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Correct me if i'm wrong but from what I've read the UK contributes more money to the EU then they get back from it by a longshot. ...
About a third of what was claimed by the Leave campagne. If they would get rid of the utter useless royals, they could get that in easily. I only have some numbers from a few years back which were 4.5 billion pounds per year for the queen's castles, hat collection and stuff
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But serriously you don't want to argue in terms of economics, there is no sensible way that leaving the EU would benefit Britain short, medium or long term.
Sure as Oberyn said, they can do alright, but just take all the trade agreements britain "has
had" till friday. They now need all to be renegotiated and britain has now far less backing in such negotiations. When you read the papers over the past days you see that a substantial amount of companies has already decided to leave the sinking ship.
Again sure from a democratic point of view, this was a win for democracy, still stupid.
At least they get rid of the banks now
and perhaps in a few years England can get back in and see their mates from scottland and north-ireland(?) again.
Still it is not yet clear how much further the right wing nutjobs push the issues of immigration. If they decide against Schengen, then there is also market access and i would also guess, if britain leaves Schengen, it is not only them then buidling a wall around their country, but the whole of europe may just give them the middle finger.
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I'm sure the large contributions to the EU the UK pays all goes into maintaining better EU market conditions, but for who? Refugees? Immigrants? France? Germany? China? Who decides? Non-elected officials.
The costs of refugees and immigrants is mainly done by the countries they are in and not much comes from the EU in these terms.
France and Germany both do as Britain has done, redistributing their money. Germany i heared repeatidly would be the highest contributer, not sure if that is still the case or now again after Britain left, someone needs to pay the bill now after the slackers left.
China??? what what?
Who decides? Not sure but i think it depends on the decession either EU parlament constiing of members of every nations parties representetives or was it the european council which i believe consists of the elected heads of states.
A while ago i read up on all the instituions of the EU and how they work, it is truely boring read and i forgot half of it already again, still any of the questions you said can also be answered by a small look in the wiki. As we now know, AFTER the Brexit sudenly the british people cared to look it up on google ...
My take on the contribution of my country is as follows:
We have not had another war for over 80 years, i gladly pay so that a few countries which are a bit behind of sorts get the chance to improve and over time may by that contribute themselves more and over all we gain a more stable and strong europe.
Rassism, Fashism and Nationalism are the major driving forces for devision and seperations, yet not only science but anyone with common sense should know that only with unity we maybe able to solve the problems which are ahead of us. The EU maybe able to gather ressources and organize labour if needed in certain dire situations ... get a dyke build against floods because of increasing sealevels, as soon as fusion energy is here, get those reactors built and put under states supervision ... solve problems which one nation alone could not. You get the theme?
EU does quite well, the only problem is with redistribution systems. Not saying capitalism is all bad, Bill Maher put it quite nicely a few shows back of his:
"Socialism is what keeps capitalism on a leash so it does not consumes us all." They are not necessarily complete opposites and sane people know that, otherwise people would be on the street in the millions everyday and there would be no nation existing in europe anymore. There can be made an argument for a type of anarchism or some newer forms ressource based economy or other yet theoretical systems. People in europe mostly just don't care enough to get informed and get the ball rolling, consumers have bread & games ...
