User blog comment:NewPolishMapper/UK is out of the land of Peace and Prosperity/@comment-6812733-20160628151621/@comment-6812733-20160630151345

Some call it Finish? That's a nice name. I personally like Fixit because "Fix it". Anyways, to the point.

Since we became independent, we've done alot of trading with the "western powers", Britain, France and Germany. The reason why we got into depression in the 90's was because USSR basically made us into a satellite state, denied the Marshall aid for Finland and influenced the Finnish politics in a way that didn't let us continue our trade with the west and made Russia our only source of money. Of course, during the fall of USSR, we were able to move a little bit at a time to join with our old western friends but we could never get rid of our reliance of exports to Russia, which is still a thing. The fact that EU has forced sanctions on Russia has also hindered our economic growth, though our exports have been dropping for a long time already, but atleast we'd be able to continue our fair trade with Russia to ensure some economic growth. As Finland is already going bankrupt, I personally don't want to become another Greece where everyone else has to throw money into. That's what is going to bankrupt every country in the EU. They keep loaning money to a bankrupt state, which makes some of those who loaned the money to go bankrupt, which then get loans from the ones who didn't go bankrupt, which leads to some of those loaners to go bankrupt and the cycle keeps on going and going until there's no longer anyone left with any money or capability to even take loans.

About the Finnish Swedes, I don't know any since I live on the complete opposite side of the country, but even with Sweden, I'm pretty sure our politicians wouldn't stop traffic over the borders (since we naturally follow Sweden on anything we do because why would we make our own decisions). The only change would be that passports were needed. Considering that Finnish Swedes make up less than 10% of the population, we wouldn't have the same problem as the United Kingdom, since we are not multiple nations grouped up.

Immigrant issue: Sweden already has had enough with the massive waves of immigrants and the government suffered a huge backlash for their "almost-completely open borders" policy. We're suffering it here too, though not to the same insane extent. Sweden already has decided to change their immigration policy because of the amount of immigrants in the country that they wouldn't be able to deal with. And considering that Finland is already throwing an extra million euros to try and deal with the immigrant crisis on our own turf and we're not really changing any policies, Sweden must have been in serious trouble.

As Nigel Farage said in the European Parliament, Britain won't be the last nation to leave. Which is what I'm hoping for and thus support Fixit/Finish. We've tried to work with Britain before when they were threatening to leave the EU, so I hope that another nation will try to leave and we'd work together with them to leave and make the world see that the EU needs a good ol' round of reformation. If the Brits were scared of the pound going down when they left, they wouldn't have done what they did. But they decided to do so anyway. Either because they didn't think it'd happen or because they knew that the future benefits will outweigh the current problems. And doing what they did, they said no to the status quo which doesn't work.

Reformation or revolution. Neither of which is going to happen. The status quo will keep on going. But it's good to have a discussion about what might've been possible. Isn't that kinda our thing?