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Originally Posted by Incognitas
I don't want us out of Europe I just don't want us in a federal state of Europe.
It's not what I voted for in the referendum what ever Edward Heath thought.If I'd actually been asked I'd would have said no.All I voted for was to join a Common Market.
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Well said
I was too young to have a vote then but realistically that is what Europe was about, and what it should still be about.
Somehow over time the principle of free trade and a level playing field for all countries in the Common Market, or Eurpoean Economic Community as it became, has become confused with a need for legislation that now affects all aspects of our life. I fail to see how ideas of integrated EU foreign policy, a European Army and even a European Court really promote this free trade process. I cannot understand why we must potentially loose control of our own taxation and similar economic issues if realistically the aim of free trade must surely be to allow every body to sell or buy goods or services at the most competetive price or value, provided that appropriate standards for the product are met.
I don't necessarily support a complete withdrawal of Britain from the EU. But I certainly don't support us loosing further controls to centralisation, which has nothing to do with the ideal of free trade.