Why don't english people believe in EU and EURO?

Question

Hello everybody
i'm italian and i 'm writng u to ask it:
Why don't english people believe in EU and EURO?Last sondage says that english people(maybe for your nationalism?)don't believe in EU.You see that only such as a big market but we don't believe in its values.For me EU is a place of peace where nations that have made for centuries wars each other decide to finish it.EURO now is the most important money of the world but you don't accept it becouse pound is in english DNA.why???

Sorry for my english

for dsclimb1:if you think it why do u accept europen market.Or accept all EU or nothing.you want only good aspects(the biggest market of the world where you can export without customs)but you don't accept the rest

Answer 1

because the it just a big gravy train giving jobs to politicians who would never make it in their own country, with no benefit to the actually host country.

the Euro and the Pound are not the most important, the US and Chinese economies have the most influence.

Do we need to spend billions of wages and EU pensions to have european peace? NO

Do we need laws telling us how big an Apple has to be, to sell in Europe ? No

The EU is just an endless list of pointless laws that the French, German and Spainish don't obey.

The REAL reason europe wants the Pound to merge, is because it is doing so much better than the Euro and Europe needs our strength, along with the Swedish and Danish Krona to survive.

Why do you think the EU spends so much time begging us and other nations to join it, sign the constitution etc.. because they need us, otherwise they would say tough luck and let it go.

EXTRA - Why should there be bad bits, never mind good bits, why create an ADDITIONAL expensive machine if it has bad points, surely it should all be beneficial otherwise why fund it?

Why join an organisation that gives you less than you put in?

Why follow rules, then watch france and german break everyone?

Why set finance targets on borrowing, % GDP etc for Euro entry, then break them (germany, italy) as soon as the currency is up and running?

Answer, because it is an un-sustainable machine, that constantly requires new money, new nations entering it, to keep it running. When then ends, so will the EU. Thus causing a war / conflict that it was meant to stop in the first place, in the BENELUX days.

BIG D - Decimalisation was not anything to do with the EU and it was in 1971, not 1970, so it could not have impacted that much. It was done to bring about a more modern currency system with round numbers, this pretty much paved the way for the City of London and Stock Exchange to become what it is today.

Answer 2

Lets see, what problems might there be with the EU.

- It robs countries of their sovereignty and right to make decisions which affect their own country. We are an independent country and resent European laws which we have no say over.

-It's undemocratic. We can get French and German politicians who we have no say over deciding laws which affect our country. Even our law courts are superseded by the EU court, which has people from other countries sitting on it. We vote for our leaders in Britain, but EU policy is not based on our votes.

- We value our independence, and EU policy is very different to laws and opinion in the UK, and we have no desire to be part of an EU super state.

- Look at most of the laws we've had forced upon us by Europe. Most of them were pointless, many of them actively stupid. Yea, there've been one or two good ones, but it's not as if we couldn't have passed those laws ourselves.

- Proportionally, the countries that stayed out, like Norway and Switzerland, have done much better in recent years in terms of economy than any EU country.

- I hope we can be trusted to not go starting wars with other countries just because we aren't in the EU.

As for the point about us not accepting the rest. So what you're saying is that we benefit from the common market, etc, we should throw ourselves into the bad bits of the EU? What possible benefit would that have to us? We'd be better off out.

As for the Euro:

- We already have one of the strongest currencies in the world, the pound sterling (which, may I remind you, has fared much better than the Euro since its creation). Why do we need the Euro? We don't.

- It would effectively rob us of our capability to deal with large parts of our own economy.

- There's the nationalistic point that many people would prefer to have British money in their wallet than European money.


So, mate, in essence, if you want to sell out your country to a load of foreign bureaucrats, thats your problem (problem being the optimum word). Don't expect us to follow suit.

Answer 3

Greetings and best wishes to you. I did not know that the Euro was an article of religious faith.
I would have thought that as an Italian with the economic problems your country has and has had with the Euro as has Portugal you would not need to ask that question.
I understand that the only people in the EC who likes the Euro rather than their own traditional currency are the EU politicians and civil servants. Yes I do find It useful when I go on holiday, but I would rather suffer the inconvenience than be had by the B---- because UK no longer control its own money

Answer 4

You may all wish to know that a question relating to the UK membership of the EU has been put to the vote as a UK national question at myverdict.net. To put forward a question wher you wish the opinions of another country you can post an international question.

Answer 5

Jacqueline, your answer made me laughing:) What sort of history do you know? British? Certainly not the true one. WWI was "sorted out" by the joint effort of France, the UK and the USA. WWII? This was a matter of the USA and Soviet victory over the Axis powers, with relatively little contribution of your country. Even Churchill had realised that, since at least the Battle of El-Alamein.

Answer 6

Okay, I'm British, so I am able to answer this one 'from the heart'. We understand that Europe is important, however, we don't like the idea of giving up our sovereignty and political decision making to Brussels.

It is always a bad idea to hand over power to someone else. It also leads to various issues. EG Some of the rules may work well for the others but not for us. This can be seen in the way Europe tried to impose the metric system on us.

The Euro is not the most important currency in the world at the moment I would say the $ then the £.

Answer 7

I don't mind the EU much - only the fact that it currently seems to benefit France and Germany more than anyone else.

The problem I have with the Euro is the pound is very strong still, meaning it would be very bad for our economy to join.

Answer 8

Basically because unlike the rest of europe ( with the exception of Denmark) we belive it`s just another mickey mouse currency.At the moment the most stable currency in the world is the British Pound, even the almighty dollar is crumbling.Besides the Pound is the Oldest currency in europe and one of the oldest in the world. I don`t know where you get the idea that the Euro is most important currency in the world, If I remember correctly if it wasn`t for the euro Italy would be bankrupt as the Lira was something like a wheelbarrow of Italian lira for 1 british pound. but then the Italians always did fantasise about they`re importance.As for Europe being a country of peace, I don`t know what type of schools you went to but britain sorted out the last 2 major wars in europe with a bit of help from the USA.+ there is still still a lot of distrust between the Major countries in europe.

Answer 9

The quick, funny(?) answer is that we do believe that they exist, but not that we need them.

The more serioius answer is that we (British, all sorts of us) have different reasons for being seeming to be against the EU and Euro.

I'm actually in favour of the EU, but I have misgivings about the lack of democracy and accountability built into the EU system - a council of ministers ?, there's got to be a better system than that.

I think a lot of Europeans have the same misgivings, but do not voice their concerns as much.

Here're 2 questions whose answers show we have more in common in this regard than generally accepted.
Would you risk your life for your country ?
Would you risk your life for the EU ?

Answer 10

I think a lot of people think that it's a good idea
But being English , I would like to vote on the matter ,

My view is that we are going to join , by the back door and this is the wrong way around the matter.

If the people of England wish not to join , then why should our Govenment force it upon us , after all we are a proud nation