Comments by "Awesome Avenger" (@awesomeavenger2810) on "Brexit breakdown: southern discomfort | Anywhere but Westminster" video.

  1. This is like watching an Alan Partridge documentary
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  2. Falling living standards would, of course, have much to do with spending cuts. But thats as far as some people are prepared to go. They won't attempt to recognise the massive debt the country is in. £39 billion a year wasted on debt interest repayments - thats more than the housing and environment budget combined. And something like a quarter of the entire NHS budget. So when people complain about the lack of affordable housing, they should know why. And mass immigration impacts on the poorest of society. They end up competing with immigrants for cheap housing. And social housing. And often find themselves undercut when it comes to wages. While the middle class Guardian types see mass immigration in terms of how much less it will cost them to order a latte at Starbucks. Or how much cheaper they can get their bins emptied. Immigrants from poor parts of the EU move to the UK to make a better life for themselves. So when they get here they start off on the bottom rung of the ladder. But they bring with them a work ethic that comes with leaving your home country and having to learn a different language. They end up living in poor areas. That's who that lady who had apparently never heard of Brexit, and people like her, people with mental health problems, drug problems, end up competing with. And they can't. Very few people blame immigrants for falling living standards. They blame immigration policy. 300,000 extra people coming into the country every year is bound to have an impact. And its not just on local cuisine. But on things like services, the same services that poorer people rely on, more than the comfortably off. And you can argue that public services need to be better funded, but then that takes us right back to square one again - National debt. The money isn't there.
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  3.  @LabRat6619  You have to think long term. The EU isn't just some trade bloc. Its a political union. And you can't base a political union on threats. You need democratic legitimacy, and thats something the EU project has never had. Even most remainers have no loyalty to the EU. They just voted remain because they feared the consequences of not doing so (as your reply shows). Thats hardly a sound foundation for political union. The UK will be better off out.
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  4. People are divided every time there's an election. This is the first time one side has ever refused to recognise the result. Thats where the division comes from
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  5. Sold as a trading block. In reality a political union. So never had a mandate.
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  6.  @homosexualpanic  I forget the details now, but the £350 million figure is accurate, if you don't take into account some kind of rebate. So sure, you could say it was 'creative accounting', but then thats just how politics works. So its certainly no worse than any other claim made in any other general election. And the point was that the UK can better spend its own money than the EU. As for misinformation, a lot of promises where made by the remain campaign that they knew very well weren't true. Like plans for an EU army, that would undermine NATO, and mean that foreign policy would be set in Brussels. An argument that the remain campaign didnt want to have to get in to, so they simply denied it all.
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