Are we content with our membership? Are we given the information we need to make a judgement?
What are the alternatives?
2006-09-25 01:48:18 · 13 answers · asked by MCP 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
The tide of refuse from Eastern Europe. Giant legal aid bills due to "human rights" legislation. Being told what we can and cannot do by a fringe of unelected foreigners who may never set foot in your country. Tony Blair has pledged £6bn to improve Polands railway system this year. While our hospitals are being closed and our resources are at breaking point due to immigration quotas we never asked for.
2006-09-25 01:54:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's important that member countries continue to realise that while they are indeed separate entities, they do interact with each other in a "World Community"--and as such should try help shape the agenda for the region. No nation-state can effective do this if they desire isolation. . .just take a look at North Korea and we can see the fruit of extreme isolation.
2006-09-25 01:52:38 · answer #2 · answered by kobacker59 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
we get much more in the way of human rights as a result of EU laws, our maximum working week has been pegged, and if you do work longer hours you have to have more time off, gone are the days Drs worked 96 hour shifts, and therfore we are much safer if ill. We could have a better more stable currency if we joined the Euro, then it would be cheaper to go on holiday to europe as we wouldn't have to pay bank charges whenever we changed currency. We have the right to live and work in any EU country. Our exports and imports from the EU are much cheaper, therefore we sell more to them, and those things we import don't cost as much. We actually get more back than we pay in. Alternatives would be to join in with other countries such as the USA as a consortium for cheaper trade, but trade and travel to our nearest neighbours would be much more disadvantageous to us, particularly as we get a vast amount of our vegetables etc from the EU.
2006-09-25 02:09:03 · answer #3 · answered by mike-from-spain 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Most of our improvements to workers rights have come from EU legislation.
We are free to travel, work and live in other EU countries - many of which are a better place to live than dreary old England
A united Europe keeps us free from the petty nationalisms that have torn the Balkans apart and tore Europe apart in 1914 and 1939.
As part of the EU we have a bigger voice in the world than as a small, third rate country desperately trying to cling to past glories, and suceeding only in appearing to be the USA's faithful poodle.
2006-09-25 02:26:16 · answer #4 · answered by intelligent_observer 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The right to live and work anywhere in Europe.
What are the alternatives? Move outside Europe.
2006-09-26 16:34:04 · answer #5 · answered by karlrogers2001 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow, we are improving Poland's railway system? That'll pay back tenfold as it betters the access to the Russian market, which Europe is becoming dependent on.
And what is wrong with Human Rights?
2006-09-25 01:58:45 · answer #6 · answered by dane 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Loss of sovereignty, the loss of the ability to govern own domestic affairs without intrusion from rules & regulations imposed by the EU.
2006-09-25 01:51:06 · answer #7 · answered by Andrew T 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The EU is a God send to the UK.
A better currency, better rights and protections. Your a part of a family of nations that care for one another.
2006-09-25 01:49:44 · answer #8 · answered by Villain 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Extended economic frontiers
2006-09-25 01:57:00 · answer #9 · answered by orsel 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i am pro euro,travel to euroland twice a year,we are ripped of in the u.k.i do not want to be part of the u.s.states.
2006-09-25 01:54:49 · answer #10 · answered by steven e 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋