Vote for an Imagination

When the public is given the vote to a complex issue, and the advocates preaches about the power and the dreams: "Have the pie and eat it" ideology; it is motivational, but very contradictory. 

If "country A" is a closed free trade union, and country B decides to grant free trade to everyone else.  Then by definition, "country A" will not give country B free trade, as it will defeats "country A" closed trade union.


If country B wants to apply protectionism to "protect jobs", then by definition country B will have to apply tariff on incoming goods, which country B is also a producer.  Then country B goods will definitely be restricted by the other producing country as a retaliation.


If country B applies visa restriction to "country A", "country A" will apply visa restriction to country B.  It means bigger immigration department, higher travel cost, more travel delays.  For country C gets a £10 landing visa fee for each visitor, it is £50 a family, and more for workers.  The cost is nominal and hardly enough for the immigration staffing cost.
If country B wants to remove cheap labour from the market, as part of the protectionism scheme, then the labour market is smaller and less competitive, resulting in higher labour cost.  The workers could be deceived to believe less competitive market as a good thing, but as a consumer, we take the blunt of the cost.


At the end of the day, everyone wants everyone else's money, and they are only glad to have more of it by means of immigration restriction and import restrictions.  All resulting in a bigger, more bureaucratic government.  Bigger Border Force, bigger HMRC, is that exactly what we want?  How will they be funded?


Vote for what is the best option, not vote for the contradicting what-ifs.