General Discussion
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.
It would be highly ironic if a Brexit result caused the Scots to vote for independence; no longer wishing to be part of the UK, but entirely happy to be subsumed by Brussels.
Yesterday's propaganda event by Cameron was paid for by the taxpayer, not by the IN campaign. Cameron is cheating and fiddling his way through the entire referendum campaign.
Cameron only offered the referendum because UKIP were getting a bit too popular in the polls, he never actually believed he would have to deliver on his promise, but the way things turned out he couldn't backtrack and now he's a desperate man. His speech today makes a nonsense of the threat that he would walk away from the recent EU summit if he did not get the concessions demanded, he had ...
Quite simply, roberta, I don't think it fair that certain sections of society get stung with inordinately high taxes when others pay little, or no tax at all.
@leatash - why should drinkers get clobbered all the time?
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