EU referendum

movilogo

Assuming we'll never get it in real life, let's have the referendum here.

Going4TheDream

Ha I wondered when this topic would turn up....Should be 3 options maybe , stay in on full membership as we are today, Leave completely , or remain only as EEA & EFTA members? just a thought...

movilogo

I think no body is worried if EU runs as a trading consortium (which it was originally planned for).

People hate when EU tries to dictate its own laws upon us!

Mr_Mumble

Free trade is great. Free trade where all the benefits and more are swallowed up by faceless undemocratic bureaucrats is bad.

For the vote I assumed leaving the EU would mean we remain in the EEA, just like Norway. Or, be a member of EFTA and have billateral agreements as Switzerland has. Either way a free trade agreement would be a no-brainer. Britain is the Eurozone's biggest trading partner and vice-versa.

Mrs_Bones

We should go back to what was originally voted on, a common market of free trade. We never voted for what the EU now is.

Mallotum_X

Overall I think we should stay in, but on renogotiated terms. Trade block, with some common policy but more ability to veto the rubbish, and no more expansion into the east.

oldagetraveller

I voted no in the original EEC referendum and remember at the time never once meeting or hearing of anyone who had voted yes. I have very big suspicions of these government referenda with regards the outcomes. I just don't, and never have, trusted politicians. We're not going to get one about the united states of Europe anyway as the politicians know exactly what the result will be unless it were "massaged"!
I would still vote no, there was nothing wrong with the organisations we were party to then, EFTA etc.

sheffield_lad

Stay a trading partner but leave the union, look at the money we spend to keep French farmers in tractors grrrr

Weak willed Brown also gave most of the rebate we receive back, if Labour get back in how much more will they give away?

Going4TheDream

howee wrote: »

Stay a trading partner but leave the union, look at the money we spend to keep French farmers in tractors grrrr

Weak willed Brown also gave most of the rebate we receive back, if Labour get back in how much more will they give away?

The EEA and EFTA members still have to make a contribution to the EU budget without being able to negotiate the contents and detail of EU legislation, and without receiving benefits such as the exemption from customs requirements and costs.

melbury

oldagetraveller wrote: »

I voted no in the original EEC referendum and remember at the time never once meeting or hearing of anyone who had voted yes. I have very big suspicions of these government referenda with regards the outcomes. I just don't, and never have, trusted politicians. We're not going to get one about the united states of Europe anyway as the politicians know exactly what the result will be unless it were "massaged"!
I would still vote no, there was nothing wrong with the organisations we were party to then, EFTA etc.

I also voted no in the original referendum and would again. I think all the no votes were taken away and burnt:mad:

It has cost this country so much since joining and not just in monetary terms.

Why is it that we are the only ones stupid enough to conform to all their rules and regulations, whilst the other members just choose to comply with laws that are beneficial to them?

A._Badger

I just want to know when all those politicians, journalists and broadcasters who tried so hard to get us to join the Euro are going to be forced to confess their wrong headedness. In public. Preferably on TV.

The pillory and the stocks should follow.