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Who would want us to join the EU now if we had never been in it?
Join now to help Turkey join in the next five years?
Pay to prop up the PIIGS?
Join now to open our borders without any legal right to barrier to anyone?
Join now to pay £350m a week of money we desperately need here?
Join to dismantle our own armed forces?
I don't think anyone sane would vote for that so why vote remain?
and (expat) s are the only people stoopid enough to want that as a future....
Thickos forever focusing on the short term and protectionism
"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain
How do you know we wouldn't join? If we hadn't joined in the first place, Britain would now be a very different place. Perhaps we'd be like Turkey is now - desperate to join (but unwilling to meet the conditions)!
A better question (and more meaningful) would be - given what we know now, would we have joined the EU in 1973? Remainers would probably say "yes", exiters would say "no". And the reasons would be pretty much the same as are being given now for voting one way or the other.
How do you know we wouldn't join? If we hadn't joined in the first place, Britain would now be a very different place. Perhaps we'd be like Turkey is now - desperate to join (but unwilling to meet the conditions)!
A better question (and more meaningful) would be - given what we know now, would we have joined the EU in 1973? Remainers would probably say "yes", exiters would say "no". And the reasons would be pretty much the same as are being given now for voting one way or the other.
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