What is the ONE main reason you are planning on voting remain or leave in the upcoming EU referendum?

Brexit the Movie. The film involved many people on the Leave campaign and I realised after watching that film why I need to vote in. I'm not going to say its perfect, but even an unreformed EU is better than an alternative. Whether or not the system is perfect to me isn't that important (at the moment anyway), because what it actually does for us in general is a positive.

I've seen a lot from the leave campaign that has tried to convince voters time and time again to vote against their own interests. Rules, regulations, quotas and tariffs is one area of this. There are reasons why these rules and so on are in place, to ensure that jobs are kept up inside the EU and to ensure that there are safe environments in which people can work in (in summary anyway, obviously it is more complicated than that), but I remember watching on Brexit the movie and on countless other advertisements (many directed at young people) that they wanted to get rid of most regulation, which would not only make it more likely that workers rights would be less well off, but it would probably guarantee this.

Another thing is the immigration argument. Far too long have the leave campaigns made it about economics and a supposed negative effect of immigration on Britain. They have not once mentioned any positive effect of immigration, like the big fact that immigration contributes net to the economy, instead, they let the uninformed argue about immigrants supposedly getting first access to houses and are the main fault of there not being houses left, even though the actual fact is that there is not enough houses being built.

The third thing for me is life post Brexit. It seems to me that the Leave campaign constantly tries to say that we can be like this country, or we can adopt the model of that country, and so on. Though this all sounds great, time after time the massive imperfections of them models then are revealed and it becomes clear that even by adopting any of these models, or even our own alternative, there is little chance of it making things much better.

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