BREXIT could cost the UK €300 billion

[MikeRox]

Ka-pi96 said:

MikeRox said:

The referendum is the logical way of putting the matter to bed one way or another. I'd rather have 2 years of "instability" from that with a firm answer at the end. Than yet more long decades of rowing bitching and moaning and political parties being torn apart and accused of being racist and allowed to stir up immigration and racial tensions.

How would a referendum be the best way? If financial experts aren't entirely sure of all the pros and cons of staying in or leaving the EU then why would it be best to turn the decision over to the general population (many of whom just aren't intelligent enough to make their own decisions and will be affected by media campaigns one way or the other)?

Because it'll put the matter to bed one way or the other. We might make the wrong choice, but we'll have still voiced it and have to live with our consequences. As it is, the anti EU crowd are getting far too much say, it's influencing mainstream politics and is not going to go away without it. The total refusal of any say since the 70s despite the fac the EU is nothing like the EEC that the UK population voted on originally is also hugely undemocratic (again, freedom of movement is a big sticking point for many in the UK, no one signed up to that, and nobody, other than Labour got a say in whether it happened). A new vote would give this legitimacy because it's a vote on being in the EU in it's present form.