Only Country that doesn't need the EU is Germany, with out it the businesses would be thrown into chaos as a host of new charges and taxes could come into play just to conduct business with the rest of EU, that kind of uncertainty is a nightmare for investors who create jobs for the country in the first place, this isn't just the stock markets I'm talking about, trade which has always been a key benefit would increase in costs. Guess who that's going to be passed on to, the consumers and the UK as a heavily import based country would be hammered, any money we'd save from leaving would be eaten up regardless, travelling through Europe would become even more of an issue and the country would be even more reliant on the financial sector for income.  Countries like Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece and such had economic issues for a while, in fact some of these countries would be in bigger trouble if the EU weren't there.

You think we're any better at political agendas then the EU? We're the UK we pioneered and wrote the damn book on agendas, we engaged in an illegal war against Iraq where our leaders later admitted the was no evidence to, we're heavily responsible for the chaos in Libya which contributed to the rise of radical groups and our own soldiers injured as a result can't even get what's owed to them because the Governments for decades don't want to pay out. The whole damn world is built on political agendas, you know why Iran isn't getting hit? Because all Middle Eastern oil has to pass through their waters to get to the rest of the world, attack them and they'll just start sinking ships with oil which would f**k all of us here up and they're a rich country as well even more the most western countries. Russia has the largest known oil reserves and is no push over, that's why little is being done as well and China is an upcoming powerhouse and who are self sufficient and would be a nightmare to fight due to their size and where they're situated, many of the goods in the world are manufactured there such as Apple products so get into a confrontation with them and businesses across the world are going to suffer. Our mob in the west are built on political agendas and always will be so don't fool yourself into thinking it's an EU thing as it'll continue even if we left only it would be the Government pushing an agenda.

Benefit cuts aren't needed it's proper regulation that is needed, someone who geniunely needs them and doesn't abuse them would get targeted by the regulators while the same people you see on the benefit street program who blatantly abuse the system would be ignored. The Tories spun the whole fiasco to make it look like cuts were the only answer when in fact it's always been their agenda and many people on them are genuine and need them, if you don't know what the living wage is you really shouldn't even be arguing the case, living wage is the calculated wage under current economic circumstances to just get by hence the name and many people fall below it. The Wages that have gone up that aren't those of Bankers are still a fair margin below of what people need to get by, the NHS has had issues yes but it's always when the Tories turn up that it falls into chaos as they've always hated it hence why they've always tried to suggest it should be privatized which surprise surprise would make some company out there rich who would no doubt be one of their backers.

What we need from the EU is not to leave but control of our borders like Australia does, in that regard I'd agree the EU is hampering us as immigration has an impact on all aspects in a country, we're currently a circus thoug, our government for years are targeting hard working immigrants while leaving those who come over to abuse the system alone, that's only going to send one message out.