Remain voter, and for many of the questions it depends.
EU turning into a single state and nations abolished: as long as the EU principle of subsidiarity still applies, and there's proper regional government (something that France and Germany have, but which the UK is still rubbish at, with the exception of Scotland), that would be fine. It's not going to happen without popular consent, so if it happens it's because the EU has turned into a proper polity and future voters think very differently from how we do now.
EU controlling member state budgets and stopping budget deficits: some form of banking and fiscal union is inevitable in a currency union like the Eurozone (which the UK isn't in and won't be for the foreseeable future). I'm unhappy about not allowing budget deficits, but in a deeper political union you'd hope that occasionally the left would get in and stomp over such silliness. And again, this will have happened because people in EU member states voted for it.
1 million immigration: the question is ill-posed, as it assumes that this happens purely as a matter of the UK being in the EU or not, so it's not about the scary brown people from Syria that the Brexiteers have been talking about. If an extra three quarter million European people want to come to the UK and pay taxes, hooray.
TTIP: much of it is good, and some of the stuff like corporations being able to sue nation states in an independent tribunal is arguably necessary in a supranational agreement. The devil is in the details - e.g. watering down some of the EU acquis because of corporate lobbying.
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Date: 2016-06-23 03:08 pm (UTC)EU turning into a single state and nations abolished: as long as the EU principle of subsidiarity still applies, and there's proper regional government (something that France and Germany have, but which the UK is still rubbish at, with the exception of Scotland), that would be fine. It's not going to happen without popular consent, so if it happens it's because the EU has turned into a proper polity and future voters think very differently from how we do now.
EU controlling member state budgets and stopping budget deficits: some form of banking and fiscal union is inevitable in a currency union like the Eurozone (which the UK isn't in and won't be for the foreseeable future). I'm unhappy about not allowing budget deficits, but in a deeper political union you'd hope that occasionally the left would get in and stomp over such silliness. And again, this will have happened because people in EU member states voted for it.
1 million immigration: the question is ill-posed, as it assumes that this happens purely as a matter of the UK being in the EU or not, so it's not about the scary brown people from Syria that the Brexiteers have been talking about. If an extra three quarter million European people want to come to the UK and pay taxes, hooray.
TTIP: much of it is good, and some of the stuff like corporations being able to sue nation states in an independent tribunal is arguably necessary in a supranational agreement. The devil is in the details - e.g. watering down some of the EU acquis because of corporate lobbying.