Do you think independence from the UK and the EU would benefit England? Why?
2007-08-22 11:54:41 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Mordent - Thankyou for mentioning Norway. Norway happens to have the world's highest Human Development Index, and the world's second highest GDP per capita. It's currency, the Krone, has been growing stronger and stronger since 2002.
2007-08-22 15:04:51 · update #1
Yes.Our schools would be able to give pupils better teaching.
Our NHS would benefit.The money
saved from funding Europe and what are now part of the UK
would be billions.As would the money saved from benefits we
pay to the same peoples today.French,Spanish etc.The housing
problem would be solved as these wouldn't qualify any more.
Our own lazy t wats would have no excuse not to work We could
simply say.No work.No benefits.More fish.Yea.We could help
country's we don't now trade with by trading.List goes on.We
could even become a tax haven.
2007-08-22 12:09:05 · answer #1 · answered by angler 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
If England left the UK the UK would no longer exist. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland would go their seperate ways and we'd be left with 4 countries with next to no power, economic or political. Leaving the EU as well would leave England adrift on a sea of complete ineptitude, backwardness and lack of political say in any matter - and it would practically force us to become the 51st state. It is very hard to be independent if you want a say in anything. Who listens to what Norway says?
Going on your own is a bad thing in a rough world - would you rather you had 20 friends to face your enemies with, or you were just on your own? Plus people seem to forget that Europe giveth as well as taketh away. The Welsh valleys for instance get a lot of funding from the EU because they're so poor.
2007-08-22 14:41:50 · answer #2 · answered by Mordent 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I'm not so sure about the break up of the UK, but i feel we would be much better off without the EU, who do nothing for the UK except cost us money and bureaucracy and implement stupid rules on us, where as the rest of the EU ignore the rules and does their own thing, but good old Britain just gets abused and used by the rest of Europe.
2007-08-22 19:04:18 · answer #3 · answered by junction 19 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Frankly, no. the international's countries develop in capability & length, the final ingredient we would desire to do now's decrease... we've already granted a million/third of the earth independence from our Empire, enable's no longer decrease any further! Us & the Scots would have our squabbles yet we are extra suitable mutually. If England & Scotland have been to cut up it would basically propose granting Brussels extra capability over us, does not sound like independence to me.
2016-10-03 02:15:13 · answer #4 · answered by belvin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Norway seems to do OK without paying in shedloads of cash into the EU, likewise Switzerland.
2007-08-22 11:58:44 · answer #5 · answered by Del Piero 10 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I'm Welsh and think it would be a shame to break up the UK.
Although if England did get independence from the EU I'd move there (with my English other half) as I hate being in the EU. We just get ripped off.
2007-08-22 20:43:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Tell you what.... instead of asking qustions like this on Yahoo Answers, what you really ought to do is get together with like-minded people in Angerland & demans a referendum on the issue (like we did to get the Scottish Parliament), then people in England should take it from there. It would at least show you if there was support there in Angerland for this issue.
2007-08-22 19:59:13 · answer #7 · answered by Jock 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I get your point about the EEC but I think the UK is a great idea. Please don't go down the road we were sent in Scotland with a Joke parliament that's really a huge regional council full of second or even third rate politicians. Have a look at London do you really want someone like Ken or Boris running your affairs. We have had a long list of mediocrity as first ministers up here.
2007-08-22 12:02:54 · answer #8 · answered by john m 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
The split up of the UK would benefit nobody apart from a few nationalist bigots. What practical good would it do us? As for the EU, we get a hell of lot from it in trade and and EU grants. We could leave, but I don't see any pressing need to do so.
I reckon an England on its own without the UK or EU would be a pretty depressing place, full of miserable, xenophobic gits. Everyone else would leave.
2007-08-22 12:04:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
Perhaps, if Britain withdrew from the EU people would then realise more how much we depend upon each other and a new sense of British solidarity would emerge again?
2007-08-23 02:18:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋