Europe yes or no?
Watch this postApart from the fact that we don't speak the same language, we drive on different sides of the road, eat different food and fight over sunbeds, I think being is Europe is a good thing, what do you think?
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Yes, I believe the EU is a Bureaucracy maze - not always efficient, and a bit of a free ride for some....
Yes, the Common Market we joined has exploded in size - so does that make it even more bureaucratic and unwieldy?
I totally disagree that people with criminal convictions coming from other member states, cannot be blocked on that basis alone - Murderers have committed crimes in UK after doing same in their own country; are we opening doors too far?
I am glad we never entered the Eurozone in financial terms-Financially hard times persist here, and the poorer suffer most - but we can benefit from better exchange rates, and that might help with exports/imports and jobs?
Yes, I appreciate access to continental living and some alternative health options are available and easier to access
Ireland & Denmark joined EU at same time as UK - have they benefitted over the term of 40+ years?
H&S and other PC type 'ridiculous rules' as exercised in UK often get blamed directly on EU membership - but many claims have no basis, and it appears that it's our own Nanny State that's to blame in many situations!
Will our access trading markets shrink if we go it alone? I think they will, at least in the short -term, and we are too economically fragile to cope with this - so will any advantages we might (and should) gain to redress Agriculture & Fisheries restrictions will be lost?
China and India are leading market places - can/will a solo UK be able to compete? No; I doubt it.......Although I choose not to listen to Mr Obama's assertions-I believe he was reading something 'scripted' for him
EU Funding has backed some major building and infrastructure works and also some disability/educational projects throughout UK; I wonder though have they been managed well enough, and has EU kept to contractual agreements re paying timeously? (Past experience was no - but it may have improved)
Do people understand that NATO, European Human Rights Courts etc. are not directly connected to EU...............?
Oh dear - the more I think and discover - the more difficult it is to decide
In my eyes the EU is corrupt ,very very corrupt ,and if we are that stupid we would give our country away to unelected Europrats then we deserve all we get!
There is a saying "no pain no gain", and our soldiers died so that we were a free nation and a democratic nation.
I want to vote a party in or out,Inwant our borders closed,I want our laws made here,I want to choose who comes in and who we keep out ,and I also want to deport criminals without asking the EU.
All leaders and big business stands to gain money wise and you and I are paying and suffering for it,it's all about money and business and control over the masses.
Would America give their country away to unelected Unknown people ,would China ,Australia ,New Zealand ,South Africa ,
Korea or for that matter any other country .
And while we are at it which of the above nations would put their people at grave risk from terrorists and criminals etc by keeping their borders open because an unknown person told them to!!
Madness utter and complete madness and we will end up with a civil war on our streets very soon.
European people are rising up and even if we are stupid enough to be scared by Cameron and his cronies the Europeans will dismantle the corrupt EU .
It has started now and if you search the Internet and read foreighn papers you will see what is really happening and what our govenment and the media hides from us.
Be very afraid if we vote in as the EU will punish us for showing we want out,they will swollow us up whole and make us the biggest payers to be turned into such an insignificant island people who will never again shape their own destiny!
So don't tell me what the EU has done here in England.
Look at our infrastructures falling apart while our cash goes on installing building fantastic roads in EU country's with hardly any cars! Tenerife is a prime example ,it has new roads that aren't even used would you believe ! We pay for those .
Sickening as Inwant our money spent here not going in the pockets of unelected Europrats to spend on what ever they fancy (even themselves)
We would be better spending our money on us instead of all the other inefficient countries.
Image what we could do as a nation with the financial resources we would have as an independent nation.
Let's bring the Great back into Great Britain and be proud and in control of OUR country.
Stay in? No. We must leave this parasitic community and become Great Britain again.
We continue to prop up paper tiger economies without having a choice .
If my memory is correct after Churchill supported its conception, on more than occasion we were black balled by France?,before our inclusion in 75. Even then it was a common market we voted for not a European super state?
Since being part of EU we have lost our Fishing industry- Coal industry and now a Steel industry that we cannot even help because the GB government cannot overturn the EU on steel tariffs?