Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
Surely you don't really believe that suddenly all trade between EU and UK would suddenly cease to exist? This debate should be about political accountability, not scaremongering about the supposed envanishment of the economy. Britain can still have healthy trade agreements. EU countries aren't going to suddenly impose sanctions on Britain and refuse to trade with it. The UK is the fifth largest economy in the world, and EU countries are still going to want to trade with it.

There was all this fearmongering about how disastrous it would be to not adopt the Euro.

Same with immigration from Europe. This vote isn't about sending people home and not allowing anyone else in. We can still have healthy immigration, although we will be more able to manage the best rate of doing this.
No, see, the political accountability thing is your *thing*. Personally I dont get it, mostly as I've stated before that I dont believe we've got anything like a properly functional democracy here anyway. You can bang on about unelected officials all you want but when we have an unelected house of lords and a hereditary head of state it's less than pointless.

Also, I wasnt scaremongering, I was pointing out the softer and much more valuable EU benefits when set against the net contribution argument.

The thing which, more than everything else, gets me is that we actually had more immigration from outside europe than we did from the EU last year. Given that fact do we really think we'll be able to "control" it better in the future?