The EU has changed out of all recognition since 1972.This is the main case for Brexit. The Single Market has become a vast empire for law making on EU regulations, through the Court of Justice on areas such as human rights, asylum, child rights, deportation and so on. What we need is access to the single market but not to be in the EU.
The Single Market has not been a good vehicle for the UK. It was created in 1992 and since then UK exports have significantly slowed down. In comparison the non EU members of the OECD have seen much higher growth in exports. EU legislation is a drag on our economic growth. Countries outside the Single Market have seen exports in both goods and services increase faster than the UK. UK companies pay £600 million a week in money towards regulations. Regulations stifle economic growth. Membership embroils us in regulations. The Single Market is used to prop up the euro.
Immigration can be a positive force enabling talented people to contribute to our economic growth. But we have no control over our immigration and that is not good. Politicians say they can cut immigration but this is legally impossible. A city the size of Newcastle is added each year with huge unfunded pressures on our public services and it is perfectly reasonable for people to worry about the impact on school places, doctors surgeries, hospital treatment, roads and so on. This is not racism. This is not prejudice. The Government are doing and saying nothing to allay our rational fears. The politicians cannot promise reduced immigration because they have no control. To lack control over this area is so corrosive and damaging and we need to take back control.
The Single Market agenda has been kidnapped by a plan to make an ever closer federal union through the Court of Justice to adjudicate on many areas of life. And it will go ahead with a series of measures to embroil us in a fiscal union to prop up the euro.
The EU is not an efficient form of Government. Johnny Diamond reported today that 6% of the budget goes on administration; the running costs of the EU. It costs 1.5% of the budget in contrast to run the UK Parliament. The EU Parliament commutes between Strasbourg and Brussels each month because the French want to retain a base in their country! What madness. Documents have to be translated into 24 languages. Madness! £500 million was spent on ‘ghost’ airports and £900,000 on a rural heritage centre for Wales, which failed. Pointless mountain lifts have been installed. There are countless other examples of EU waste.
VOTE LEAVE on June 23rd. Take back control.
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