stevegull wrote:Election season rumbles in to focus. What are the issues that will effect your voting intentions? I'm genuinely curious.
The economy seems to be the main one in the current climate
The EU and immigration goes hand in hand but is it enough to change where you put the cross on the ballot paper?
Does a lurch to the right wing or left wing sound appealing to you and you're voting on that ideological standpoint?
For the record, I remain a floating voter.
The economy is a side issue. The real problem is the EU.
Given that our nation is made up of small islands with limited space,
that for the past decade or more the records show that tens of thousands more people enter the country to live here than move away to live,
that these records show only the legal migrations we are able to measure, and not illegal immigrants,
that we have no control over our own borders with regard to EU immigrants,
that for years we have not been self-sufficient in food production,
that we have given billions of pounds more to Europe than we will ever get out of it,
that much of this money disappears into the pockets of corrupt politicians, businesses and bureaucrats,
that many of the biggest companies running businesses here avoid paying UK taxes on their profits by basing themselves in other parts of Europe, that the vast majority of immigrants come from Europe to take low paid jobs which keep wage levels down,
that many of these jobs and the profits they make for their employers are taken out of the country by those foreign-based companies,
that other countries around the world manage to trade with each other without entering into political union,
that EU membership has decimated our fishing industry and helped destroy many of our other industries,
that European laws are undemocratically proposed and passed by European Commissioners and bureaucrats and not by the European Parliament,
that for years auditors have refused to validate the EU's accounts,
that there is no shortage of houses here but a surplus of people,
that these extra people put undue pressures on our education system, NHS, housing, infrastructure and many local communities,
that the population of this nation (and indeed the world) cannot sustainably go on increasing as it has,
then in view of all this (and more) I believe this nation (the United Kingdom) should take its future back into its own hands and control its own borders, its own laws, and its own destiny, by leaving the European Union.
To this end I shall be voting for UKIP in this election, and so should everybody else.
