"Should I stay or should I go?" to quote the Clash. The EU referendum is upon us and I am undecided. The Englishman in me wants to go but that is a kneejerk reaction, I need to base my decision on what is best for me and my family in the future.
I don't know the benefits and drawbacks to either camp, not really. Immigration is brought up so much but how much does that affect me personally?
Big business and the luvvies are all out banging their drums, stay or else it will be worse for you but really they have no idea, no-one does. This is a referendum of the people, a chance for us to say something and what we want is facts. I have zero interest in what BP or any other business has to say, they don't decide what we do and their opinions and speculations are irrelevant, besides, how can a company have an opinion? It's not a sentient being and given BP's spectacular f**k up oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the subsequent cover ups and lies as they tried to wriggle out of it, I would take everything they say as a blatant lie.
Wow, it is as if BP is making my decision for me, they say stay and that means go.
Then there is the scaremongering and it does seem to come more from the Stay campaign, as I guess it would. This is a step into the unknown, some would say the abyss where others might say into the bright tomorrow.
I don't want to hear from Emma Thompson or any other luvvie, as much as I appreciate their work on stage and screen, their opinions are formed from behind lavish houses and huge amounts of money, not cut with the same concerns that we have. Much of the acting profession, particularly at the top, is very left wing, formerly known as "champagne socialists", the people with the money to believe in the things that the poorer and disenfranchised can't afford to believe in. It's different beliefs all the way up the social ladder until you reach a level where money becomes no object and you can afford to have a social conscience. It does sound as if I am picking on Emma Thompson and yet I went on the Climate Change March on behalf a Greenpeace, alongside her (I mean that in the loosest terms, alongside as in one the many thousands that marched alongside her), an organisation that I know is close to her heart and I share many of their ideals yet her opinion on the EU is insignificant, whatever happens will have no impact on her life where it potentially could cause major upset in lives of the average person, not those in the 1% and we don't need the rhetoric of big business and the people that it really won't affect, as much as we need the debate to happen, simple facts from both sides.
I have a lot to learn here and we don't need the same screw up as the Scottish referendum, lots of irrelevant arguments about side issues where the main facts are ignored. We need to know the meat and bones of both sides and less scaremongering, we know that leaving the EU is the unknown and that means that scaremongering is pure speculation, yes, we need to know what the dangers are but with such an uncertain looking Europe, I would say there is a danger there too, in a few years Europe won't be looking as it does now, change is coming and it won't be pretty. Maybe if the UK leaves, Europe will splinter as the other nations see that there is life beyond the Federal State of Europe, or the UK stays and we all pull together, strength in numbers. If we go then it is for good, if we stay then we have to bite the bullet and go in fully.
I have no clue which way I will vote, my head and my heart are everywhere but once the good arguments come in and we can cut through the bullshit, this will be an interesting debate that I am sure will have a profound effect, not just on Britain but the rest of the EU as well. I just hope that the politicians can put away the slings and arrows and carry on this debate with good grace but it appears David Cameron is intent on starting a war with Boris Johnson so I guess that is the end of the reasoned debate, then the gloves will come off and the debate will descend into a farce of mud slinging and name calling. It's almost as if I am psychic!
Let's finish the way we started:
"This indecision's bugging me
If you don't want me set me free
Exactly who I'm supposed to be
Don't you know which clothes even fit me
Come on and let me know
Should I cool it or should I blow?
Should I stay or should I go now?
If I go there will be trouble
And if I stay there will be double
So you gotta let me know
Should I stay or should I go?
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