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Hi Roger, Yes you`re correct, the agreed cost of being a member of the EU is indeed around £45 million a day and this figure will of course continue to rise steeply. Well. someones got to pay for the large increases in pay and expenses that the bureacrats have just voted for themselves. Funny that, I thought we were all having to tighten our belts!
Hi Sid, well I can see we will probably never agree on the EU question but I would just like to make the following points in reply to your post.
Of course there will be slightly different rules for trading with the EU if we withdrew from it. But as I`ve mentioned previously, trade is a two-way thing and they need us more than we need them. They are not going to cut off their noses to spite their face are they?
If you have any fears about us "going it alone" then I don`t see Norway or Switzerland having any problems. In fact their economies are probably doing better than any other EU country. Once outside of the EU we would also be able to expand our trade with the rest of the world.
The EU will obviously try to infer that leaving them will be positively bad for us whereupon in actual fact it will be bad for them, as a massive part of their budget contribution will suddenly disappear.
Sid, it`s obvious from your posts that you believe in the EU and that`s fair enough, we all have our own opinions, but I fail to understand why anyone should be happy with the loss of our independence and sovereignty to what amounts to a foreign power. Are you really happy to be ruled by a foreign body that is unelected, unaccountable and virtually impossible to remove?
Futhermore, these same people have, of course, voted themselves the protection of immunity from any sort of prosecution should that be attempted at any future stage. I wonder why they think they might require that?
Are you happy that we lose complete control of our borders, our ability to make our own laws, the loss of our justice system and own financial regulations and the ability to provide the power and energy that we want for our own country? I could go on.
We have already lost the ability to control our own fishing and farming industries, business regulation, postal services, environment and waste disposal. (The latter of which increases our Council Tax) Again, I could go on.
Finally, I don`t think you can really compare the EU project with that of the USA, for starters they`re all one people with mainly a collective history.
Still, I suppose it wouldn`t do if we all had the same opinion!