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Originally Posted by Damien
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?
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Bureaucracies serve themselves, and so much of the EU is relatively socialist and 'big government' relative to the UK. I don't really see how the scenario you describe could happen leaving only one solution. Small and strongly socialist nations get to wield disproportionate power in the EU through bonding with other smaller and like-minded nations while outside of it they wield none. I don't want to see the UK fall further into socialism. It's also my conviction that the EU are authoritarian in their own right, note their total disdain for referendum decisions within nations and the campaigns to either force 'yes' votes with Euro heavyweights wading in in the case of Ireland or evading referenda entirely as in the case of the UK, with Lady Ashton well rewarded for her efforts in subjugating opposition with her new position.
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Originally Posted by punky
I thought a newspaper wasn't supposed to tell its readers to go for anyone? I thought The Grauniad criticises The Sun for telling people to vote Tory?
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Heh you're kidding right?
It was very obvious The Guardian were going to go that way, as obvious as the Mail going to Cameron.
The major newspapers all have a very clear agenda and have all announced their support. So long as they give decent explanations why IMHO that's all good.