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  Tim Montgomerie on ConHome has drawn up a list of what we do not like about the EU and the European Court. Such a list would form part of a renegotiation/exit strategy.
  
  Here is Tim's list
  
  1/ Britain pays a lot more into the EU than it gets out.
  2/ The EU budget keeps going up while UK budgets are being cut.
  3/ The high wages and expenses of Members of the European Parliament.
  4/ EU red tape that hurts UK business.
  5/ Open borders with the EU that mean the British Parliament cannot control immigration.
  6/ The way the Common Fisheries Policy has hurt the British fishing industry.
  7/ Higher food prices caused by the Common Agricultural Policy.
  8/ The lack of democratic control of decisions taken by the European Union.
  9/ We joined a common market but the EU has become a political project with too much power in the hands of bureaucrats.
  10/ The EU accounts haven't been audited properly for many years.
  11/ EU waste and corruption.
  12/ An EU aid budget that often doesn't reach the poor and hungry.
  13/ The economic problems created by the Eurozone.
  14/ Britain's large trade deficit with the EU.
  15/ The sense that Britain plays by the rules and implements EU laws but other EU countries do not.
  16/ EU environmental and renewable energy policies that are leading to higher energy policies.
  17/ European human rights laws.
  
  Over to you, what do you not like about this awful organisation?

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