re: [Update] The UK votes to leave the EU
Growth in population equates to growth in GDP but doesn't necessarily mean things are better for ordinary people - far from it. Despite what growth we've had wages have stagnated, pension provisions have been cut and services put under extraordinary pressure.
Across Europe, young people especially are seeing what 'good' the EU and the Euro has done for them. They've been effectively forced to move like some sort of mobile slave army leaving their own countries and families behind. Unless we're all one day going to be forced to exist like ants, population growth has to be taken under control. No country can be put in a position where it has to accept unlimited free movement of people but inside the EU that's the reality not a maybe. Only by getting out can we hope to have any control of migration from the EU and that will include the millions of migrants from around the globe who will one day be granted EU passports and equally be able to come here.
What good is that going to do our young people?
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