It is democratic. We send 73 people who are voted in by the public to vote and negotiate on our behalf.
In a nutshell, is Farage's argument that we should destroy the economy so that no immigrant, legal or illegal, wants to come here?
No we send 73 people to vote on laws that the eu commision have proposed. The 73 do not actually get involved with making new laws. Just passing them. The group that propose /make the laws are put in ala the communist party. I guess the good thing is that if they want to create big projects they can just spend it without having to worry about the plebs. You better hope that whatever they do is for the greater good and that it doesnt affect you negatively rather than short termism which we get with national governments. Thats the one thing the communist party do well put large projects through
The Brexiters need a catchy football-type chant, optimality with some sort of racist angle to it, and they've definitely got this vote sorted. 'There'll be wire fences over, the white cliffs of Dover' - some sort of variation of Trump's Mexican wall.
I still don't understand how the NHS is going to benefit from us leaving the EU. Yeah, we could possibly get less immigrants in the country but they are mostly healthy young adults, we'll be getting all those decrepit people back from Spain who are used to sitting in the sun all day drinking wine, who would be much more of a drain on the NHS.
Utter classic - just seen someone on the Mail reader section urging people to remember the Rotherham *****phile grooming case and to vote Brexit. As I say, please God it rains or that Wayne and Waynetta are too pissed to vote on the day.
DD....why do you torture yourself with the mail comment section...or do you read it to gauge just how many psychopaths you live near lol
Given that the amount we get back in funding is only a fraction of the amount we pay in, all current EU funding to the Uk could be paid for with billions left over to go on other projects
£350m a week on the NHS - love it. Might be a tad less though when Boris and Gove have given the promised tax cuts to the five families behind the right-wing press.
Not a direct reply to what I've said at all How we would actually spend the money though would depend on which government we have elected and how the government in power choose to spend it.
Okay then, how are we going to generate the £350m a week (or day, or hour or whatever the Mail is claiming today when the economy has collapsed?
Right someone answer me this... The gross is 350m a week. Then rebate. Then money back in funding. So we pay approx 100M in that never returns....a week 1) what does the 150m or so in funding coming back actually go on? No one's been talking about whether it goes to the right places. It may well do but I have seen the split and what it's for? **** bananas etc...It doesn't go on fishing subsidies because almost all the remaining (very few) fishermen support remain. The policy has been hand written for the Spanish. Hence why being one of the few countries to obey the rules we got screwed. The Agricultural funding is a bit different...because of the supermarkets farmers rely on the EU funding to survive: but over here anyway; they feel trapped by it. The funding limits what they can do with their land as it's geared to French agriculture. They're on a lose lose.... 2) Do we believe 100M a week is worth the supposed free trade? If so, tell me how. Tell me in numbers how it would cost more a week with trade costs outside.
Well there we have it - £100m a week extra on the NHS (£5bn a year?), 'maybe' some more on VAT fuel cuts, and 'perhaps we might' be able to help Port Talbot steelworks. Three more weeks to go - that net £100m has already been spent, and we might be spending some more. What percent were our net exports to the EU again? Maybe Winston Peters is going to buy it all for NZ instead though (even though his PM has said the UK should stay in the EU). If they take VAT off Special Brew, Regal Kingsize and give free dog food for Staffies; and free Jeremy Kyle for NHS patients suffering from PTSD for mobility scooter crashes, then Brexit will romp this. Edit: At least they're no longer trying to say they'd spend £350m a week extra on the NHS, like they tried to imply at the start of the campaign.
Look it's really simple. Big farms get huge cheques out of Europe to pay them to have their land. Common agriculture policy.
