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  1. Britain is still one of the largest recipients of EU subsidies and pays "over the top" for services, wages and expenses. Perhaps if you deducted the cost in wages and expenses of the British Euro MP's you would see more of a balance.
  
  2. So the EU is increasing budgets to care for the needs and welfare of all while Britain is making politically motivated (in most but not all cases) cuts, with little regard for the effects on the most vulnerable.
  
  3. Not even the British representatives.
  
  4. How much of the Red Tape is caused by the excessive zeal the British government shows in taking one-policy and adding ten laws and twenty penalties to it?
  
  5. Britain is an island and should therefore have a head start on policing its borders. Part of that involves us requiring a full passport to get across our own borders and other shortfalls in 'security' are down to British policy (and possibly the poor negotiating skills of the representatives we send out there who have more interest in getting us out than making it work).
  
  6. Talk to Iceland about British fishing rights, you could get some interesting answers.
  
  7. Everyone is suffering higher food prices and there are many reasons, including droughts, domestic unrest, tariffs and even 'Fair Trade'.
  
  8. If our representatives are failing to argue our case and reach democratic decisions maybe we need better representatives.
  
  9. Again, we send out Euro politicians to discuss policies and priorities, are they failing to do their jobs?
  
  10. So what are our representatives doing?
  
  11. Waste and corruption is endemic in far too many political and business organisations, perhaps a case of looking after the plank in our eye before looking for the splinters elsewhere.
  
  12. All aid packages from all sources need far better checking than they ever get. A closer look at the governments receiving the aid should be looked at worldwide.
  
  13. Do our representatives do nothing?
  
  14. As has already been said, a useful negotiating tool so are our representatives making use of it?
  
  15. Much the same as the answer for number 4. Are those countries that see the directives as guidelines to blame for the British governments obsession with controlling every detail?
  
  16. I do not think that a government seeking to sell our forests and make it possible to build on our green lands has a lot to protest on environmental issues.
  
  17. It is nice to know that there is at least one body looking out for Human Rights.

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