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Originally Posted by Bircho
And gives out citizens the right to live aboard. Approx 1 million British citizens live in Spain alone. What will happen to them?
What is to stop the French saying we do not want to support the camp any more? Is that definite or an assumption on your part? We know what assume stands for.
Or us deporting other EC citizens in this country who commit minor crimes?
45% of our exports are to the EU. 8% of EU exports are to the UK. Who will have the stronger hand in the negotiations? That 8% accounts for 55% of our imports btw
Name one Law that the EU has introduced that has had a negative impact on YOUR life. I give you a positive one to start with, the European Working Time Directive. That would never have been introduced into this country if it wasn't for the EU (both the Conservative government at the time, supported by Labour, opposed it and even took the EU to court to stop it)
How can you potentially lose 45% of your exports and jobs not be affected. Get real.
Again get real You complain about immigration and then want to re-engage with the nations that you probably don't want to deal with.
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Where to start, where to start ...
1. Plenty of Brits lived in Spain prior to 1973. Plenty of Brits live happily in countries all over the world who are not members of the EU. This is so far from being any kind of a problem, it's laughable that any Remainer would even bring it up. Makes you wonder whether even they know they're clutching at straws.
2. Border control arrangements between the UK and France are a bilateral arrangement and are nothing to do with the EU. Regardless of what any middle-ranking French politician may say, there is no legal, technical reason for that agreement to change should the UK exit the EU.
3. The European Arrest Warrant does not make it any easier or harder for us to deport anyone. On the other hand, our membership of the EU *does* make it rather harder for us to permanently exclude any EU citizen from our territory.
4. That's a pretty naff attempt at using percentages to mask the truth. Here's a more prescient statistic for you. The UK imports around €90 billion from Germany each year. It exports about €40 billion of goods to Germany. The UK is Germany's third-biggest export destination after the USA and France. Angela Merkel, BMW and VW are not going to allow trade barriers to upset that.
5. The European food hygiene regulations affected every small B&B in Britain. Previously it was only necessary to register as a food business and submit to inspection if your establishment was beyond a certain size; now, even if you only operate two rooms, for six months of the year, you have to register and your local council has to bear the expense of inspecting you. This entirely disproportionate rule, which superseded UK regulations that were far more reasonable, affects me, as an operator of a small B&B, and every user of a food business in my local authority area when the inspector is wasting his time in my family kitchen instead of in the back room of any other food establishment (such as a chippy or chinese takeaway) where there are exponentially more customers in any given week. How's that for starters?
6. This is not going to happen - get real.
7. The point is to re-gain control of immigration policy. Once we achieve that, we can allow people in according to the needs of our economy.