Time To Leave The EU?

Well, I didn't think he would do it but he has. When push came to shove, David Cameron vetoed the proposal of a new European Treaty to allow Germany and France to impose financial controls on all the countries of Europe with little or no democratic control. Merkel and Sarkozy are now determined to put together an "accord" which will allow those countries that wish to join the inner Europe an opportunity of taking part in the discussions. I think this will primarily be Germany and France. Maybe Belgium and Holland will sign up but I am doubtful about the countries of Southern Europe unless their un-elected governments are allowed to bamboozle their electorates into allowing it to happen. If these talks make any progress then I think Britain should go the whole hog and leave the EU. If there is some kind of accord between a small number of the 27, who will pay for the operation of the inner circle? Why should Britain pay money to the EU in order to allow them to manipulate the systems in ways that would be to our disadvantage?

I may be anti- Europe and so may many of the electorate in the UK. But we are by no means unique. What will Ireland do? Already the Irish are weighed down by austerity measures imposed by Brussels and yet a very large part of their business is with the UK. Would they not be better with a resurrected Pund linked to Sterling? Will Denmark sign up? Will Sweden? Both countries are outside the Euro and doing quite well. I think we are getting very close to the point where Britain just detaches from Europe completely.

Before we became a full member of this bureaucratic nightmare, we were a member of EFTA - the European Free Trade Association. EFTA still exists although it has been diminished by countries leaving — like Britain — and joining the EU. I think it is time to look again at the possibility of our co-operating with the EFTA and possibly taking other countries with us. The remaining members are Switzerland, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. Only Switzerland and Norway have got significant populations but all four are doing rather well compared with the Euro countries. EFTA worked very well in the old days and I would be much happier working with the group of countries of the old EFTA in a free trade area — without the vast clogging, money wasting uselessness of Brussels.

We have to wait to see what happens next but I think Boris Johnson hit the nail on the head when he suggested that the situation in Europe was like taking a patient into hospital suffering from cancer and watching the doctors fighting to save the cancer at the expense of the patient.

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