In or Out?

[Troll]

I can't see people near the Russian border being satisfied hiding behind a free trade agreement.

Far away countries of which we know little

[VectraMan]

It's about sovereignty. That's what we fought two World Wars for. Anyone voting in deserves everything that will inevitably follow.

We fought two world wars because our leaders knew how important it was for the UK to play a key role in a peaceful, stable Europe and not allow it to become a hostile (to us) superpower dominated by Germany.

[scooterscot]

Far away countries of which we know little

Still it doesn't stop us bombing the tulip out of them.

[VectraMan]

Isn't the fact that we have laws foisted upon us without the ability to say no a complete lack of it?

Name one such law.

[Troll]

not allow it to become a hostile (to us) superpower dominated by Germany.

It already is ( maybe not hostile yet)

[darmstadt]

Isn't the fact that we have laws foisted upon us without the ability to say no a complete lack of it?

Maybe those MEPs (I'm looking at the kippers here) that were voted in could do something about that, oh, I forgot, most of them don't attend or vote the other way

[Troll]

Still it doesn't stop us bombing the tulip out of them.

We've bombed Ukraine/Belarus/Latvia/Estonia/Lithuania - must have missed those news articles

[Troll]

Did the EU budget audit ever get signed off?

[barrydidit]

You think we'd be able to opt-out of the eurozone if so?

Who the feck knows? Anything is possible, it's just a bunch of made up rules. What we can be pretty certain of is that nothing will happen if we vote 'everything is awesome'.

[SimonMac]

Corporations will still take the cheapest path to resource projects and if that means bringing in overseas workers, they will. All it will do is create more bureaucracy, costs will be passed onto the end clients.

Agree 100%

Can't see any reason why more PS jobs would suddenly appear, especially given the current Governments commitment to cut public sector spending.

Agree 100%

It will do nothing to address the issue of Non-EU migrants arriving. It won't suddenly make all those poor bastards in Calais disappear or stop them trying to get here.

Agree 100%

It will make life harder for UK nationals who want to live or work in Europe.

Agree 100%

It will make life harder for UK companies wanting to do business in Europe and reduce the Governments ability to lobby on behalf of UK PLC in Europe. Example - Norway is already in this situation. They are not part of the EU, but in order to sell to EU countries they still have to abide by EU regulations. They have no say over what these might be and no influence to change them if they are found to be excessive.

Not sure on this one, the market will still be there and that will be driven by demand as the demand won't change, people will just adapt to a new set of rules and hurdles to jump through

Yes we would save money through not contributing to the budget, but this relies on the money saved being reallocated back to those areas that actually get cash from Europe, especially in science and technology research where we get more back from the EU in grants than we contribute. The UK has a terrible track record of investing in this area and I have no confidence the money would be spent here rather than simply being trousered by the government and squandered elsewhere.

Agree 100%