The notion that without immigrants from the EU that we'd suddenly all have jobs is simply fanciful.
Yes, I agree it is fanciful. But it's also crazy for this country to have so many o its own hom-grown citizens languishing on benefits because they do not have the skills that employers require, so the employers recruit from the wider EU.
Years ago employeres would take someone, usually a young person, who had few skills and would train them. The training budgets in most organistaions have withered away, as they can just 'import' people with teh skills they need. That does not benefit the lowly skilled domestic unemployed. Hence I get on a bus driven by a Polish bus driver to eat a meal at a restaurant where I'm served by a Slovakian waitress and the taxi driver home is Croatian. All entitled to work in this country and all working very hard in jobs with anti-social hours. But you cannot deny that they are also taking the sort of jobs that could be done with some upskilling of the unemployed domestic population.
So immigration is good for employers, but not so good for those who are in direct competition for the type of work the non-Bristish EU workers are undertaking.
Also if the EU is such a bad thing. Then why have so many countries flocked to join and want to join. Look at Ukraine. They're literally spilling blood for the chance to join in the future.
Not Crimea. It voted to align itself with Russia. The EU is only popular with the rump of Ukraine because it's not Russia. They will soon realise who dictatorial the EU can be.
Scotland definitely wants to join if they become independent
For the EU handouts.
and Wales wants to stay in the EU too.
I haven't seen a poll of the Welsh on that subject.
So why oh why are we so keen to get out?
For the reasons that makes Britain such an attractive place to emigrate to - our sense of 'fair play'. We do not like being told what to do by an an undemocratic, unelected body that has a toothless Parliament (as Kinnock admitted) that cannot make decisions - only ratify those made by non-elected bureaucrats.
We don't want to funnel 55M a day of UK tax-payers money into an organistaion whose accounts are so poor the auditors have refused to sign them off.
We don't want to be part of an organisation that aspires to have its own defence policy and the force to implement it. We don't need it, we have Nato. Try defending the Falkands when you have to rely on the EU for the means to do so. They wouldn;t even sell us the bullets the last time.
We don't need to be part of an outdated protectionist organistaion that prevents us from making our own trade deals with other countries and to be free from the EU retsrictions and tarrifs it imposes on imports from outside the EU.
It's s form of communism. We pay in and other countries take out. Why - because we are told they are our 'partners' and everyone within in this group should be brught up to the same standard. So we are effectively subsidising countries that should be our trading competeitors. That makes us uncompetitive.
I could probably think up another 10 good reasons.