I dislike the EU intensely. I’m voting to Remain in.
I get the desire to send RAF Typhoons on punitive strikes against the wasteful and absurd Strasbourg Parliament building, with or without the MEPs still inside. I understand the desire to have HMS Dragon, the most modern air-defence destroyer on the sea to be deployed against Spanish fishermen. I get the desire to set fire to French sheep (mainly because you’d get in less trouble than you would setting fire to French farmers). I too deplore the wasteful CAP. Above all, I want the entire commission, parliament and bureacuracy of the EU lined up and bogwashed by the smelliest upper-sixth prefect, one after the other while they practice their English irregular verbs. All right-thinking people agree.
The most likely scenario should the UK leave the EU, is that not a lot would change. There will of course be some disruption before people realise this, probably leading to a small recession. But upon UK leaving the EU, slipping into the EEA will feel like a more comfortable shirt. Long-run, we may even be better off and happier. This will likely suit our historic national desire for “the open sea” over the continent. But UKIPpers will still be grunting about immigrants, and deplore the fact we still have to obey EU rules. But as we will no longer have any formal means to influence them all that much, they’ll have to lump it. Thankfully without their MEPs (and EU money) they’ll fade away.
Stay in and be a constant pressure for reform in everything EU. We will eventually make enough allies to change things, but it won't be easy.
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We won't have to abide by EU rules if we aren't in the EU….
Fair enough but you're still wrong.
It's a fucking disaster and getting worse not better, fast.
Everything they touch turns to shit.
In one sense it's irrelevant whether we leave or not because the whole fucking shambolic disaster will collapse at some point whether we stay or leave. However if it does so sooner then there's a sporting chance of salvaging something from the wreckage.
If it lurches on for another 30 years then the damage will take generations to fix.
So carry on vote with your pocketbook. It's your blog and that's your privilege. However, you'll be making a mistake.
For forty years we been telling them they are going in the wrong direction. in the beginning we had a hand on the brake, now all we can do is sit in the back seat and whisper "stop", the joy of 'qualified majority voting'.
Each new disaster and they just insisting the need for 'more Europe', heading for the rocks even faster.
This is our last chance to get to the lifeboat, use it.
We don't need to be in the EEA, we don't need trade deals – trade deals are for closed markets, we should trade in the global market.
Just because you don't like Farrage/UKIP is no reason to sink with the EU ship.
Save yourselves while you still can.
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