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Interesting article I read at the weekend.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/a...LEX-BRUMMER-pro-EU-explains-changed-mind.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/a...LEX-BRUMMER-pro-EU-explains-changed-mind.html
i hope so I'll probably have a leaving party.Steve, were going to leave just you wait and see...and that's from someone who spends half of the year in Europe!
Dave
Yes it is interesting, more to show that the UK is now banking and servicing biased. What happened to manufacturing and innovation![]()
The question is would our government invest in the UK regions if they had a free hand or just pump more money into London
I have read most of the threads on here about this and although I sit in the OUT camp just now, the arguments most put forward about business and immigration are not in my thinking. I'm far more simply looking at we are massively over subscribed with beurocratic processes and administrators/politicians. Like a lot of us, I have the beast that is local authority, the beast that is Scottish government, the beast that is Parliament and lastly, the beast that is the EU I have to fund without a choice or any real power over what they do with my hard earned cash other than powerlessly watching them fill their own pockets! If only the voting paper had the option of getting rid of more than one of them I'd be happily skipping down to the polling station to put my X against getting rid.......
Then we get hit as an employer by a zillion different rules & regs via Brussels.
Big organisations just don't work...fact. The NHS...break it up...the banks...break em up. .
Big organisations just don't work...fact. The NHS...break it up... .
One thing is for sure though, our roads, GPs, hospitals, schools, housing cannot continue to cope with more and more immigration.
Citizens of other EU countries are actually in a minority among migrants in Britain: most overseas-born UK residents are from further afield, and it’s entirely up to us how we handle them. Meanwhile, within the EU, the principle of free movement is entirely reciprocal, meaning there are almost as many Brits living in other EU countries as there are other Europeans living here. And while many British ex-pats in Europe are retired folk — sunning themselves on Mediterranean coasts and enjoying their right to draw on local public health facilities — most EU workers in the UK are young, hardworking, recently educated at the expense of their home country, who now contribute a third more to the UK exchequer in taxes than they take out in benefits and public services combined.
We had a desperate project of a decent size industrial estate of about 50 units/businesses that have shocking Internet connections. Approx 1mb/s downstream & about 2mb/s upstream. Debilitating and stiffling for all these businesses who cannot work well due to this fundamental lack of a decent Internet connection. We put a proposal together to the whole estate to put an entire local fibre infrastructure of about 20km of OM4 fibre around the estate. Then a 1gb fibre circuit on a 1gb bearer..................We need to support the small guys and individuals with great talent/experience. We need to support creativity & innovation.
I have read most of the threads on here about this and although I sit in the OUT camp just now, the arguments most put forward about business and immigration are not in my thinking. I'm far more simply looking at we are massively over subscribed with beurocratic processes and administrators/politicians. Like a lot of us, I have the beast that is local authority, the beast that is Scottish government, the beast that is Parliament and lastly, the beast that is the EU I have to fund without a choice or any real power over what they do with my hard earned cash other than powerlessly watching them fill their own pockets! If only the voting paper had the option of getting rid of more than one of them I'd be happily skipping down to the polling station to put my X against getting rid.......
ThanksExcellent post. This exemplifies to me why we need closer union and more freedom of movement. Your nightmare project sounds like it would benefit from some German know how, and more importantly, some German politicians rather than the self-serving idiots who have scuppered your scheme.
Obviously a 'zillion' was a flippant word. Is 13% not a lot? I had the impression that there were hundreds if not thousands of new laws initiated by Brussels over our membership term especially more so in last 5 years.A "zillion"?
Only 13% of new laws come from Brussels http://www.richardcorbett.org.uk/uk-laws-from-eu/
That is so wrong. The NHS is simply the best health care system in the world bar none. Nothing comes close to it. France might have better facilities and shorter waiting lists but most people in France have costly private (une Mutuelles) insurance on top of the state provision. As for USA, if you want to break up the NHS and turn us into another USA you must out of your mind.
That is so wrong. The NHS is simply the best health care system in the world bar none. Nothing comes close to it. France might have better facilities and shorter waiting lists but most people in France have costly private (une Mutuelles) insurance on top of the state provision. As for USA, if you want to break up the NHS and turn us into another USA you must out of your mind.
On the subject of voting, there's one question that springs to mind that nobody's dared to mention yet...What's going to happen with the Eurovision song contest if we leave? Will we need to be invited to participate and if we stay, are we going to be subject to yet more political voting. (yes I realise that's technically three questions)![]()