User blog comment:Draugluin the werewolf/EU referendum/@comment-26347028-20160624075142/@comment-26347028-20160625162329

Okay. Ed, socialism on a whole is to the left, or just a smidge left of centre. Hence, they aren't far left - or far anything for that matter. Hence, since fascism is far right, it's nigh impossible for them to be claimed to be "similar".

I'm a realist in the sense that a large proportion of socialists are idealists. Have I said anywhere that everyone else isn't? No. So quit your pathetic whining.

The people wanting to stay were looking in the short term, not the long term. In the short term, we gain economic uncertainty, harmed foreign relations, and a bit of growth in a nationalist movement. However, in the long term we can curtail the silly amounts (66% going off of governmental figures, 89% going off of my own research) of population growth caused by immigration. We've got two choices, either enact a one or two child policy, which would only stop a small (33/11%) amount of families, not to mention the majority of those presumably only having one or two children anyway. So, the only true way of slowing down this unsustainable population growth is to curtail immigration. Otherwise, we put even more strain on the failing NHS, our housing crises worsen, and our education disappears right down the drain, as it half has already. If you consider those three things to be a good thing, then sure, stay in. But if not, then don't. But don't say that this is bad in the long term, because it really isn't. The EU is shite at making laws, it made such a mess of Human Rights for one, and it's trying to bring us ever closer. Soon enough, we won't have any "Britain" to vote for as a country. But perhaps the EU could've collapsed sooner rather than later, and we been spared that. But we'd be dragged down with Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and all the other economic drains. The EU just sucks money from the countries that have it, and gives it to the ones that don't. I'm not saying that's a bad thing in moderation. But when the country itself is being harmed by the amount taken out, and the other not being helped, then something needs to change. In this case, I doubt anything would really work.