Mind made up on exit
IHAVE listened carefully over the last few weeks to all the arguments about the EU Referendum in all media and am now clear.
I want my country back. I was an adult when we voted to join the Common Market, simply so that we could trade freely.
We were a proud country then and had control of all aspects of British life through an elected government that we could vote out. I realise that many of those who will vote on June 23 have never known anything different from the EU so may be uneasy about leaving.
But the EU has become a different and, I believe, a sinister organisation.
Britain stood alone during two World Wars and defeated its enemies in Europe. Now those former enemies are stealing our culture, not by war but by stealth. A leaked report of a scheme by the EU to establish an EU Army incorporating British service men and women – our Army, our Navy and our Air Force – was meant to be kept secret until after the referendum.
Our British citizens who fought and died for their country would turn in their graves if we let this happen and rightly so.
Shame on us if we allow this to happen.
Our economy is good; in fact we are the fifth biggest economy in the world. That’s why everyone wants to come here and I don’t blame them. The problem is not race but space – there’s no more room. Our public services, which we pay for through taxes and NI, are swamped. Waiting times in the NHS are through the roof. The criminal population, which we pay for in the same way, is increasingly non-British and we can’t send them home because the EU Court Of Human Rights say so – even if they’ve taken a life! Have we become the European dumping ground for criminals by stealth?
We, the British, are not feeling the benefit of our economic growth because it is diluted by the uncontrolled increase in our population. The idea put forward by the Remain camp that we can send home those economic migrants who don’t find work in six months is a sham. In law, as long as they can show that they are seeking work, they can stay. The EU says so, and the Home Office says it hasn’t got the capacity to do it even if it could!
We are Europeans; we always have been part of that continent and we protected them in wartime. We will always trade with them. After all, we buy far more of their goods than they do of ours – less than a third of our trade is with the EU.
Lawyers For Britain, an authoritative group of eminent legal experts, say that trade would continue without any renegotiation on June 24 even if we leave the EU.
The EU is something different from Europe as a continent; it is becoming a Federal State; an unwieldy, autocratic organisation run by unelected bureaucrats that do not have our interests at heart. No other region on earth has tried to copy the EU model – the USA would laugh at the thought. They want us to stay to make trading easier for them! Financial experts are forecasting doom and gloom but did they forecast the last recession? No! They urged us to join the Euro – what a disaster that would have been! Greece is bankrupt and Italy and Spain are on well on their way there with youth unemployment around 50%. These were formerly great nations of the world and it’s sad.
Do we want to hang around to bail them out or, worse, meet the same demise? I think not. The EU is failing fast. It is one of the worst performing economic regions in the world and, I believe, if we leave others will too. They are watching us.
I believe that the only countries that will stay are the weak, the bankrupt and the poor who need bailing out.
Out of 195 countries in the world, 167 of them manage without the EU. If we leave we will have the shackles removed from our capacity to trade all over the world which, of course, includes the Commonwealth, our natural ally. The celebrations for the Queen’s 90th birthday reminded me, an unapologetic monarchist, of our country’s great heritage and culture which will soon disappear.
For me the choice is simple – we either become a free, independent democracy once more, in charge of our own borders, justice, taxes, welfare and laws or we become just a province in a European federation.
Leaving is not a leap into the unknown but a return to the self-governing status that we had (for almost one thousand years) before being sucked into the destructive embrace of the Brussels regime in 1973 (Leo McKinstry, political journalist).
This is a once in a lifetime vote – please use it well.
Who should run Britain?
Britain? Or 27 other countries?