General Discussion
Oooh... "we may just drown" - what a typically spineless comment from a LibDem, no wonder your party was (deservedly) decimated at the last election. This country has been around a damn sight longer than the EU has, and will continue to prosper long after the EU has been consigned to the dustbin of history.
@Lynne The UK is the EU's largest single export market (even larger than the US). Any kind of trade war will harm the EU enormously, it just ain't gonna happen.
"There are some in this country who fear that in going into Europe we shall in some way sacrifice independence and sovereignty. These fears, I need hardly say, are completely unjustified." Prime Minister Edward Heath (TV broadcast January 1973) We were lied to then, and we are being lied to now. Vote Leave.
@Gary Taylor A quote from a chess player? Is that the best you can do? Also from the same website: Brussels press the hold button on Brexit European Union officials aren’t just determined to keep mum during the U.K.’s referendum campaign: They are refusing to move key legislation out of fear that they might fuel support for a Brexit . Officials and politicians ...
The European Commission has delayed revealing its 2017 budget proposals until after the referendum vote. Now there's a surprise: "A Commission official said there was “no link” between the delay and the British referendum, which is set for June 23 . But parliamentary sources said the decision was widely seen as an effort to avoid a discussion of EU spending before the crucial vote. Critics ...
Thanks for the history lesson, but I fail to see how that is relevant to the referendum.
See my post my post 00.:24 today. Germany/Merkel takes centre stage at EU summits, nothing happens without her agreement. She unilaterally invited the world's immigrants into Germany, which by default means the entire EU. Economic arguments aside, that is enough for me to want OUT.
Churchill also apparently said to Parliament in May, 1953: "We have our own dream and our own task. We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked but not combined. We are interested and associated but not absorbed. If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea" Either something happened in the intervening period to change his mind, or he ...
I shall be voting OUT of course. You see, I have a problem with living in a German-dominated United States of Europe.
@Gary Taylor In the event of Brexit, which results in Scotland having a second referendum and subsequently leaving the UK, the newly independent Scots will go knocking at the EU’s door asking to be let back in. They will have left one relatively small, and on the whole, harmonious union only to rejoin a much larger, insidious, union. You don’t find that ironic? I do.