Tattoos!Do you have many yourself or just generally love them?
Tattoos!Do you have many yourself or just generally love them?
I like what the EU represents, but it's a money pit for the UK.I'm sure you didn't say that in 1976 when the IMF came to save your country from total bankruptcy (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/themes/imf-crisis.htm)... :hmmmm:
The IMF is nothing to do with the EU.I think I know since I'm a graduate in finance and politics :whistle:
I have no problem with spending gazillions to protect any part of the UK.Some nostalgy of the British Empire, the great period when the kingdom was free to steal the primary ressource of the colonies.... Funny because we continue to waste a fortune on that to support your monarchy even if we have cut the chain a long time ago.
Sorry, that should have been 6.5billion (which is what it is due to be this year). I'll respond to the rest later on!
In the meantime:
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but the simple fact that Britain (or whatever country) has paid more than it has received seems like a non-argument to me.
How many companies only reside in your country, because you are part of the EU?
How many tourists are coming only because it's so easy to travel from the continent to your island?
How much money is streaming into and through your country only because you are part of the common market?
The tourist question doesn't really suit IMO. We'll still be the same distance away, the travel links will still be the same - it might cost a little more, but that won't stop many.Probably not, but what will stop many is that they suddenly have to show their passports again, are only allowed to buy one T-Shirt, 200 Cigarettes and a 1 liter-bottle of spirit if they want to avoid having to pay customs when returning to the EU. Always Remember: Schengen is for EU only (and for several reasons: Norway).
btw, Switzerland and Norway still have free trade with the EU despite not being member states.
So why exactly should one want a Free-Trade agreement with a country that wants to have the advantages, but is not willing to pay for them?
Don't get me wrong, no one wants the part of the EU where bureaucrats-gone-berserk are trying to tell me what size a tomato has to be to be tomato.
To quote an earlier post of you:So why exactly should one want a Free-Trade agreement with a country that wants to have the advantages, but is not willing to pay for them?
Because we import from the EU far more than we export.
The World Trade Organisation restricts this to 6% anyway so isn't a big enough issue to worry aboutNot to forget that not a too small amount of the imports will be car parts from GM-Europe for Vauxhall which you'd have to import anyway.
Roll on later this year when we'll get half of Romania flocking to the UK, expecting housing and benefits.
Roll on later this year when we'll get half of Romania flocking to the UK, expecting housing and benefits.
Man, you just gotta love "The Sun" with it's xenophobic stance.
If a German would make such a statement the same paper would have SS-Troopers on the cover.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the last time that foreigners flocked "to the UK, expecting housing" was when William The Conqueror came in and he, in fact, first burnt down most of the housings on his way.