Hugh, you ought to come and sit in A&E in Addenbrookes, it's crowded out with people who do not speak English, most of which can't be bothered to learn it, because they exist in a community made up solely of their peers and when attending NHS services, they are accompanied by interpreters that are paid for by you & I, (Unlike when Mike & I, in an emergency, when to a French Doctor, no free treatment there or help translating) My daughter & I had a four hour wait in agony with a stone in her Gall bladder, if all those future patients weren't residing in our country and therefore not in our A & E, not only would she have been see much, much quicker, but the chances are that she would not have had to wait from March through to October, in absolute agony, before being able to be fitted in to have her Gallbladder removed. Maybe you don't have many Eastern Europeans in Wales, Hugh, but we are overrun with them, in some villages & towns in the Fens, they form the larger part of the inhabitants.
The chap was right, who said that they get more in benefits here than they get paid in wages in their own country, then they have the cheek, not only to claim child benefit for their children at home, but to send what money they do get, back home to their families. How is that helping our economy? There is no way that we would be able to get the same level of help if we needed it in France, Germany or Poland or come to that any of the EU countries.
I think too, that people get a little confused over belonging to the EU and being in Europe, no matter how anybody votes, we will always be a European country, geography dictates that! If you look back, we coped okay before they even formed the EU, so there is no reason why we wouldn't if we withdrew, at least we would be in charge of our own destiny. We will never know unless we actually get out, whether it was the right decision or not, either way, it could be totally wrong for us, but, as I said earlier, we will never know unless we try it.
Sandy