[FONT=&]Sorry Andy did not mean to shout cutting and pasting changing fonts etc, but as I see it I ask myself one question, if we were not already in the EU and we were being given this chance to become a member would I vote to join the EU now.
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[FONT=&] Economically the EU is not strong at the moment it’s struggling with a very low growth rate, Greece, Italy and Spain have major economic issues too.
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[FONT=&] The single market is it all that it seems, restricting our ability to negotiate our own trade deals, with 28 countries to negotiate for it takes forever, I believe the EU trade deal with Canada is almost finished it has taken 9 years!!
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[FONT=&]Britain is also pushing for a Latin American trade deal but other EU countries are blocking the deal to protect their own markets ie France not wanting Brazilian beef to be imported, it is said to be costing Britain £2.5 billion a year in lost revenue.
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[FONT=&]We also have the migrant issue and half of sub Saharan Africa claiming to be refugees coming to EU because of Merkels naive invite, not to mention Turkey who are literally blackmailing Merkel and will almost certainly be fast tracked into the EU but that’s another story.
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[FONT=&] A recent EU report said Britain not building enough houses quickly enough, the European Commission warned the UK is heading for an ‘acute’ housing crisis caused by massive population growth. It admitted that first-time buyers were being hit particularly hard and the situation could worsen, with official projections saying the UK needs at least 220,000 new houses a year.
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[FONT=&]The issue of sovereignty and the power that would be disappearing from our parliament
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[FONT=&] On April 1[SUP]st[/SUP] 2017, 44 areas of policy will disappear from government control courtesy of the Lisbon treaty, the EU is a slow motion [/FONT]coup d'tat of our parliament, [FONT=&] plus the fact that the EU is so undemocratic , Junker has already stated the EUs intention to expand east as far as the Russian border and if the public do not like it tough we will do it anyway.
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[FONT=&]I know these reasons are not half the story and there is no perfect solution, but I feel being out would at least give us the right to decide our own destiny and return real democracy to our shores. [/FONT]