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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
Given previous and indeed current experience is this surprising?
If we were not so insular we'd be getting tapped for potentially 20bn Euros to bail out Greece.
Sorry but I don't think we're insular, I do however think we've every right to be distressed at how power has been devolved away from our own elected government to one that makes a mockery of democracy in Brussels. If we were not so 'insular' we'd I speculate a similar level of control over our own affairs directly to US states. As it is we're merely slightly better off, though this is being worked on.
We are not France or Germany or the Netherlands, we are British. We have a totally different economy to the rest of Europe which is not compatible with the same management as those states and a totally different people.
If desiring sovereignty, self-determination and individualism rather than being just another one of the United States of Europe having pointless bureaucratic piece of excremental legalese covered paper after pointless bureaucratic piece of excremental legalese covered paper flowing from Brussels to keep the overpaid, expensive, grossly inefficient, self-interested and big state obsessed bureaucrats there in jobs makes me insular then sign me up. |
I don't completely disagree with this. It's quite clear that it is better that we maintain control on our currency and our economy. Isn't part of the problem with the Euro that states actually continue to have quite a bit of control and thus make a single currency difficult to maintain as it is subject to a lot of differing factors.
Either way. I don't support joining the Euro.
I do support some of the things the EU does bring though. I think the freedom of movement across Europe is good, the freedom to work where you want is good, increased cooperation between law enforcements is good. I think where we can we should be closer with the EU, there are a lot of benefits. I suspect a few of our members who work here but are of a different EU nationality will agree with that?
The EU suffers from being bureaucratic, large and inefficient but that is an argument to reform the way it works rather than the benefits it brings?