24-02-16, 12:59 PM
Out for me, at least until the Franco-German 'bloc' can learn to be a bit less bossy. Why do all these countries want to give up their individual identities? Is that they only way they can see of avoiding future wars? Here in the UK, we're all for devolving national government so that local needs are better catered for, and I think the same is even more pertinent on international scales. What do Brussels or Berlin know of what we need in Cumbria, or care for that matter? And all the scaremongers who say, "oh, we don't know what 'out' will look like" :rolleyes Like we'd be the only country in the world that values it's independence and survives perfectly well. Do people really think all contact, trade, diplomatic relations, common security concerns etc will completely cease between us and the Euro bloc if we leave? And yet all the other Euro countries are so desperate to keep us inside the EU? The US wants us to stay in, you say? What about losing our special relationship with them? Seems to me that's a one way deal anyway, they get what they want from us, we get feck-all from them - just dictated to.
No, I think it's time we learned to stand on our own feet again. We may not be so much 'Great' Britain anymore, but we have to learn to get along in the world on our own merits. Perhaps we'll be less blasé about our education system and industry etc if we actually need home grown talent to survive in the world.
No, I think it's time we learned to stand on our own feet again. We may not be so much 'Great' Britain anymore, but we have to learn to get along in the world on our own merits. Perhaps we'll be less blasé about our education system and industry etc if we actually need home grown talent to survive in the world.