Is the end of the EU in sight?
Democracy, what democracy?
The United Kingdom's democratic vote to leave the EU in 2016 seemed to show an indication of what the British public desired - separation from the European super state.
That this vote result was almost trashed by some who decided that their point of view counted more than the citizen, showed a degree of arrogance and an affront to democracy.
When you hold an election, the winner is the winner, yet with Brexit, it seemed there were some who could not accept democracy.
Freedom, perhaps?
So the questions I have for Remainers are easy to answer, but what do they see in the EU that blinkers them to the obvious?
1. Is it common sense to throw back fish because a quota has been reached?
2. So when more fish are inadvertently landed, that the process happens again and tons of perfectly edible food are junked because of this stupid edict? what is the sense here?
3. What do you get for paying the EU around £53 million a week? A free no passport travel situation. And not much else.
4. Are nation states not grown up enough to be able to make their own laws, set their own tax rates and manage their own affairs? Or does the EU just treat them as imbeciles and take their money for the privilege of telling them what to do?
5. How much money does the EU rake in from its member states?
6. Where and how is it spent?
Maybe that's the rub... And when I put these questions to apparently brainwashed Europhiles, they have no real answers. Especially about the money.
Follow the money.
I wonder why we aren't allowed to see audited accounts from the EU?
When you see a label 'funded by the EU' that's because the money we pay comes back and we largely 'pay' for the funding that the EU so generously gives out.
The audacity of leaving
There was much publicity given to the fact that the UK would be punished for having the audacity and temerity to leave the EU, so, that threat does nothing for the EU. In fact it shows that there is desperation in the EU to resort to threats of future trade and negotiations in order to scare and cajole, well it didn't work and it won't.
Well, in my view, if that is their pattern of behaviour then perhaps others will adopt the same stance as the UK and leave.
We stood alone in 1940, we traded outside of the EU before 1973 and we have been very successful too.
The problem is its about the money.
When Britain leaves the EU on January 31st, the money should stop, future demands for divorce bills of £39 billion should be ignored.
That means the UK can disregard being told where and how much to spend on foreign aid and perhaps start spending that money at home on things like dementia care, potholes in the roads (which we surely pay for in vehicle excise duty?), the NHS and many other situations in the UK.
But that's the rub.... it means that EU nations, many already in or teetering into recession will have to make up the UK's contributions.
The EU Tsunami
Its a perfect storm potentially coming for the EU, in that the UK can pursue trade deals elsewhere it pleases, if the EU plays bully boy, the UK can walk away and embrace a potentially amazing trade deal with the US.
If the UK stops buying EU goods, the EU is going to start collapsing and that's before the other member states decide to vote and possibly vote to leave the EU.
Look to your history books
All the previous attempts to 'unite' and make a European super state, from Julius Caesar to Adolf Hitler have all failed. The EU will too.
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