Many Leavers seem puzzled why Remainers keep fighting. "You lost, get over it" reduces Brexit to a football match. Perhaps greater understanding might bring greater empathy...
THIS is what we're fighting for:
- Longest unbroken period of peace between European nations in history
THIS is what we're fighting for:
- Longest unbroken period of peace between European nations in history
- Free trade deals with over 70 countries
- Just in time manufacturing that supports millions of jobs, thanks to no customs checks or complex procedures
- Scientific and academic collaboration
- Support for the Good Friday Agreement & active promotion of the Irish peace process
- Just in time manufacturing that supports millions of jobs, thanks to no customs checks or complex procedures
- Scientific and academic collaboration
- Support for the Good Friday Agreement & active promotion of the Irish peace process
- Shared space exploration
- Participation in the Galileo GPS satellite cluster
- Driving licenses valid all over the EU
- Car insurance valid all over the EU
- Pet passports that make travel with pets easy
- Simplified fixed compensation scheme for flight delays & cancellations
- Participation in the Galileo GPS satellite cluster
- Driving licenses valid all over the EU
- Car insurance valid all over the EU
- Pet passports that make travel with pets easy
- Simplified fixed compensation scheme for flight delays & cancellations
- European Health Insurance Card (EHIC)
- Mobile roaming (calls, texts and data) at home prices
- Portable streaming services (can watch Netflix etc. all over the EU)
- Erasmus student exchange programme
- Simplified VAT reverse charge mechanism for those selling across the EU
- Mobile roaming (calls, texts and data) at home prices
- Portable streaming services (can watch Netflix etc. all over the EU)
- Erasmus student exchange programme
- Simplified VAT reverse charge mechanism for those selling across the EU
- Safer food
- Clean beaches
- Enhanced consumer protection, including for cross-border shopping
- Horizon 2020 (funding and assistance for over 10,000 collaborative research projects in the UK as part of the world's largest multinational research programme.)
- Clean beaches
- Enhanced consumer protection, including for cross-border shopping
- Horizon 2020 (funding and assistance for over 10,000 collaborative research projects in the UK as part of the world's largest multinational research programme.)
- Training courses for the unemployed funded by the European Social Fund
- Disaster relief funding e.g. the 60 million euro we received for flood relief in 2017
- Free movement for musicians and their instruments, bands and their equipment, artists and their materials etc.
- Disaster relief funding e.g. the 60 million euro we received for flood relief in 2017
- Free movement for musicians and their instruments, bands and their equipment, artists and their materials etc.
- Enhanced environmental protections
- Court of last resort (ECJ)
- REACH regulations & EU Chemicals Agency, improving human, animal & environmental safety around chemicals
- Safer medicines thanks to pan-EU testing
- Security cooperation and sharing of crime/terrorist databases
- Court of last resort (ECJ)
- REACH regulations & EU Chemicals Agency, improving human, animal & environmental safety around chemicals
- Safer medicines thanks to pan-EU testing
- Security cooperation and sharing of crime/terrorist databases
- European arrest warrant
- EURATOM for medical isotopes
- Support for rural areas
- Better food labelling
- EU funding for the British film industry, theatre and music
- European Capital of Culture programme, which has boosted cities such as Glasgow and Liverpool
- EURATOM for medical isotopes
- Support for rural areas
- Better food labelling
- EU funding for the British film industry, theatre and music
- European Capital of Culture programme, which has boosted cities such as Glasgow and Liverpool
- Service providers (e.g. freelance translators) can offer their services to clients all over the EU
- No UK VAT or duty on imports from the EU (great for online shopping
- EU citizenship (it's a real thing with real benefits - look it up!)
- No UK VAT or duty on imports from the EU (great for online shopping
- EU citizenship (it's a real thing with real benefits - look it up!)
- Cross-border collaboration on taxes, to hold huge firms like Amazon and Facebook to account more than we otherwise could
- Venture capital funding and startup loans
- Legal protection for minority languages such as Welsh
- Mutual recognition of academic qualifications
- Venture capital funding and startup loans
- Legal protection for minority languages such as Welsh
- Mutual recognition of academic qualifications
- Legal protection for foods of geographic origin, e.g. Melton Mowbray pork pies
- No credit and debit card surcharges
- EU structural funding (eg. £2 billion to Liverpool) with matched private funding requirement
- Supporting and encouraging democracy in post-communist countries
- No credit and debit card surcharges
- EU structural funding (eg. £2 billion to Liverpool) with matched private funding requirement
- Supporting and encouraging democracy in post-communist countries
- A bigger presence on the world stage as a key part of the largest trade block in the world
- Use of EU queues at ports and airports
- Products made or grown in the UK can be sold in 31 countries without type approval, customs duties, phytosanitary certificates etc.
- Use of EU queues at ports and airports
- Products made or grown in the UK can be sold in 31 countries without type approval, customs duties, phytosanitary certificates etc.
- Protection from GM food and chlorinated chicken
- Objective 1 funding for deprived areas and regions
- Financial services passport, enabling firms in the City to service the whole EU market
- Strong intellectual property protections
- Objective 1 funding for deprived areas and regions
- Financial services passport, enabling firms in the City to service the whole EU market
- Strong intellectual property protections
- University education in other EU countries at "home student" rates (many still have free universities.)
- Mutual recognition of professional qualifications
- Consular protection from any EU embassy outside the EU
- Baseline of worker protections (which we can also improve on)
- Mutual recognition of professional qualifications
- Consular protection from any EU embassy outside the EU
- Baseline of worker protections (which we can also improve on)
- Enhanced medical research prospects
- A friend to cosy up to against the might of the USA and China
The UK Government spends less than 1% of its budget on EU membership.
We get all the above and more for 34p per person per day. Thirty four *pence*. What a bargain!
- A friend to cosy up to against the might of the USA and China
The UK Government spends less than 1% of its budget on EU membership.
We get all the above and more for 34p per person per day. Thirty four *pence*. What a bargain!
So if you still want to leave, fine. That's your prerogative.
But don't you dare say "get over it" again... That's so insulting, like telling somebody who's about to lose a limb to shut up and bear it.
Wake up to the reality of what we're losing, before it really *is* too late!
But don't you dare say "get over it" again... That's so insulting, like telling somebody who's about to lose a limb to shut up and bear it.
Wake up to the reality of what we're losing, before it really *is* too late!
For even more context, we spend far less on EU membership than on foreign aid. (£9 billion on EU membership vs over £13 billion on foreign aid.) This is not a plea to reduce foreign aid! This is a plea for proportionality: in a national context, EU membership is a snip. 
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