It is your memory which is failing. This nonsense about "undemocratic" and "unelected" has been dealt with before, several times over and in detail. The plain fact is that the EU is highly, comprehensively, elaborately democratic - vastly more democratic than the UK has ever been - notwithstanding Daily Mail assertions to the contrary. Do I really have to explain all this to you yet again?
There would all out war on the high seas, as I recall there was an incident recently from the French (I think) ramming boats etc. I think people in general dismiss it all rather to lightly, I think the wrong decision will have long term effects on the outcome of the UK, and if we leave I am sure there will be some short term issues. If we leave, a possibility that the EU will become scared there will be an exodus so they many change many rules and regulations to keep Countries sweet, but alas too late for us. If we leave could we get back in if the EU bureaucrats do change a load of laws and regulations that will help us? There is quite a lot riding on it in my view. Though in my world I would like to see a premier league EU only with countries that can actually contribute to the EU, in some way.
I disagree. But keep on with your belief to the contrary. Who elects the Commissioners ? Oh, I am sorry, of course they are elected, with one vote.
Who elects the Prime Minister of the UK? Who elects the cabinet ministers? Who elects the head of state? Who elects the members of the upper house? Who elects the generals, admirals, judges, CEOs of companies?
I always make a point of voting on Polling Day, and I vote for the side that I think will make the best job of keeping the country safe; stable etc etc. From then on it's their job to run things and decide whether we should be in our out - not to leave it to Joe Public who mostly get their info from various biased and distorted sources. They, hopefully, have the Big Picture to work with.
I blame the older generation for making a complete balls of the common market which for all intensive purposes, was trade agreements. I ma be wrong because I'm not old. Now we have the EU. Old people, hang your head in shame .
Watching camaroon running to mekel is quite cringe worthy. I have no doubts, the budget to promote staying the EU will be significantly greater than that for the leave campaign. Let the lies and scaremongering commence
Is this the same Pete1950 who rails against the "revolving door" elsewhere ? Democracy is diminished the more layers it has to pass though and the EU is one layer too many IMHO.
Which is all we can do, except monitor their performance against our expectations and decide whether we will vote for them again. However the question of the EU involves our national sovereignty and our ability to decide the way in which our country is run. Do you want democratic input, albeit at a low level, in Slovakia and in turn do you want Slovakians to have democratic input into the UK ?
It is under pressure whether we remain or leave. Anyway the financial industry looks after it's own interests not yours Fin.
Or would you prefer to have no input but still have to pay almost as much and have to abide by EU legislation as happens with Norway?
The UK exports all over the world, why would exporting to the countries of the EU be any different ? The EU either wants to buy our products or they don't. Furthermore we import more from the EU than we export to them, so who has the most to lose ? In 1975 I voted to remain in the the Common Market, which we were led to believe was a trading zone, only it was in reality a great deal more than that; we were lied to.
Hot topic at the minute is immigration. The Lisbon Treaty was signed, the big issue at the time was Britain would have no control over immigration, what happens years later? Mekels experiment.
I will be voting to leave the EU. Admittedly there's very little information about the factual pros and cons of leaving / remaining at present but for that very reason I'd rather us get our sovereignty back. If the deal is that good then I'm fairly sure it'd be obvious. I don't particularly feel we benefit that greatly and everyone keeps saying foreign trade will suffer, I don't buy that at all as trade is a simple thing, they either want to sell us something or buy something we make, being in or out of the eu will make zero difference to that. I'd rather us be in complete charge of our own destiny and if that means we have a few more hoops to jump through in the coming years then so be it.
Everyone probably agrees that a trading zone is a good thing. So what benefit do we get from further political or economic integration ? I can see why the majority of the 1% want this but in what way does the 99% benefit ?
