Originally Posted by
westlondoncarparts
With regard to the cost of an egg and bacon breakfast, the EU does not impose export tariffs. If any tariffs were to be imposed that would increase the cost of such a breakfast, they would be import tariffs imposed by the British Government and not by the EU.
With regard to the EU having killed off the livelihoods of many British farmers, can somebody direct us to truthful information about this please? I can understand the impact of the recent abandonment of price setting in the dairy industry but apart from that was not aware of any other significant problem coming from the EU. I always thought that the biggest problem for the British farming sector came from the abuse of purchasing power that is concentrated in the hands of a few very large supermarket chains which is nothing to do with the EU.
Limiting the power size of electrical appliances will have an impact on energy usage across the EU and subsequently a marginal positive impact upon global climate change.
Like many families in the UK, my family had people who fought in the military.
Although they are no longer here and cannot speak for themselves, they did fight for freedom.
I am sure that they would be appalled at the lies that have been promulgated about the EU for years. I am sure also that they would be appalled at the conduct of both sides in the current Referendum debate and the way that neither side is bringing all the issues into the debate and the way that both sides are spinning and misusing statistics.
The people who choose victimhood as a way of life and distort every interpretation of the EU into their vision of victimhood are entitled to do so in a democracy. However, what they show – together with the leading lights on the Remain side – is that the biggest enemy of the British nation is not the EU but some of the British people themselves.
It is quite clear that the military personnel who lost their lives in previous military action lost their lives in vain because this Referendum campaign is being driven by people on both sides of the debate who think nothing of distorting truth to suit their own ends. All that matters is spinning falsehoods in the hope that the electorate can be conned to vote their way. Democracy gives people the opportunity to behave well and also to behave badly. A lot of people in this Referendum debate are not taking any kind of personal responsibility for their actions. Whichever way the vote goes later this month, we are not only going to have to deal with whatever the ongoing relationship with the EU becomes, but we are also going to have to confront the breakdown in integrity and the rottenness of some of our politics that we now have in UK society.