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Quote:On a pedantic note, NI isn't in Great Britain, it's in 'The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland'.


I stand corrected mtread.




Quote:Cadbury moved production of several brands to a factory in Poland 2011 with EU grant. Despite promising the workforce they would not.

Cadbury was sold to Mondelez International, which used to be known as Kraft Foods.  Yes big corporations lie, and we let them away with it all the time.  But the EU didn't sell it.

Quote:Jaguar Land Rover has recently agreed to build a new plant in Slovakia with EU grant, owned by Tata, the same company who have trashed our steel works and emptied the workers pension funds. They have not yet said what UK plants will lose out.

Yup Tata don't give a fuck, we sold out to them and let them screw us.  But it wasn't the EU that screwed us.

Quote:Texas Instruments Greenock gone to Germany with EU grant.

We attracted loads of companies to Scotland with grants and bribes, Greenock was known as silicone glen, but they have all done the dirty and fucked off.  But it wasn't the EU that moved them out.

Quote:Scottish Power is owned by a Spanish company.

Pretty much our whole electrical infrastructure has been sold to foreign companies.  We now rely on those companies to invest in our infrastructure.  Our essential infrastructure is owned by foreign companies whose priority is making a profit and getting it out of the country.  It seems like we’ll be importing more and more electricity via the international super grid as we wait for foreign states to invest and provide us with new power stations.  It’s national economic suicide.  And it's how dumb we are.

You know workers in the power industry were told that the national power companies were inefficient (they were not) and the market required competition, so they got sold off.  It was called privatisation.  Yet most of our power industry in now owned by foreign states.  Yes our power industry is state owned again, just the wrong states that’s all.  And the monopolies are bigger than ever.

But at the end of the day many EU countries kept their state industuries.  That we have messed up big time has nothing to do with the EU.

Quote:Anyone who thinks the EU is good for British industry or any other business simply hasn't paid attention to what has been systematically asset-stripped from the UK.

But you see that’s my point.  We have not been asset stripped by the EU.  That’s nonsense.  We have been asset stripped by the Tory Government from 1979 onwards.  And of course Tony Blair was Margaret Thatcher’s greatest ever success, New Labour were the New Tories and they continued the privatisation, asset stripping, PPP and selling our essential infrastructure abroad, even getting our social services delivered by profit prioritising foreign companies.
It’s our own successive governments that have screwed us.  But we seem to be too stupid to see it, and hey it’s so much easier just to blame Johnny Foreigner and the EU.  People are rightly angry and pissed off, but they are being mugged again as opportunists like Boris and Nigel pull the wool over their eyes and get them to blame the EU. 

Quote:the risk to our security if control of our armed forces is passed to Brussels or Germany. Ohh dear Asset stripping - who gets the money- who lets it happen? Hmm yes YOUR ELECTED GOVT..stop confusing the two. Immigration yeah..Vote Leave...you will want to when the Gendarmes are helping ISIS onto the Dover Ferry

Yup Boris, Nigel and others push this nonsense and folks soak it up.  Our armed forces being passed to Brussels? – what can I say – bollocks.  And how is little Britain going to fight ISIS alone – yeah bollocks.  And don’t forget we were a big part of creating ISIS not the EU, the bulk of the EU had the sense to see GW Bush and Tony Blair for what they are.

Quote:Cor Blimey a massive rant which boils down to the UK needs to have effective domestic Government and Governance
Indeed.  And yes.  But do you really think leaving the EU will make one blind bit of difference in respect to your rant?  All it will mean is we will have pulled out of the biggest trading block in the world.  All the stuff you are complaining about will keep on happening meanwhile we’ll be begging a pissed off EU to give us access to their markets.  The pound will go down the tubes, our weak economy will be weakened further and our pensions will be up the swanny.  And do you think Boris and Nigel will give a fuck?  Naw they’ll be too busy doing what they always do, lining their own pockets and furthering their careers. 

Quote:The SNP have a solution pity the rUK isn't equally industrious and imaginative
Because the SNP are making something of an attempt to govern in the interests of the people, rather than as at Westminster in their own personal interests.  The EU isn’t a problem for Scotland, it’s the fucking shitty Westminster governments that are. 
So no I’m not buying all the BREXIT shit, leaving the EU won’t solve a darn thing, it’s only gonna give us a whole new set of problems.

So on the 23rd June we all need to vote REMAIN. 

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