Given that the EU is now just a vehicle for former Soviet Bloc countries to get a bunch of cash and a free ride from the other member nations, and for the French to work half as much as anyone else (when they're not busy striking), and the Spanish to nick all our fish, isn't it time the UK left the EU and joined forces with Germany - lets face it, strongest economies in Europe, modern, civilised, enough agriculture to be self-sufficient, hard-working, industrialised and so on, and we leave the rest of the EU to drown in their own weak economies?
(probably too strongly put, to be fair, but there you have it)
2006-10-09 05:20:40 · 10 answers · asked by BushRaider69 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
as far as the french go the best quote i ever heard was ..... never trust a man who shags sheep and burns the evidence. Nuff said
2006-10-09 08:12:30 · answer #1 · answered by keg 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
"The Common Market: We went into it to screw the French by splitting them off from the Germans. The French went in to protect their inefficient farmers from commercial competition. The Germans went in to purge themselves of genocide and apply for readmission to the human race."
We've swallowed the wine lake and the butter mountain, we've watched our French friends beating up British lorry drivers carrying British lamb to the French. We have bowed and scraped, doffed our caps, tugged our forelocks and turned the other cheek, but I say enough is enough!
We do not need Germany either, as for those saying we are dependent on trade on from other European Countries, that is quite simple we can withdraw from the EU but keep it as a free trade area. (Much like what the USA has with Canada)
Germany's economy has also been weakened since joining the Euro zone and at the very least we should keep the pound!
2006-10-09 05:41:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The strength of the EU is its diversity and the size of the market. The fact that all the economies are not operating at the same high level is actually a plus in a common market. If they were there would be no room for internal growth. The UK and Germany would find it difficult to go it alone unless they had access to the wider EU.
2006-10-09 06:58:16 · answer #3 · answered by bob kerr 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
The UK should stay where it is with their own currency.
When China takes the artificial caps off the yuan and opens their currency for a free market economy only the dollar and the british pound will survive the devestation. The euro (and along with it the EU) will cease to exist.
2006-10-09 05:24:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
the UKs is dependent on imports from the small European nations because are government is stopped producing them here so if we leave we will have to pay more this is because are government is to stupid to encourage
industrial growth.
eg TVs radios and other electronic goods leaving the EU would be catastrophic mistake.
2006-10-09 05:28:42 · answer #5 · answered by mat67 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Unelected bureaucrats, increasing and sometimes irrelevant legislation, unaudited accounts, commissioners who cannot resolve issues and what appears to be a gravy train for those in its employ! Why would we want to continue to be part of it?”
2006-10-09 10:02:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's stupid to be half-in,half out, of the EU.We should go all the way in & form a United States of Europe.Then we will be strong enough to take on the Mighty Dollar.
2006-10-09 05:36:26 · answer #7 · answered by michael k 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I with you on this in principle, but do we really need the Germans?
Resurrect the Commonwealth, I say.
2006-10-09 05:23:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We should never have had anything to do with it in the first place.
2006-10-09 06:15:33 · answer #9 · answered by Veritas 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i dont know
2006-10-09 05:27:58 · answer #10 · answered by sashjohn 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋