The Brexit video is a great watch. Of course both sides have their propaganda, but for the main it relates to me on how I see things from a small business perspective. The video mentions how corporations are tightening the reigns to take full control, especially with likely having TTIP in the mix as well.
As a small business I can see from both ends of the scale from the rich and poor how both sides are losing. A small business can make good money and employ people, but it is getting harder to climb the ladder with tax, V.A.T, paying workers’ pensions, pay rise to the living wage. At the other end rich companies are being penalised the same way, the only difference is they can afford to have their pot eaten into gradually for now anyway. No worker over the tax threshold gets a tax break, yet there are police cuts, armed forces cuts, public services cuts and so forth. And with pensions going that is more expense on employers and employees.
If I want to employ someone it is a lot harder now as I will have to contribute towards their pension which as a new business only a few years old it will be harder to do on top of having to save for my own pension, pay the same taxes, pay higher prices for goods, petrol etc. Supermarkets and banks are two of the biggest industries, yet banks are closing all over as online is taking over and supermarkets employ part time to save money. They can all afford to look after their workers, but it is less profit of course.
When we are paperless and all online we will not have any cash in hand workers, or perhaps paying tax at carboots. Anyone notice how the contactless card limit keeps increasing and current paypal adverts of; ‘paper money is old money.’ ?? – this will perhaps be the next squeeze. As many companies will survive on cash in hand so it will kill that.
The reason why I have said the above is to paint a picture on how my own research, views and the Brexit movie show how this is happening. Bit by bit we are all having our earnings chipped away. So it looks like the distant future is going to be corporations only in power and capitalism as we know will exist but on a small scale. In affect we will be; ‘Mini me Russia, just the two of us.’ The people that have already made their money can relax but their kids are going to struggle. Sure if you are hard working and have a good personality you can climb the rubble, but the rubble gets slippier and slippier as the years go on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDzoLUzwMMI
I believe this vote is all about us the public getting used to being a EU country. Before this debate it has always been talk about Britain, British values etc. For the first time the media have overly talked about us being; ‘one state’. Cameron said it last year quite often calling us; ‘one nation,’ instead of Britain. All in all I feel this great big debate is just a ploy to get us ready for waving goodbye to Britain as it once was and when we don’t like it the government will just go; ‘Well you did vote remain, our hands are tied.’ Too much money, vision and time has been pumped into the EU for the elite to go; ‘oh well.’ Even Obama said on paper he is the most powerful man on the planet, but can’t change anything. Obviously not the most powerful man, the people that pull his strings are.
Leaving the EU is my way of standing up for humanity and fighting back against corporations. Judges should laugh at how ridiculous TTIP is for example, not make it reality. We are living in the era where greedy people addicted by money own us all. Look at Fracking! No one wants it but a few greedy people get capital gain from it, so it is accepted and going ahead. I genuinely laugh at people that still believe we live in a free democratic world… The public haven’t won a major vote since the Falklands war.
There was a time when working after 6pm entitled time and a quarter, Saturday was time and a half and people were so thankful when someone worked on a Sunday. Look at it now. Now kids that want to work feel lucky if they work half a day Sunday for minimal wage. I wonder what the evolution we are facing today is going to be in the future. Also I hear reports of people leaving the NHS after 50 years service and there is not one thankyou, or leaving gift for all the hard work and dedication. It is just another number out the door and move on with the next person. Empathy is a dying word.
My biggest concern with the EU is: With Turkey, Serbia, Albania and other countries looking at joining the EU and for the EU to say yes, you need to wonder why? Especially when all EU countries will be paying these countries to join. I suspect there is a lot more to it than a trade block. The more Europe expands closer to China and Russia surely Russia and China will have to also join the EU or there will likely be conflict. If you look at the world map and the EU allies and with the middle East being bombed to hell, the world is looking like a smaller place to the non EU countries. The media where-ever possible slate Russia I wonder why? Just my own theory that I hope is wrong.
I hope if we do Brexit more countries leave the EU and we can get back to being a part of mother nature and not a machine where all countries can work together without the need to be dictated to by one force controlling all.
Below are a few IN and OUT views of mine, there is enough information out there already via documentaries to write everything down.
Staying in the EU
* The armed forces will still be cut year by year to make way for a Euro armed force
*MPs and landlords will continue to buy up houses for rental.
*Housing prices will continue to rise to out-market the general public for rental Britain.
*The NHS will continue to fail and be privatised.
* Cheap phone calls on holiday
* Live and work abroad you still get a UK pension (for now)
* Current workforce that only exists because of the EU, keep their jobs. (Hopefully just MPs’ with their made up roles)
* TTIP is not re-negotiated. TTIP is a law for corporations. If Lion blood healed wrinkles and a company wanted Lion blood to make billions they could sue Africa if they disagreed to them killing Lions. Who the hell would action this? The EU are close to.
* Everything stays the same. Expensive living, tax breaks to corporations, job losses.
* Rise in factory farming with mass migration to include more land loss with house building, increase in waste and landfill sites.
*No border control. I appreciate Cameron says we can control our borders without leaving the EU. We already know this, we also already know he has not done anything about it in 5 years of people wanting this.
Out the EU
* Re-negotiate TTIP
* I believe increase in armed forces so higher employment.
* Controlling borders to calm factory farming , land loss and huge landfills of waste will be cut down. To also helping migrants stop risking their lives crossing the border from France and having to live like pigs in the camps waiting to come over. If the system wasn’t there they would have to deal with austerity in their own countries. I am ashamed how thousands of Syrians lost their lives crossing the Med to get to Greek Islands for them to get shipped back like they are nothing.
* The companies that are reported at risk of job losses from the EU, make millions / billions of pounds so it is up to how greedy the boss is on how many job losses there are if there is a brexit .
* House prices may drop.
* It is hard to respect Nigel Farage as he was a EU fisheries committee member and he did not turn up hardly ever to the meetings for him to then use it as a ploy to gain votes. So he was a part of ruining Britain’s fisheries. However if we leave the EU, employment will rise for fishermen if we get control back of our seas and I feel we should look at the bigger picture and not the representative. How ‘Mr David never told a single truth Cameron’ is heading the IN campaign I do not know.
Individual issues raised above are our own country issues but with the bigger picture it is not hard to see it ties in with the EU and the bigger agenda. Whatever happens on the 23rd of June. Good luck to everyone and whatever happens I hope it is the right choice.
Tom Abrams
