UK runs a substantial trade deficit with EU. Up to 4 million jobs in the EU would be at risk if the EU initiated a trade war with the UK. Food prices are higher because we had to apply the Common External Tariff to products from countries we use to have trade agreements with. Incandescent bulbs have been replaced as a consequence of directive 2009/125/EC. The EU specified light bulbs produce a lesser quality of light and contain mercury, a poisonous neurotoxin. John Black (Royal College of Surgeons): To say the EU Working Time Regulations has failed spectacularly would be a massive understatement. The British contribution to the EU will rise dramatically from £30bn to £40bn over the next 5 years. (Office for Budget Responsibility) 70% of the EUs fish stocks are in UK waters. The Common Fisheries Policy opened up the UKs fish to all EU member states. The EU is an area of low GDP growth. In the eurozone there has been economic contraction. What is growing is unemployment in the EU. Non EU Andorra and San Marino have agreements with the EU that are more favourable than the UK as a country in the EU Political Union. Lord Denning: No longer is European law a tide flowing up the estuaries of England. It is now a tidal wave bringing down our sea walls.
Posted on: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 11:37:15 +0000
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