What benefits HAS the EU given us?
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After an underwhelming response to the benefits of the EU what benefits has it given us?
Ability to move around without a passport, cheaper mobile charges, whooopeey.
Ability to move around without a passport, cheaper mobile charges, whooopeey.
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Would you like to make a contribution? And your certainly living up to your username! !
1) Don't have time...off to...:o Europe today
2) you are confusing me with my evil alter ego who occasionally breaks through the space time continuum...glasshalfempty
Indeed Londons position as a financial center is also improved by being in a single market as again people can operate in London, but have access to a large market.
I don't think your point of being part of a group is that beneficial, we survived before!
Easier to employ people with advanced skills
Easier to go on holiday without faffing around with currencies
Better environmental legislation across the whole of Europe
Easier for British people to live abroad
Easier exports allowing international companies to manufacture in the UK and export to Europe
Deregulation of flights
Better passport control with separate lanes for EU citizens (same goes for customs)
No there would not be free trade since there would be tariffs imposed on goods imported into various countries.
We don't have the same currency now ! we employ all sorts of people from around the world already! People easily move around the world to live I.e Australia.
Your points are weak at best.
There are no wars between any two advanced economies around the world, mainly failed states.
We export from all over the world, we don't have a problem!
Watch this, and think how funny your original post was
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExWfh6sGyso
This has always been easy as skills that the country needs have always been welcome.
We still have to change pounds to euro, just like we do the dollar etc. Unless you want us to join the euro!
Nothing that could have been implemented in the UK if it was wanted by our people.
Only affects the very small number that wish to do so, and large numbers emigrate outside the EU anyway without much difficulty.
We export more to non-EU countries.
20 years after the USA did it.
We could easily have separate lanes for British citizens only when we leave EU.
Even if you think these are genuine reasons, nothing the EU does justifies over £55m per day in fees. We should leave with immediate effect.
Argentina
Iraq
Afghanistan
Iceland
Libya
ISIS
we managed to Stop Cameron killing people in Syria
Plus no EU country has been at war with another one.
As for the point about currency exchange, we only have to change into Euros, not drachma, lira, pesetas, francs, escudos, deutschmark, guilder etc
As the vast majority of people are only visiting one country when going to Europe what difference does it make if you are getting Euro/Lira/Francs etc?
Everything - if it wasn't for the EU we would have no trade with anyone, we would have no civil rights, no consumer protection, no environmental standards, no NHS, we would be permanently at war and plagues of locusts would roam the land..
Apparently......;-)
Over the years it makes a big difference.
Last year we went to Greece for our holiday, next month i'm going to Ireland, in May we are going to France and Italy.
Number of currencies required to visit those four countries? One.
Abnd when we come back from our holiday to France and Itely and euros left over can be kept for out next trip to a Eurozone country.
I am not suggesting we adopt the euro but do you really not see that as a benefit, even on the small scale of an individual?
Is it worth a £55m per day membership fee?
Iceland???:o
Must have missed that conflict.
Fortunately, though, when we leave the EU we will become a land of milk and honey where we can join the EEA for free, stop all immigration from the EU, and will have no obligation to implement new laws, that we have no say in how they are formed, passed by the EU.
Apparently......;-)
Cod Wars
it wasn't a "war" in the conventional meaning of the word.
It was cheaper to go on holiday before the euro, as you could potentially choose to go to wherever had the weakest currency. Greece's tourism industry would be booking big time right now if they had the drachma not the euro.
As for your list of countries, that is entirely irrelevant. It shows how tenuous it is when you have even included Iceland!
Are we at war with Spain then over Gibraltar's territorial waters?
What is the point of asking for a list if you are unable or unwilling to discuss the topic? You could take just one sub-section of one item on smudges dad's list (Air Pollution) and have a 30 page thread on the topic.