The European Union is rubbish and nearly all Europeans agree. I consider myself British not European. I live on an island and am quite happy to do so. I remember butter mountains and beef mountains sanctioned by the EU in order to keep the prices high to the consumer. I also remember stupid edicts like we should have straight bananas...WTF?
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The Common Market as it used to be called is pants. It is run solely in the interests of the French farmers who make and enforce most of the decisions. The whole thing is a money pit fuelling mostly corrupt ministers who do little for their representative countries.
In the words of Blott (a character from 'Blott on the Landscape' by Tom Sharpe) - we as British should not be asking what we can do for the EU, we should be asking what the feck they do for us.
Will Britain ever adopt the Euro as its currency? If put to the vote I can almost guarantee not.
I admit we are a selfish nation. We used to rule half the world and there are some who still think we do. But we are a proud people. Proud of our heritage, proud of our island, and proud of our natural reserve. Do we want to be classed as European - I think not.
Would Americans sanction being goverened from another country? Would the people accept a ruling made in say, Argentina, that told them they had to support the production of corned beef to the tune of billions of dollars? I very much doubt it. They would be up in arms, and rightly so.
I am sure the EU has its uses, but I can think of none that make my life better.