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What has Europe done for you?
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles /news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=488339&in_p age_id=1811
Is this the last nail in the coffin for overall European control?
That coward Brown was late for the signing due to a diary mix-up according to Downing Street. Diary mix-ups missing discs, no referendum, it goes on and on. When are they going to agree that this Goverment is not "fit for purpose"?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles /news/news.html?in_article_id=488223&in_page_i d=1770
Is this the last nail in the coffin for overall European control?
That coward Brown was late for the signing due to a diary mix-up according to Downing Street. Diary mix-ups missing discs, no referendum, it goes on and on. When are they going to agree that this Goverment is not "fit for purpose"?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles /news/news.html?in_article_id=488223&in_page_i d=1770
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Well without free movement of workers across Europe we probably wouldn't have enough skilled workers where I work for the place to be viable so I wouldn't have my job.
�4.6 Billion of EU money has gone into Science projects a healthy proportion of which goes to the UK
The EU paid for the overhead powerlines in my village to be replaced with safer underground ones - I didn't find this out until I talked to the guys doing the work - often this sort of thing seems to happen without any advertising of the fact.
Which is probably why questions like this keep coming up.
I think Brown's to be commended for not letting all the Europhobic little Englanders bully him!
�4.6 Billion of EU money has gone into Science projects a healthy proportion of which goes to the UK
The EU paid for the overhead powerlines in my village to be replaced with safer underground ones - I didn't find this out until I talked to the guys doing the work - often this sort of thing seems to happen without any advertising of the fact.
Which is probably why questions like this keep coming up.
I think Brown's to be commended for not letting all the Europhobic little Englanders bully him!
I might be wrong, but I seem to remember reading that the UK puts a lot more � into Europe than what we get back.
So presumably if we weren't in the EU, all of the good things which have happened would still have been done, but there would be more money left over for other things like.... oh i don't know, better public transport, life saving cancer drugs etc etc
If someone can prove that we don't lose out by being in Europe - I'd love to see it!
So presumably if we weren't in the EU, all of the good things which have happened would still have been done, but there would be more money left over for other things like.... oh i don't know, better public transport, life saving cancer drugs etc etc
If someone can prove that we don't lose out by being in Europe - I'd love to see it!
So would I, Emu.
The latest additions to the EU family are overjoyed with their admission � as overjoyed as I would I be if I'd opened a joint bank account with Bill Gates.
Now clamouring to join the club is Turkey, then probably Croatia and Macedonia. See how we Brits (whether pro or anti Europe) enjoy that when it happens.
The so-called advantages of EU membership for the UK include nothing that we could not have achieved by ourselves and in any case are completely overwhelmed by the disadvantages.
Many countries in Europe survive (and indeed prosper) quite well outside the EU and there is no reason why we should not do likewise.
Oh, and we would survive without the imported labour if the government had the will to get the 5 million or so people who have no intention of working for a living off their backsides, instead of showering them with taxpayers� money and importing labour.
The latest additions to the EU family are overjoyed with their admission � as overjoyed as I would I be if I'd opened a joint bank account with Bill Gates.
Now clamouring to join the club is Turkey, then probably Croatia and Macedonia. See how we Brits (whether pro or anti Europe) enjoy that when it happens.
The so-called advantages of EU membership for the UK include nothing that we could not have achieved by ourselves and in any case are completely overwhelmed by the disadvantages.
Many countries in Europe survive (and indeed prosper) quite well outside the EU and there is no reason why we should not do likewise.
Oh, and we would survive without the imported labour if the government had the will to get the 5 million or so people who have no intention of working for a living off their backsides, instead of showering them with taxpayers� money and importing labour.
Sorry, but this "we put more into the EU then we get back" is misleading.
The EU is not an investment bank. You don't put some money in and hope to get some back 'but bigger'
Best estimates are that for every �50 UK spends on membership of the EU and the single market our economy benefiits to the tune of �300.
Why else do you think all serious political parties are in favour of EU membership, knowing that they cannot ignore these figures?
The EU is not an investment bank. You don't put some money in and hope to get some back 'but bigger'
Best estimates are that for every �50 UK spends on membership of the EU and the single market our economy benefiits to the tune of �300.
Why else do you think all serious political parties are in favour of EU membership, knowing that they cannot ignore these figures?
The one thing that worries me about being in the EU is not having any control over the numbers of immigrants who will bw able to come and live here. Not because I am racist, xenophobic etc. but because I really do think that the infrastructure that we have at present cannot support them all. I know that we have to import people with skills, but at the same time there is a mass of unemployed people who could be trained to carry out a lot of these jobs. It is said that these immigrant workers carry out the jobs that British natives wont do. Well I think that anyone drawing unemployment benefit who can work but choose not to should be made to work for their benefit. No one, unlesss they are sick or disabled should get a free ride. I am not having a go at people who come here to work, good luck to them. I just question the fact that there does not seem to be any control over the numbers.
http://eutruth.org.uk/
This makes some interesting reading for the pro- Europeans, unless they still refuse to take their heads out of the sand.
What I would like to ask them though, is how many European companies have closed down in Europe to set up in Britain?
Why have most of our fisherman been forced into selling their boats?
Where have all our apple orchards gone?
Why do we no longer have a thriving ship building industry?
Why are we no longer a manufacturing country of which we were he best and now mainly support a service industry, in which we are the worst?
The reason we have a shortage of our own skilled labour force, is because every resources are put into further education for our school leavers. When the fact is many of our young who are not so academically minded finish up kicking their heels on the streets.
This makes some interesting reading for the pro- Europeans, unless they still refuse to take their heads out of the sand.
What I would like to ask them though, is how many European companies have closed down in Europe to set up in Britain?
Why have most of our fisherman been forced into selling their boats?
Where have all our apple orchards gone?
Why do we no longer have a thriving ship building industry?
Why are we no longer a manufacturing country of which we were he best and now mainly support a service industry, in which we are the worst?
The reason we have a shortage of our own skilled labour force, is because every resources are put into further education for our school leavers. When the fact is many of our young who are not so academically minded finish up kicking their heels on the streets.
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