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I do wonder as to what these 'very good reasons' might be.
As to the question itself.
I'll begin with the answer to my own question, which I will state in a mo...
Maybe it is all down to the fact that we are net-contributors.
For the question that leaps out at me is:Why is this topic always discussed in terms of 'Them and Us'?
The EU is a huge thing, when looked at from all sorts of angles. Yes, it could be said that we were lied to way back when. I think it is rather more accurately expressed as; We were miss-sold to, as we quite often are on a whole range of subjects.
Is the NHS safe in the hands of the coalition? Has the privatisation of our Utilities yielded the promised results?
Should there be a standing UK Truth & Reconciliation Commission?
There is a deal of dogmatism at the heart of the EU. There does seem to have been much optimism and with that some profound envisioning of a greater tomorrow, but little or no flexibility allowed for in journeying from then through the now and on to the future. The world has changed and has left many a Governmental Institution in a spin.
Barrie:Where is the logic in saying that there was never such a thing as a simple 'trading partnership', and then to clamour to get back to it being a simple trading partnership?
It is part of the British Disease, this habit of Dominance rather than partnership, extortion rather than cooperation, our way or no-way.
To a great degree, our membership of the EU - and what the EU actually is and what it could become, and the utter confusion that reins overall, stems from the fact that we have never actually played our part as full members of the EU. [This may be why we have a tunnel and not a bridge?]
It is the overweening principle that we are in it only for what we can get out of it; our 'proud' stance as parasite supreme. As you have read above:They are dependant upon us more than we are on them.
As far as this £45m/day goes, well it would (certainly) buy an awful lot of Yachts, raise house prices through the roof, and ensure that next-to-no company would pay corporation tax, and the EU would still serve as the excuse for not doing....
fill the rest in yourself.