should the UK be in the EU?

Question

please stop telling me the UK is in the EU, i know that i do live there

Answer 1

The UK is a member of the EU. Yes it should remain there. The EU is a precursor of the economic union that should spread to all countries eventually.

Answer 2

Britain joined the EU on January 1, 1973.

However your question should be one of these two:

Q1) When will the UK Join the single European currency?

OR

Q2) When will the UK sign the European constitution?

A1) Like the chancellor says, when the conditions are right for us to join.

The rest of Europe is tired to shared interest rates as part of the single European currency. This has been a problem of some nations for a while now, historically the interest rate could be adjusted to effect inflation, Which in turn effects unemployment. This is a very crude tool that works on fear, mainly the fear that you will loose your house if you can’t afford to pay the bills. To remove control of this tool could cripple the UK putting millions of people on the street.

A2) When there is proportional representation in the European union.

Each country has a number representatives that vote in the European parliament and the number is not proportional (i.e. it is the number per country and not the number populace). Due to European expansion and eastern European fragmentation (for ethnic reasons, see Yugoslavia), countries joining have very small populations but a very large say on how tax is spent. As the UK, Germany & France have large populations they will have less say how this money is spent but will be contributing the largest amount. Until this is addressed, there is no incentive for the UK to commit any further to the EU, in fact it would make financial sense to withdraw (assuming trade with Europe would be unaffected).

Another good reason for this is immigration, running high in the UK. Over 1 million people have immigrated to the UK since 2004. The rest of Europe has placed limits on immigration, at around 100,000 per year. As a result the UK population is already paying a large cost for membership. If it continues at this rate then the UK’s public services will fail & you may begin to see the total collapse of the UK.

Answer 3

One of the biggest problems with the EU is France, and the fact that they are unwilling to do what they are told or even negotiate on most matters. I think their favourite word is Veto.

Anyway, it’s useful to be in the EU, because it means the UK has more power - economically and in the markets. Being in the EU allows you free movement of goods and workers.

As for the currency, our economy is very different to that of mainland Europe; take for instance right now - our economy is very strong whereas France and Germany are really struggling. So what if the EU changed interest rates to help France and Germany? If we had the Euro, this move might help them, but really hurt us. It is for that reason that i think we should keep the pound and control our own interest rates etc.

Also, the bigger the EU is, the more competitive it is against the huge markets of America and Asia. We could be the biggest melting pot in the world... if we would all stop being so spiky and just melt a little!

So yes i think it is beneficial to us to be in the EU however, because our economy is so different to many other EU countries, it really is best that we keep the pound.

Answer 4

Go to http://europa.eu/ You will realise that the UK is part of the EU, and has been for sometime. I think they should remain in the EU as the EU is getting stronger than the USA. Look at the Euro, when it first came out, the US dollar was stronger. But now the EURO is much stronger than the US dollar, and it is getting stronger.

Answer 5

Yes. Heres some points

1) We've been in the Union since the 70's, and its done us nothing but good. The Eurozone is one of the biggest growing markets on the planet

2)Europe has had its longest period of peace in its history. We've stopped acting like imperial children, and started acting like Brothers, which is what we are

3) The EU is the only effective way Britain can hope to keep its status as a 'great power'.

Answer 6

UK has unique position, we sit between the US and the EU, but also have our commonwealth. For years we have been pushed and pulled between all three.

We need the EU, since the EU (with UK) would be largest world economy, but we need to keep our links with USA and remember the commonwealth. It's all just a balance, trick is, getting the balance right

Answer 7

The US is praying that we reject the EU so that they can use us a their quaint old holiday village, where black and white Britons would be trained to smile in a subservient way and learn to say " Have a good day, I hope you enjoy your stay". And we will have little name badges and ID tags so they can complain if we don't show an acceptable level of grovelling. Pick up bags and fetch and carry and change the sheets and take the dog to "Little ol Hyde Park". Buckingham Palace Hotel would be where the Royal family meet and greet the "Celebrities" to make sure all is well. "Good ol Queenie". That is the life that awaits you.Get me? They will buy up all our industry and financial services because of the economics of scale and we will be totally dependent. And little kids will order us around like toadies. That is what the US really want. Now you know what are you going to do about it. Its happening already. Listen to the PM grovel. That is small beans. When our great Queen has to rush off to Heathrow Airport to greet Angelina Jolie and Tom Cruise, then the game will be truly up!

Answer 8

The UK is already in the EU, although they sometimes feel they are not. And when they speak about Europeans they mean people from the Continent.

Answer 9

It is in the EU and it should stay there.
Why do you think so many European countries are in it?
Why do you think there is a waiting list for countries to join?
Why do you think the EU has put economic standards for countries wishing to join?
Quitting Europe now would be like saying "Electricity? Tried it, but I think I'll go back to candles, thank-you very much."

Answer 10

NO!! The country was taken into Europe by a load of lies!! Assisted by the French!! It began with the famously undistinguished Edward Heath - "Ted the Traitor" as the tabloids later baptised him. Heath was primarily responsible for taking Britain into the early European Economic Community (EEC) and for identifying the Tory party so strongly with Europe.
A defeatist and closet socialist, Heath believed that Britain needed something to get her going again. He felt that she could not do it by herself; that without Europe she would remain insignificant in Western affairs. Though always loudly protesting the virtues of democracy, there was nothing democratic in the way he eased the UK into Europe. The people had nothing to do with it.
*He deliberately and wilfully deceived them about the Common Market. He swore it was a purely trade association, an attempt to form a gigantic free trade area leading towards a family of sovereign states, cooperating freely and vigorously on a range of mutually advantageous issues. In short, a United States of Western Europe, what De Gaulle termed the union des Patries.*
An official Tory White Paper on Britain's entry into the European Community stated categorically: "There is no question of any erosion of essential national sovereignty." It was all moonshine, of course. Heath lied through his teeth.
He knew exactly - because he had already been given the facts - that what was under way was an ambitious scheme of political amalgamation on socialist lines. His informant was none less than the father of Euro-union, the French socialist, Jean Monnet, who believed that Europe should become a federal superstate into which all its ancient states should be fused - "fused" being his word.
Monnet's plan of action was just as clear. He believed that Europe's nations should be guided towards the suprastate without their peoples ever understanding what was afoot. Public debate, he maintained, would be "counter-productive." Monnet confided this whole programme to Heath on May 6, 1970.
Enoch Powell, an implacable enemy of European integration, warned from the word go that when the Euro-planners talked of "a family of nation states," surrender of national sovereignty was what they had in mind. No one heeded. Powell eventually left the Conservative Party because it not only ignored but also derided his warnings. !! How right Enoch Powell was!!! So again I say NO !!!!!!