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reasons the UK should withdraw from the EU
It would end the waste of taxpayer’s
money paying for our membership which accounted for £8.5
billion in 1999. That doesn’t even take into account the
loss of money from farming, fishing and other industries due to
EU rules and regulations. Still having to leave the EU would cost
the UK Taxpayer £20 billion, this is a small sum with the
independence we would gain.
It would restore authority to MPs we elected
to power and bring the UK’s power back to Westminster were
it MPs would defend our national interest, instead Brussels were
officials and commissioners are required not to take interest
of their country into account. This leave Britain with the worse
deal since we are not the same at the continent of Europe and
don’t the same needs.
It would allow us to make our own policies
on farming, fishing, etc that would advantage us and stop the
waste of money in the wasteful, cruel and immoral ways of Europe.
The EU single market would place us against
other member states and not allow us to use our strengths. It
would weaken London by votes submitted from other EU countries
with no major finical sector of their own. Not only that but things
like our antiques trade will be threatened by the single market
and so the single VAT.
If we stay in Europe we will have to join
the single currency in the end, this will threaten our economy
because the European Central Bank would take over control of our
economy and treat it as one with the rest of Europe. At the present
moment in time exporters are complaining that the pound is too
strong, this is not right it is that the Euro is just weak. If
we join the single currency the cost and taxes of setting up a
business would increase in the UK too, would then want to come
and set up business.
Europe is not what the voters in 1975 though
they were voting for, that is a trading community. It is a far
cry from any other trading communities like the NAFTA (North American
Free Trade Agreement). Europe isn’t even a free trade zone.
Small non-EU countries like Switzerland trade with Europe on the
same sort of terms we do. Plus the EU regulations mean that every
business has to pay more cost even if they don’t export
to other European countries.
Not for 40 years the EU has had a power
axis with France and Germany. If the UK continues to stay in Europe
it would be stupid to think that we would be able to keep our
nation interest when they would be reduced yet more to 10% voting
rights. We can’t even keep national interest now when we
have 15% voting rights.
We would have to drop our centuries old
legal system of innocent until proven guilty, and use the Napoleonic
code system of guilty until proven innocent, you could be in virtually
unlimited detention without charge.
The banning of Imperial Units is designed
to stop our natural advantage of trading with the USA when bidding
for contracts.
If we stay in Europe we will lose control
of our boarders and armed forces, Westminster would no longer
have jurisdiction over who could enter and who couldn’t.
Our armed forces would be used to fight wars for the French and
German interest and not ours.
All the UK resources would have to be shared
with the EU; we would have to share everything including the debts
in the pension funds on the continent, French and German debts
would become ours. Our children would lose their assured pension.
Only 1.8 per cent of euro-zone companies
use the Euro to conduct business. (source: Daily Mail, Tuesday
January 4th, 2000 Quarterly Memorandum on the Future of the Euro).
A detailed report published by the industry
pressure group, Business for Sterling, estimates that the cost
of scrapping the Pound could be up to £36 billion (4.2%
of GDP). This is getting on for the cost of the entire education
budget (£40 billion) or the NHS budget (£49 billion).
Most politicians in Europe think monetary
union should be followed by tax harmonisation. But Professor Tim
Congdon has calculated that taxes in the UK would have to rise
by as much as a fifth in order to bring them into line with the
rest of the EU (Lombard Street Research, February 1999).
UK output could be reduced by £9
billion through the loss of control of monetary policy if we joined
the single currency, according to a study published by the Bank
of England. (source: Financial Times, 5 November 1999)
The British economy and British interest
rates and exchange rates, are more in step with those of the US,
than with those of the Continent. (source: HM Treasury, October
1997: UK Membership of the Single Currency: An Assessment of the
Five Economic Tests).
93% of French tourists: 'spending the Pound'
is a highlight of visiting Britain
93% of French tourists cite 'spending the
pound' as one of their favourite aspects of a visit to Britain.
(Source: Liberation poll, Dec 98)
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