Here it is…reason two for why we should
slink away from Europe and hide under a rock, a BRITISH rock, craft-painted
with the union flag by a member of the WI:
EU Membership contributions costs
Britain £14.5 billion a year
Added to this, the cost of EU Regulations hinder 95% of UK businesses –
the top
100 EU Regulations cost the UK economy a staggering £33.3 billion a
year.
Less than 5% of UK businesses trade directly with the
EU, but have to adhere to all EU Directives.
As an added incentive following Brexit, Britain would be able to
sign its own trade deals with the rest of the world.
The main point ignores the fact that we got
€6.3b back in direct payments, straight away (€3.1b to farmers alone), with
many more millions coming after as 'hidden' payments, where would IDS and the
likes of the DWP and their private
contractors be without the European Social Fund paying for training? All those
courses in book-keeping, computing, remedial maths and English, food service,
Health and Safety, fire safety, first aid, basic catering and care-work, introductions
to marketing, telesales, using a chainsaw, a fork-lift &etc.
€1.1bn in research grants, road building,
subsidised youth programmes, cultural efforts, environmental and forestry
grants; all paid for by Europe, our money being redistributed to..err…us! Also
the Outie website has turned the € sign to a £ sign...increasing the apparent
'bill' substantially! Why haven't the advertising standards watchdogs corrected
that? The adjusted figure is less than that which you're stealing from the
benefits pot and pensions!
If the austerity-cuts and associated
behaviour of your government and the previous coalition are followed to their
logical (ideological?) conclusions, we have to assume that if we were out of
the EU, you wouldn't use that €14.5b (2013 figures - I believe), to replace the
lost support provided by it, you would see the hill-farmers starve, cut the
courses, tell business to find the money, give the police, armed-forces and
senior civil-servants a modest salary-rise, award yourselves another 10%
increase, spending the rest on tax-cuts for high-earners and subsidised
fracking!
The first sub-'clause' is probably the
funniest, 100% of all regulations hinder me, that's their point! If UK business
is avoiding 5% they're doing well! But then they say it's just the cost that
hinders? All a bit odd, if you ask me.
As the Outies haven't costed their second
claim, we'll ignore it for now, I will return to it when I've dug a little
deeper, but…really? A third of a trillion-squid? Per year? Why aren't you
countering this crap on the front page of the Times, Prime Minister?
The next bit is a fascinating example of
how to use statistics…it is said that approximately 50% of our trade - as a
country - is with the EU (the BRICs taking 7%), if that is only being done by
5% of businesses, we need only worry about what those 5% think? If the letter
sent to employees by BMW-Rolls Royce this week is anything to go by; staying in
the EU is the way to please that 5% and one has to wonder what (the Outies want
us to believe) the other 95% are complaining about.
The truth is most of them have no real
thoughts on the subject, beyond the vague little-Englander stuff they get from
the media - and your own stranger-danger, meddling Brussels, anti-migration,
'scrounger' rhetoric.
Some genuinely don't care - a cake shop in
the Midlands supplying a small market town with err…cakes, isn't going to be
remotely bothered by the EU, except in so far as EU regulations help ensure that
food hygiene and workers rights are kept to moderate levels.
And that's where we get to one of the big
truths behind the small-c, parochial, reactionaries who make-up the Outies,
they want to be free to throw out food hygiene regulation, they want to remove
safety equipment from building sites, they want to spray toxic crap on our
fields until there are no birds left, they want to frack (as do you) and…they
want to pay their workforce fuck-all for a 50, 60, 70 hour week, until (if the
headlines of the last 48 hours are to be believed) they drop-dead at their
desk/machine somewhere near their 78th birthday!
The staggering irony there - of course - is
that automation is going to render half the population unemployed over the next
25 years and none of you, from any party, are daring to address that elephant
in the room?
So to the last sub-clause of the Outies 2nd
main point for exiting the EU: that we will return to our 'glorious past' as an
independent, trading-nation, busily engaged in commerce with the rest of the
world:
- Those 5% of companies that do the 50% of the UK's trade - with Europe - would simply re-locate as much as they could TO Europe!
- The US is doing deals with Europe; it's not going to start faffing around separately dealing with a country in turmoil, its money-markets at rock-bottom while Scotland rightly demands a second referendum in the background?
- Canada and Australasia are lost - as major markets - to the US and Asia-Pacific, respectively.
- China has gone on record as saying "… that Britain is not a major global power..." and that "... the UK is not a big power in the eyes of the Chinese. It is just an old European country apt for travel and study."
- The rest of Asia and India want to sell us stuff, not buy it.
- Brazil's economy is struggling...and in the political sphere it sides with Argentina on other matters...
- South Africa is a mess, nearing bankruptcy, the rest of Africa...?
- Central America, the Middle East?
- That leaves...Russia...and North Korea!
Without Europe, we are nothing, and we only
joined when we realised that. The EEC, now the EU and eventually; the 'United
States of Europe' are only anthropological steps on the road to a world
government, as a single species of dumb monkey slowly comes together; working either
to escape to the stars from the mess it will leave behind, or to try and mend
the mess it's made, before it goes extinct.
Yours etc...
PS - In today's papers I see; you're letting them question your figures! Inadequate cockwombles the lot of you, Innies and Outies...more on that anon...
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