"So, what has the EU ever done for us?"

What nonsense propaganda. Everything good on here already existed, and everything else is bad.

  • structural funds to areas hit by industrial decline
    • could've done that ourselves, better and cheaper, if that weren't against EU rules
    • thank you for stealing our money and giving it to corrupt Bulgarians
  • clean beaches and rivers
    • they were already clean
  • cleaner air
    • it already was clean
  • lead free petrol
    • already had it
  • restrictions on landfill dumping
    • so we have to bribe people to have the garbage dumps we need
    • also, we already knew not to put them in residential areas
  • a recycling culture
  • cheaper mobile charges
    • so you didn't raise energy prices to the point where people can't pay the bills anymore? That's news to me.
  • cheaper air travel
    • so are you guys environmentalists or not? make up your mind. Besides, it's not true. Besides besides, commoners are happy if they can afford even one vacation a year. Anything about flights is about the jet set only.
  • improved consumer protection and food labeling
    • read: rules so stringent everyone resorts to Chinese imports on the sly
    • also read: just always write all the allergies on the package so you don't get sued, no matter that that completely defeats the purpose
  • a ban on growth hormones and other harmful food additives
    • no, anything actually harmful was already banned
    • double no, the EU has forced the lifting of bans on things that were actually harmful
    • triple no, the EU just bans what the big corporations' lobbyists tell them to ban
  • better product safety
    • you banned all the cleaning products that work, proving nobody who makes decisions at the EU has ever needed to clean anything themselves
    • you banned working vacuum cleaners, you assholes
    • we resort to Chinese imports anyway, so fuck you. I don't know if they're safe. Probably not. But they work.
  • Europe-wide patent and copyright protection
    • Europe-wide Mickey Mouse enforcement. Great if you're Disney (who aren't even European), terrible if you're anyone else.
  • no paperwork or customs for export throughout the single market
    • brought about by common standards as achievable as they are enforceable, so it's just corruption now. Thanks.
  • price transparency and removal of commission on currency exchanges throughout the eurozone
    • and all it took was the complete and utter destruction of Southern Europe, as well as making savings interest a thing of the past throughout the EU. Thanks guys.
  • freedom to travel, live, and work across Europe
    • I love the new roaming Gypsy thieving gangs, they make life so much more interesting. But not as much as I love the destruction of worker's rights in Western Europe by poor Bulgarians undercutting everyone.
    • Thanks to EU rules it's now legally impossible for a Dutchman to compete with a Bulgarian, even in the Netherlands. Because you have to pay the Dutchman the Dutch minimum wage, but you only have to pay the Bulgarian the Bulgarian minimum wage, even if he's working in the Netherlands.
  • funded opportunities for young people to undertake study or work placements abroad
    • Intentionally loosening people from the society they grew up in at a young age destroys that society.
    • Not that it matters, because this is only for the upper class. It's meant to breed a race of rootless cosmopolitans who will be "Europeans" by default, who will have nothing to belong to but the EU and who will come to rule us in 50 years' time if the EU has its say. That's the only purpose of "Orgasmus". It is to at least subjugate, if not outright destroy, our pre-existing societies. You have to be a real EU fanboy indeed to consider this a good thing.
  • access to European health services
    • What European health services? I have to pay out the nose for insurance. I have to pay extra for it to work abroad.
  • labour protection and enhanced social welfare
    • You intentionally destroyed the labour protection in the Netherlands by allowing competition from Eastern Europe.
    • By "enhanced social welfare", do you mean my ever-increasing tax euros going towards Polish scammers? I think you do.
  • smoke-free workplaces
    1. Fuck you. Some people like to smoke. It should be up to the owner, like it used to be.
    2. "Enforcement"? What's that? It sounds like something for the plebs. Yes, let's go all in to prevent a freelancer from smoking in his own home since he's technically on the job. No, let's not do anything about the big multinationals.
  • equal pay legislation
    • Again, already had it, assholes.
  • holiday entitlement
    • Not only did we already have it, you made it worse.
  • The right not to work more than a 48-hour week without overtime
    • Go ahead and ask the Bulgarians.
    • Besides, we already had it, and it was 40 hours (though to be fair it didn't work back then either).
  • strongest wildlife protection in the world
    • let's destroy European agriculture so that we may become fully dependent on imports
  • improved animal welfare in food production
    • see above.
  • EU-funded research and industrial collaboration
    • an EU-funded money black hole that taxes are thrown in and nothing comes out (except perhaps "feminist glaciology").
  • EU representation in international forums
    • Cessation of national representation in international forums (that means "fuck you if you're not Germany or France")
  • bloc EEA negotiation at the WTO
    • "Fuck you if you're not Germany or France"
  • EU diplomatic efforts to uphold the nuclear non-proliferation treaty
    • So what?
  • European arrest warrant.
    • Yes, now you too can be taken off your bed at 5 o'clock by police, from your own country even, to extradite you to Zlotystan on the world's most dubious charges. Perhaps you'll disappear. How exciting!
  • cross-border policing to combat human trafficking, arms and drug smuggling, and counter terrorism intelligence
    • a free ferry from Tripoli to Lampedusa, on which every African who wants to can travel to the promised land, where he will be given a luxurious life entirely for free funded by tax money from the people who do work, and where he will also be given complete immunity from any and all laws, no matter how badly they might act. How great for them.
  • European civil and military co-operation in post-conflict zones in Europe and Africa
    • Let's make Africa our very own Middle East. What could go wrong?
  • support for democracy and human rights across Europe and beyond
    • replacing democracy with nominal technocracy (but really kakistocracy) in Europe, and keeping pet dictators beyond
  • investment across Europe contributing to better living standards and educational, social, and cultural capital
    • bleeding the people dry to the point where even eating meat is becoming a dear luxury again
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