This thread is an absolute mess, please someone shut it down before my head explodes. There is nothing 'great' about Britian when the majority of people hold these narrow-minded, little Englander views. "Take our country back" and all that bollocks, it's embarrassing. That I've seen The S*n cited as a credible news source is thoroughly depressing. Filthy rag, and if you think Murdoch has got the best interests of the ordinary British person at heart then you're a mug.
I'm voting remain for several reasons: I live in Wales which receives a huge amount of funding from the EU - are Westminster going to give that to us if we leave? Absolutely not. London does not care about Wales or the North East or any poor area of the UK.
I also work for a University that recieves massive research grants from the EU - grants to conduct research on brain imaging, on strokes, on cancer stem cell research, on catalysis and sustainability, all things to improve the world and improve our lives. Where is the uni going to get that funding from if we leave?
And finally I despise Johnson and I despise Gove. I find it maddening that people who want to vote Leave cite "the NHS" as a key point, as if Johnson and Gove wouldn't dismantle it the first chance they got. And there is evidence out there on their views on this. Any of you know any teachers? Their thoughts on Gove's stint in charge of the Dep.of Education? He's a cretin. And lets not start on Farage. Again, if you think he has the interests of the average working-class Brit at heart then you're deluded. Remember when he stated he was against a rise in the national minimum wage? He's a pig and a racist pig at that (UKIP is just BNP light and lets not pretend otherwise).
I do understand that people have well-thought out, well-researched reasons for voting Leave and I totally respect that, if not necessarily agreeing. It's the small-minded, short-sighted "get the immigrunts OUT", lot that make me despair. Just spewing drivel that they've been spoonfed by the likes of Farage and various Facebook pages.
Unreal.