Yes, let's bury it.......After I've offloaded this....
My brother and Dad have both bought properties in the Romanian mountains. The local Romanians they have met have nothing but contempt for the EU.
Since they joined everything has gone up in price affecting everyone.
Their way of life is being affected by EU bullshit and red tape so they say.
The country may well be getting a hand out but it doesn't filter down to the bottom of the food chain.
I agree with Fazersharp, us leaving will unsettle the EU as other nations will follow suit.
This is why(and it's so foccing obvious) that they are making it as difficult as possible for us to leave.
I've seen first hand how our standard of living has been eroded by cheap labour.
I've seen groups of Eastern Europeans sleeping in a camper vans outside a building site.
No bills to pay, family to support(over here at least) rent or mortgage to fork out.
No wonder they can undercut our daily rates.
One was telling me how, for €50 000 he'd built his own home in Romania.
I say home but it was more like a mansion.
When he told me what the square meterage was it was roughly 4 of my brothers house......And gardens !
This was just the building.
Don't pay tax, set up limited companies, never in one place for too long or even in the country to get nailed by the taxman.
Monies all going back home.
This is the reality, this is why I have my opinion.
Obviously, other people have different experiences leading to different opinions.
I'm just fed up with the bullshit, I'm being forced to get rid of a perfectly good car and buy an ULEZ compliant car when the technology is there to produce any type of fuel from the atmosphere which emits no pollutants.
It's all about money and control and if the Earth stopped spinning, I'd opt to get off.