@baldelectrician
The services industry when in the EU had unlimited access to millions of EU citizens which consequently drove wages down, in leaving the EU the EU will not in any way block access to their workers as it often sees financial gain across Europe as well as reducing unemployment rate which is a major issue in many of the EU nations, the UK now will only offer jobs if we have a shortage, this has 2 effects, it will increase wages as well as protect British jobs, this position that Brexit is somehow negative because of the service industry is unfounded unless you wish to enlighten me which I am all too willing to see differing opinions... the losers here are the EU and big corporations that used cheap labour, the winners are the UK with more job opportunities, better wages and consequently more money returning into our own economy.
I do not agree with unfair wage competition driving wages down but we have that already - look at the shops etc that pay such low wages people need tax credits / universal credit and food banks to help people.
The problem there was not the EU but the UK state promoting zero hours contracts and a low wage economy
The service industry is important to the UK, as I said earlier we can leave the EU but this will be detrimental to some industries-
- Banking, insurance and fiance need common EU laws to trade in to and within the EU market- for example you used to have hassle taking money to Spain on holiday or taking it out the cash machine- that's not a problem inside the EU as there is free movement of money.
- I was doing a job for a guy who was selling his house and moving to the Czech republic- I asked him why. His answer was that he worked for a software company making mobile phone apps and his boss gave him 3 choices (they said they thought the UK was leaving the single market) the first choice was to be made redundant, the second was to move to the companies office in Poland and the third was to move to their office in the Czech republic- that's your services market right there.
- If a local train manufacturing company make a train and sell it to the Netherlands for example there is an agreement to maintain, service and repair the train after it is delivered where parts can be expedited across the single market with no friction. The other part is that the company will make just as much or more servicing the train than they did selling it in the first place
This is why the UK needed to stay in the single market and the customs union, this is now why Scotland needs to be independent and away from Westminster control.
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As you will have gathered, I voted remain. I am sad we have left. It's been a long union, and i regret its passing.
You will know that Scotland generally voted to remain, hence wee Nicola's claim we were dragged out by England against our will. Thus, she now sees the chance for independence by selling the idea that we, Scotland, could rejoin the EU, if we have another independence referendum, free ourselves from England and the rest of the UK, even though this would make Scotland an "island" with no direct land link to Europe.
Scotland has its own part to play inthe UK economy, and to me, the idea of breaking away from UK is ill-advised and frankly stupid. Why break yet another union, a far older one?
Like the small minority of people who burned the EU flag on Friday, there are some idiots in Scotland who wish to tell our English and Welsh and Irish neighbours to **** off. These are the people who will ruin everything, and i want no part of such a conspiracy.
The puerile hatred of the English is a matter of extreme distaste to me, but I am pretty sure it is fomented by certain sectors of the Scottish people who have no intelligence, contribute nothing to the economy or society, and quite frankly are happy in their hatred so long as they still get their benefits. Yes, there are such people in the rest of the UK who have "hate" instincts, but you will not find many of them in proper society. They disgrace themselves abroad, and at home, and at sporting events everywhere. let's not bow to any pressure from such people. I may have voted "remain", but I will certainly not vote to separate my country from the rest of the UK. Division is weak, imho, and our United Kingdom is better that way...united.
I agree with just about everything you said apart from the fact that I support independence.
The fact is that if Scotland gets independence and we are not in the EU we will be treated (by Westminster) worse than bad.
Look at the way the Westminster politicians show contempt for Ireland, but as Ireland is a member of the EU the EU have their back.
As far as Nicola goes I think she wasted the last 3 years trying to prevent the UK carrying out an act of self harm when she could have sat back and let them fluff things up.
We are where we are and we have the option of staying the UK and becoming a low wage economy on the edge of Europe or becoming a full member
One final point
The EU did not refuse the UK any referendum and the UK could leave any time they wanted, the UK is refusing Scotland a referendum (but that's democracy Westminster style)
Whether you agree or disagree with independence you (I hope) should agree with the right of an elected Scottish Parliament to decide when and if to have a referendum
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