First thread in AIBU. I'm a Brit and have worked for almost 20 years for the Commission in Brussels. Obviously, I'm pro-EU. But not blind to the failings of any human-made Institution.
Anyways, I have always been shocked by the press coverage of EU issues in the UK - through straight bananas, bent cucumbers etc. But now, the "facts" being delivered on the "perks" of EU officials have gone truly overboard. Read this week in the Guardian that one of my perks is for my kids to be educated at "private school". WTF. They go to a European school - means it's run directly by the national education departments of EU Member States and has separate language sections. So mine are in the anglophone section (also for Irish kids). One is in a class of 29; the other 30. No teaching assistants. The parents have been asked by the teacher to organise a rota for coming to school (each of us once a week) as she is at her limits. School built for 2,500 kids but currently housing 3,500. Regular stints for some classes in porta-cabins. Teachers do their best but resources very stretched.
AIBU to hope that my fellow Brits would like to hear facts rather than opinions (and that's being kind, a lot of it is downright lies) before making up their mind about the EU. Like that Norway today - as a non-meber - pays more than the UK does - as a member - for the right to access the single market and with no right to influence any of the laws adopted by the European Parliament and Council?