Excellent article, which I would urge timid and/or undecided possible remainers to read.
2016-04-18 7 risks in voting Remain ..
One point that can't be emphasised enough is that staying in doesn't mean nothing changes, quite the opposite.
We'll find ourselves on a conveyor belt of forced further integration and harmonisation, which the UK will be powerless to resist, whatever pathetic impotent UK politicians like Cameron claim.
2016-04-18 7 risks in voting Remain ..
1. Deeper integration
In June, the EU published its response to the euro crisis, a document known as the Five Presidents’ Report. It set out plans for ‘fiscal and political union’, ‘further pooling of decision-making on national budgets’, and harmonisation of ‘insolvency law’, ‘company law’, ‘property rights’ and ‘social security systems.’ It made clear that these things were to be pursued as ‘single market measures’, applying to all 28 states not just those in the euro. This isn’t some think-tank paper, or some manifesto by crackpot MEPs. It represents official Brussels policy. We can’t say we haven’t been warned ...
In June, the EU published its response to the euro crisis, a document known as the Five Presidents’ Report. It set out plans for ‘fiscal and political union’, ‘further pooling of decision-making on national budgets’, and harmonisation of ‘insolvency law’, ‘company law’, ‘property rights’ and ‘social security systems.’ It made clear that these things were to be pursued as ‘single market measures’, applying to all 28 states not just those in the euro. This isn’t some think-tank paper, or some manifesto by crackpot MEPs. It represents official Brussels policy. We can’t say we haven’t been warned ...
We'll find ourselves on a conveyor belt of forced further integration and harmonisation, which the UK will be powerless to resist, whatever pathetic impotent UK politicians like Cameron claim.
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