Benefits of staying in the EU

[mrdonuts]

what are the benefits to the ordinary UK citizen born in the UK, of the UK staying in the EU?

(not expecting a long list btw)

[TykeMerc]

what are the benefits to the ordinary UK citizen born in the UK, of the UK staying in the EU?

(not expecting a long list btw)

I guess I'll start:-

Ability to travel freely to countries in Europe without a visa.
Ability to live and work freely in countries in Europe without additional paperwork.

[Avalonia]

Any possible benefits are massively outweighed by the drawbacks

[Roger Mellie]

what are the benefits to the ordinary UK citizen born in the UK, of the UK staying in the EU?

(not expecting a long list btw)

Sorry, but you should be thinking about the million or so Brits in Poland, Bulgaria and Romania claiming Romanian, Bulgarian and Polish tax credits and enjoying those countries minimum wage laws and zero hour contracts. What would happen to them if we left the EU? I don't believe for one minute that most Brits have moved to Europe, particularly Spain, to either live on their retirement/savings and/or open up businesses in tourist areas mostly frequented by British holiday makers. I just don't believe that. Nor do I believe Brits have been doing such a thing long before Free Movement of Peoples within the EU and long before the introduction of the Euro.

We need to do [xyz Progressive standards] in the 21st Century. And please, think of the NHS which would collapse without [xyz Progressive standards] in the 21st Century.

We're just too thick and stupid to operate without the EU. Oh...and I apologise for the British Empire for running 2/3s of the globe for a hundred years or so and with public sector of about 4000 individuals.

Think of the NHS, please!!!

[Roger Mellie]

Any possible benefits are massively outweighed by the drawbacks

EDIT: I misread your post, apologies.

[Roger Mellie]

I guess I'll start:-

Ability to travel freely to countries in Europe without a visa.
Ability to live and work freely in countries in Europe without additional paperwork.

Yep, this guy enjoyed the same benefits of the EU too:

Mother of girl raped and murdered by Polish migrant in Calais holds funeral | Daily Mail Online

[darmstadt]

Any possible benefits are massively outweighed by the drawbacks

Now that's the type of answer I would expect from an inbred kipper

[darmstadt]

Sorry, but you should be thinking about the million or so Brits in Poland, Bulgaria and Romania claiming Romanian, Bulgarian and Polish tax credits and enjoying those countries minimum wage laws and zero hour contracts. What would happen to them if we left the EU? I don't believe for one minute that most Brits have moved to Europe, particularly Spain, to either live on their retirement/savings and/or open up businesses in tourist areas mostly frequented by British holiday makers. I just don't believe that. Nor do I believe Brits have been doing such a thing long before Free Movement of Peoples within the EU and long before the introduction of the Euro.

We need to do [xyz Progressive standards] in the 21st Century. And please, think of the NHS which would collapse without [xyz Progressive standards] in the 21st Century.

We're just too thick and stupid to operate without the EU. Oh...and I apologise for the British Empire for running 2/3s of the globe for a hundred years or so and with public sector of about 4000 individuals.

Think of the NHS, please!!!

Unemployed Britons in Europe are drawing much more in benefits and allowances in the wealthier EU countries than their nationals are claiming in the UK, despite the British government’s arguments about migrants flocking in to the country to secure better welfare payments.

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The research shows more than four times as many Britons obtain unemployment benefits in Germany as Germans do in the UK, while the number of jobless Britons receiving benefits in Ireland exceeds their Irish counterparts in the UK by a rate of five to one.

There are not only far more Britons drawing benefits in these countries than vice versa, but frequently the benefits elsewhere in Europe are much more generous than in the UK. A Briton in France receives more than three times as much as a jobless French person in the UK.

Revealed: thousands of Britons on benefits across EU | UK news | The Guardian

[Roger Mellie]

Now that's the type of answer I would expect from an inbred kipper

Ahh...a Progressive, like Karl Marx himself.

[Roger Mellie]

Revealed: thousands of Britons on benefits across EU | UK news | The Guardian

Hang on, now I'm not going to look at Karl Marx's post, but I predict it contains truthful info from............the Guardian?