to my dutch friends
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- kelpie0
nothing is perfect for everyone. easy migration has not been a possibility for a long long time and the situation now is in my opinion a good thing (with teething troubles, granted). you take the bits you don't like when you take advantage of the bits you do. A lot of the things people rail against are at least in the direction of social justice as well, things like minimum wage for example would *probably* never have been introduced here were it not for the socially realigning element of european policy.
I baulk when I hear tax powers raised as a negative against the EU, it reminds me of SE english elite attitudes and The Sun's reasons for being anti-europe.
It annoys me that the UK is not more fundamentally involved because we allow the French and Germans to set the agenda on their terms, but I do see every one of the reasons to hold back, I just think its very easy for us to be painted as wreckers when we express them with one foot outside the door, rather than from the main armchair in the living room.
just mho