odysseus2000 wrote:PeterGray wrote:The EU system deprives the UK electorate of direct action to remove laws they don't like.
Yes, of course. That's the consequence of working together. You've just proved my point again, you really seem unable to understand.
Not much point in going on here really, I think!
You seem to have finally conceded my point.
The next question is did the UK being in the EU lead to better prosperity & increased living standards for the UK population?
The answer is no.
We now have long waiting lists for health care & such poverty that people have to rely on food banks. In the most prosperous times ever folk in the uk have to rely on food banks. Amazingly bad!
Whether this poverty is due to the EU or other factors can be discussed but post Brexit some one can complain to their MP & threaten to vote them out if things do not improve. Nothing may change but the elected & the electors are directly coupled together & the MPcan not argue that he/she can do nothing because the EU makes policy.
Regards,
The massive increase in foodbanks has occurred under the Tory and coalition governments since 2010
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/the-sickening-truth-about-food-banks-that-the-tories-don-t-want-you-to-know-10195840.html
And, lest we are in any doubt that this is directly linked to the coalition government’s policies targeting those on benefits, we just need to look at the increase in food banks themselves which have risen from 56 in 2010 to 445 in 2015 – an increase of almost 700 per cent . And this is only the tip of the iceberg. The total number of organisations providing emergency food assistance is estimated to be over 1,500 according to a 2014 parliamentary inquiry into hunger in the UK.