A Big Issue reader takes a stand against the EU. What do you think?
No, thank EU
I am intrigued that some people seem to think that the EU is some form of utopian nirvana and we must rejoin at the earliest juncture. Problems we have had since are much less to do with Brexit than our own inadequate governments and matters outside our control. The UK needed to be punished for having the temerity to leave and to ensure no other countries tried the same thing.
Every couple of years the EU audits itself and the results are always the same; corruption, nepotism, illegality and waste on an eye-watering scale. Hopefully one day the whole edifice will collapse and citizens will no longer have to fund the tax-free salaries of the civil servants and politicians that keep the economies of Brussels, Strasbourg and Luxembourg going.
Christopher Richardson, Bristol
Read more:
- We’re counting the cost of failing to prepare for a post-Brexit world
- ‘It feels like, as a country, we’ve shot ourselves in the foot with Brexit’
- Ten years after the Brexit vote, the divisions in UK society are deeper than ever
Animal planet
The plight of all animals is the plight of bees [Issue 1723]. If you’re worried about bees, start by taking honey and other animal products off your plate. Animal exploitation has no place in a sustainable world.
