Brexit

“A vote to leave is the gamble of the century. And it will be our children’s future
on the table, if we were to roll the dice.” An interesting quote by the Ex-Prime
Minister of UK, David Cameron, who stands against Brexit. So what is Brexit? I’m
sure most of you are aware or at least have heard of this ongoing stress-induced
issue that has been causing ripples of trouble across the European Union. A
political and economic union, formed by 28 countries to foster economic
cooperation and create a single market. Although Brexit officially started on 29 th
of March, 2017. It was caused by a referendum that took place the year before, it
was voted decision that if Britain should leave the EU or not. More than 30 million
people voted and the results ended in the favor of Britain leaving. They even
named it Brexit on the basis of Britain and Exit. In my opinion, that is a rather
drastic measure. Therefore I stand against the notion of Britain leaving the EU
since it can lead towards some dire consequences.
First of all, I have actually seen Pro-Brexits explain how leaving the EU will solve
their immigration issues, but guess what? It won’t. I mean more people enter
Britain from outside the EU rather than the inside. Britain had its chance to
control the borders and they didn’t turn out very successful. Hence if the
government can’t hold down the influx of immigrants from outside the EU then
how can we expect them to restrict the ones entering from the inside?
Furthermore, Britain in reality needs the money obtained from immigrants,
migrants from the EU alone have contributed 4.96B Pounds to the economy.
These funds are more than enough to support public services along with providing
educational and health support to a reasonable part of the country.
Let’s just say Britain manages to exit the EU, they still have to pay a substantial
amount of fee to use the trade routes under EU’s control. Even Norway, a country
not a part of the EU and like whom Britain has hopes of becoming has to pay a
great amount for the trading privileges they receive regardless of how much they
don’t want to. According to a survey, Norway pays 400 million Euros annually to
retain its trading facilities. Now that’s an enormous amount if you ask me and can
easily be avoided if Britain stays in the EU.
 One of the most disastrous consequences out this act would the loss of nearly 3
million jobs in the UK. Hence, right now 3 million people are at risk and
government has no plan to combat such an atrocity. Upon questioning one of the
members in favor of Brexit about this, the reply was, “It is a small price to pay for
long term gains.”
When in reality, no long-term gain is expected. It’s actually easy for them to say
since regardless of what happens, they are still going to be sitting on their golden
thrones while the people perish.
Plus not everyone wants to leave the EU. Parts of the Britain like Scotland and
Wales actually flourish under the EU. Since almost all of their sectors including
Health, education and the local government is funded by EU. So we can basically
imagine what they will go through if Britain leaves the EU.
When discussing this issue, Pro-Brexits tend to wave around the point that they
will save money by leaving the EU when in actual none of that money will be
directed to the National Health Service. Brexit campaign leaders use this as their
golden carrot, and this money could be directed to the NHS but no one can
promise this. All the people who have made such promises aren’t the leaders at
all. It’s just a theory. Considering the fact that Britain needs to pay a fee to EU like
Norway, there isn’t any money to be saved now is there?
EU was created on an ideology to prevent war between countries by joining in an
alliance to spread political and economic peace. When Britain leaves this alliance,
its relationship with other countries deteriorates rapidly and can result in
unfortunate consequences. EU is a humanitarian based community and will still
accept Britain’s full-fledged refusal from Brexit. Hence in light of all these possible
outcomes, Britain still has time to make the right decision. Before it is too late.