Connel's got a point. I can't pretend to care or get indignant about EU control over some particular legislation. I can't pretend to get riled up about the flow of immigration when it's never worried me on a personal level previously.
I think a lot of people in the UK are the same. It's why we keep hearing about this large, relatively neutral base of voters that are a bit frustrated by the rhetoric on either side. They just want to be able to weigh the facts of one decision against the other. Unfortunately, the impression I get is that these facts are difficult to provide and the outcome of Brexit is difficult to predict. So we get a fair amount of sensationalism. I mean Cameron insinuating that war could come of Brexit or Boris Johnson comparing the grasp of the EU over Europe to Hitler's plans for the continent don't do either side any real favours.
Then these large financial organisations come out and say Brexit would be a very bad economic decision yet Brexit highlight where these institutions have been wrong in the past (as with Britain joining the Euro) and start throwing out their own statistics. You'd like to just go along with the IMF but maybe the Brexit side has a bit of a point? It's difficult to maneuver. And the closer you dig the more susceptible you become to parroting either sides' arguments.
At the moment I'll probably vote Remain because I've yet to hear a series of Brexit arguments that truly compel me the change the status quo - which might have some negative effects living in Northern Ireland and with the industry I'm trying to work in.
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