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[–] ThomTissy 0 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago 

All of the pro stay people are pretending that the EU has not been a complete economic and social disaster over the past ten years or so. The economies have been stagnant, at best, over the last 10 years and several of the countries, unwilling to reform their ways, have turned out to be a huge drag on the EU. Look at this link and scroll down to the economic growth rates per member state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_European_Union

The yearly average of the EU is roughly .9% growth with the UK clocking in at a pathetic 1.4%. Now, if the EU had been growing at, say, 4-5% annually and the UK at 3.5%+ as an average AND the EU had not been fucking over the members with unmitigated third world immigration, I could see an argument for remain. However, given the actual facts, how could it be any worse than it already is?

As far as the jobs that will be lost, the most of these exist solely because of the EU and are paper pusher type jobs that rely heavily on the heavy handed regulation coming from Brussels as well as the paper trail requirements of businesses operations enforced by Brussels.