent memory. The UK will be relinquishing centuries of relatively stable and democratic government to the EU which is composed of many countries with a very poor history of stable democracy. Future generations are at high risk. The UK itself is not "at risk", we can say that the disappearance of the UK as a self governing entity is a certainty.
The countries of the EU have few jury trials and countries like Germany do not use juries at all. When we are integrated into the EU as a region we will eventually adopt the EU legal system. Ideals such as fairness stem from the UK legal system where juries keep overbearing court officials and government in check. When it has gone our very way of life will go.
25/4/16
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