Warning: large wall of text, the conclusion is at the very bottom if you feel lazy
Wow, thanks for all the answers, even HESKEYTIME bothered to answer me via crpg-message board although he´s muted
HESKEYTIME:
Muted, but cant resist this topic lol, it's the only interesting one atm.
IMO there is no good reason for the xenophobia, but when times get tough people look to the extremes to solve all their problems. And right-wing nationalist parties that were a joke 10 years ago are getting far too much support these days, the only good news is there are so many different parties they always steal votes from each other.
At least we'll never have BNP (British chocolate chip cookie Party) in power, they're still a joke for 99% of the country.
So if I see it right, the UK mostly wants to get out of the EU because of regulations, immigrant issues and national pride (which isn´t always a bad thing imo).
The EU is a large political and economic experiment and all in all it has worked well so far. For me it is one step of getting closer to a international thinking world and that´s a good thing (although I sound like a fucking hippie here *eyesroll*).
Of course the regulations aren´t always great, but as a union, we have to help other countries when their politics fuck up and/or go bankrupt (greece *cough cough*). For helping countries and beind sorta "international social", we receive massive economical and trade benefits inside of the EU.
...they want to leave a union but keep an economic community
No offense, but this is why a lot of people see the UK as a freeloader in the EU; you want a piece of the cake but not do anything for it or take any responsibilities, that´s not gonna work.
EU isn't working and isn't doing anyone good.
A lot of ppl say that in Austria. They forget that, without the economical benefits, we would have been bankrupt like, TEN times. Schilling was a lovely currency and warms the heart of nostalgics (mine too
), but it was weak as fuck. We couldn´t sit on our fat asses and rant about tiny problems without the EU today.
The party which currently gains more power and is against EU is the FPÖ here. In a nutshell, the FPÖ is a bunch of corrupt, lying and extremely racist/xenophob dumb monkeys, who are lucky to know what a lot of people want to hear, sadly they have some smart (and dirty) moves to get votes (f.e. bribes or inviting people for a lunch with OUR money).
They get a lot of votes because people like to rant about some issues and errors the EU made (small, useless regulations (size of pickles etc), bigger, economical regulations and mostly regulations which benefit immigrants; but the people don´t think about the massive benefits we received because nobody likes talks about the good things; ranting about bad things is way more fun (and part of the austrian spirit, it´s called "raunzen")
example: my coworker on one day "oh its rainy outside, bah, hate rain, shitty day" on the other day "bah, its sunny outside and I have to work, also its hot, shitty day". Typical austrian behavour
There´s a huge hate against immigrants and foreigners in Austria, since we also have our problems with gangs going to Austria for some kind of "stealing/begging trip" (mostly romanians/bulgarians; thank god there´s less hate against turks than 10 years before[I couldn´t think of an Austria without Kebap anymore
])).
The mistake they make is that they then think that EVERY foreigner is a burglar and criminal, although we also have a lot of good foreign students/workers. As if the government doesn´t try to sort out the workers from the criminals/beggars *eyesroll*
FPÖ´s fav slogans are stuff like "daham statt islam" (home instead of islam), "eu ist dumm" (eu is stupid) and other retardness like releasing racist/chauvinistic comics or making ridiculous raps. I mean LOOK AT THAT RETARD OH GOD, does anyone wants THIS monkey to take care of your money/health/education?? A lot of people seem to want that -.-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAEP08ps-JMFarage is a great stand-up comedian and probably represents well what most of the UK wants, still, you can say that in a less asshole-ish way. Making fun of people who work hard to keep a system up makes me want to slap him in his face :/ But I get the message that he really wants to get out of the EU badly.
ok in a nutshell: UK mostly wants to get out of the EU because of regulations, immigrant issues and national pride. They can if they want to, I just hope that they won´t regret it and can keep their economics up.
Correct me if I missed something.
btw thanks a lot for the answers!!
