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  And a little missive I received which might disabuse those open-minded enough to read of one or two of the illusions currently being circulated at this critical time, "catchfart" Elphicke included.
  
  In the past week we’ve had a couple who were just on their way to Austria on holiday who said no deal will be fine as we have rabbits in the fields and can grow potatoes in our gardens.
  
  An ‘expat’ in a pub in Benidorm said the EU needs us more than we need them because without him the pub would close down so no deal will be fine. He is literally an immigrant living in another EU country and he wants to leave the EU because he has concerns about immigration.
  
  A man on the radio said that no deal will be fine because people didn’t starve during the blitz.
  
  Another man said if lots of people lose their jobs after Brexit we’ll be ok because we’ll be able to go to Germany like we did in the 80’s. (Just imagine being this stupid)
  
  Another one when asked why he wanted to leave on Sky news couldn’t think of one single example other than STRAIGHT BANANAS.
  
  Can someone honestly explain to me how we've ended up in a situation where people have such hatred for the EU that eating rabbits that we’ve presumably shot and skinned ourselves is seen as a better option than staying in.
  
  The EU costs you about 20p a day, even less if you’re on a lower income. I’ve already posted a nice handy calculator so you can see for yourself.
  
  We elect MEP’s in elections every 5 years just like we have a GE every 5 years.
  The heads are elected by the head of state of each member country.
  It is not undemocratic and they are not unelected.
  It has less civil servants for 500 million people than we have for 65 million people.
  If you didn’t bother to vote in the last elections then that’s on you not the EU.
  
  It helps us trade with our closest partners and we then negotiate trade deals with other countries as a collective which has far greater power than a single country.
  
  61% of the trade we do is either with the EU or via trade deals that we have by being in the EU.
  
  This gives us tariff free trade and makes the things we buy cheaper. Contrary to what Mogg and The Sun tell you leaving will not make your food even cheaper. The Sun had to delete that article for being so utterly incorrect. FAKE NEWS
  But we already have some of the best quality and cheapest food in the world. Just how cheap do you want your food. You can buy a whole chicken for 3 quid ffs.
  
  We then trade with anyone else under WTO rules. Being in the EU does not and has never stopped us trading with anyone.
  The WTO is however a basic trade default. No other country in the whole entire world trades on WTO rules only. We’d either have to impose tariffs on everyone or tariffs on no-one. Either way will decimate manufacturing and farming in this country. Anyone advocating WTO has no idea whatsoever how trade works. Even the one economist who actually advocates Brexit admits that WTO only will destroy manufacturing. He’s on film saying those exact words.
  
  We do not have to adopt the Euro by 2022 you silly muppets. That Lisbon treaty you all share is fake. Literally FAKE NEWS.
  We also won the right to not have to bail out any eurozone countries. If they fail we don’t have to get involved.
  
  EU immigrants are net contributors. They pay more into the system than they take out. Some pay less, some pay nothing in at all but the ones who do pay enough to cover all the others with money left over for everyone else. Not that you deserve it. Anyone without a job or the means to support themselves can be made to leave.
  Europeans are you neighbours, your friends, your colleagues at work, your kids friends. Why do you want them to not come here? Based on this vote I would not be married to my husband today because his family would not be allowed in. Is Andrew not British because he has European grandparents?
  My grandson is American. Do you all want to throw him out too?
  Over their lifetime they will earn more and pay more into the system and be less likely to be out of a job then the average Brit.
  
  They do not drive down wages and never have. That is another lie.
  
  They are not taking places in our schools from your kids and making waiting lists longer in hospitals or the doctors. That’s the f.... Tories.
  
  They do not force laws on us. Unless you think making drinks companies tell us what chemicals they’re putting in our drinks is a bad thing for example. Out of the thousands of laws passed there’s literally about 72 things that we disagreed with and most of those related to trading and making consumers more informed and products less damaging to the environment. Our government would rather hide things from consumers and trash the planet. Lower energy lightbulbs and lower wattage vacuum cleaners help the environment. That’s a good thing not bad. But do you really want all the car manufacturers to leave so you can have a more powerful vac? You cannot get to work in a vacuum cleaner. Cars will have tariffs of about 10% of we leave under WTO. When all the car manufacturers leave we’ll have no choice but to buy an imported one. That’s going to cost you a lot more than your 20p a day.
  
  THERE IS NO LAW TELLING US HOW STRAIGHT OUR BANANAS HAVE TO BE.
  
  If we want to trade with other countries, we always have to accept rules and regulations that regulate that trade. Sometimes we might not always agree but if we want to trade we might have to make compromises and accept those rules and regulations But Trump for example will force us to lower our food standards if we want a trade deal. Being on our own gives us less control than we have now. How is forcing us to accept his standards taking back control?
  
  They did not give Ford a grant to move out of the UK. Or any other company for that matter. Again that list that gets shared is bollocks. Fake News.
  
  The European Court of Human Rights is not part of the EU. We won’t leave that by leaving the EU and we ******* invented it to protect human rights after the war because who doesn’t want human rights. Take those away and you think the Tories won’t strip away all your other rights?
  And whilst we’re on this topic we did not get stopped from deporting someone just because they had a cat.
  
  Freedom of movement is reciprocal. That means we can also live work study and retire and marry someone in 30 European countries.
  
  The only people who will lose this is US.
  Europeans won’t. They have the rest of Europe
  
  We’re taking away this opportunity from all of our children. You might want to stay here. Your kids might not. Why do you even want your kids to have this opportunity taken away?
  As well as not actually being allowed here Andrew would not have the job he has today if it wasn’t for freedom of movement. It can give your kids far greater opportunities than not having it. We are living proof of this. This will become even more important on the future. If we want to be Global Britain having the chance to actually easily live and work in some of that globe would be nice.
  
  We do not have open borders. Go abroad and try and get back in without crossing a hard border. You can’t.
  We are not in Schengen. If you still don’t know what Schengen is get in the ******* bin.
  Schengen is actually ace though. It’s like driving from Yorkshire to Lancashire except you’re in an awesome new country with different cultures, food, languages etc which isn’t Lancashire.
  
  Asylum seekers do not come here because of freedom of movement.
  Leaving the EU will not stop anyone from claiming asylum here and neither should it.
  It is a totally different process. Leaving the EU will actually stop us from being able to send those coming from Calais back to France.
  But we have a legal and moral obligation to accept asylum seekers. If you have a problem with this you’re an utter bastard. Leaving the EU doesn’t stop asylum seekers. Even the ones who aren’t genuine. They get deported.
  
  We can have blue passports even if we stay in. The EU didn’t make us have burgundy ones.
  
  We have a veto on an EU army. We could stop it from happening. If we don’t have a vote we can’t and it will still happen if they agree to it. But can someone explain why am EU army is bad. Pooling our resources lessens the burden on individual countries.
  
  We’re also not going to lose our veto. That’s something else that’s in the FAKE Lisbon treaty. Again it’s FAKE.
  
  Almost three years has passed and still the government have no clue because there was never a plan and people are still peddling or still believing the same lies.
  
  This is insanity. It needs to be stopped.
  
  Revoke article 50. Sit back relax and re-evaluate. Brexit has destroyed us and we haven’t even left yet.
  Mays deal is dreadful. Both sides agree on that. No deal is dead thank god. But Mays deal leaves us in limbo for years. This is only the beginning if we leave with her deal.
  
  We can SAVE 39 BILLION and no doubt another billion that she’s going to bribe the DUP with.
  Imagine what we can do with that money instead?
  
  And in the European elections actually go and vote rather than moaning.
  
  Stop voting for UKIP and vote for people who will actually turn up.
  Even Farage wants to stay. He doesn’t want to lose his seat.
  
  Email your MP and do it today.

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