These are just a few of my personal reasons for leaving the EU. I've tried to keep them short and to the point. There are others but I don't want to write an essay!
I believe that releasing Britain from the EU will help create a far stronger and outward looking economy. One that is free to trade both with the EU and outside of the EU.
With the EU in charge of doing our negotiating with the outside world is holding back our growth. When Britain joined the EU, it made up some 37% of global GDP. Today it’s more like 20%.
The EU is a huge entity, with many conflicting aims. It’s a political rugby match with all 28 teams on the pitch at the same time. As a result, EU trade talks with the rest of the world have almost come to a full stop
Alone, Britain could finalise trade deals the globe over. And these would allow us to set low import tariffs on things that aren't made in Britain, while setting higher tariffs on cheap competitor products. Setting import and export tariffs is hugely important to Britain’s economic interests. It should not be delegated to a team of bureaucrats pulling in all sorts of different directions.
The EU sells a lot more to us than we sell to them. In 2014 there was a trade deficit of over £50bn, with a current account deficit of nearly £100 billion. It seems unlikely that the EU would seek to disrupt a trade which is so beneficial to itself.
Norway and Switzerland are not in the EU, yet they export far more per capita to the EU than the UK does; this suggests that EU membership is not a prerequisite for a healthy trading relationship.
Nigel Farage believes Britain could strike an agreement with the EU that is similar to Norway’s – where they have access to the EU’s single market, but are not bound by EU agriculture, justice, or home affairs laws.
Leaving would allow the UK’s government and financial authorities to design a regulatory framework that is more suited to our needs.
Immigration. This is arguably the most charged issue in the referendum debate.
One of the EU’s founding principles is the free movement of people. Because of this, the UK has no control over immigration from other EU member states. Those who wish to leave the EU cite health and benefits tourism from other EU citizens – where people visit or migrate to the UK because of what they perceive as a more generous welfare system, or the NHS.
Many millions of tax paying ordinary working people and their families do not see there is any justice in people using our NHS without have to pay, especially as they have never contributed anything into the system. It is causing huge blockages in the system, closures of Accident and emergency (Chorley,Lancs Hospital last night reported on the news) Women coming over specifically to have their babies causing expectant mothers who already live and work here to give birth in overcrowded wards with overworked and exhausted staff.
When we travel abroad as UK citizens we take out medical insurance cover and an EEC card to cover the cost of treatment should we fall ill. Why cannot this apply to everyone coming into this country who does not have a job and is therefore unable to pay into the system?
The issue of how to regulate welfare for EU migrants was one of the main sticking points in Cameron’s recent negotiations with EU leaders. Recently, some pro-Brexit ministers have claimed the UK is at greater risk of a terror attack while part of the EU. Considering the vast numbers of refugees and immigrants coming into Europe, I should have thought this was inevitable. Our infrastructure, and all our Services are being overwhelmed.
We have very little say within the EU, and would have far more leverage outside EU as an independent sovereign nation and the world’s 5th largest economy. The UK currently has only 8.4% of voting power ‘say’ in the EU, and the Lisbon Treaty ensured the loss of Britain’s veto in many more policy areas.
Britain’s 73 MEPs are a minority within the 751 in the European Parliament.
British industries such as fishing, farming, postal services and manufacturing have already been devastated by Britain’s membership of the EU.
EU membership costs UK billions of pounds and large numbers of lost jobs thanks to unnecessary and excessive red tape, substantial membership and aid contributions, inflated consumer prices and other associated costs. The Common Fisheries Policy has cost British coastal communities 115,000 jobs.
Britain has a substantial ‘portfolio of power’ in its own right, which includes membership of the G20 and G8 Nations, a permanent seat on the UN Security Council (one of only 5 members) and seats on the International Monetary Fund Board of Governors and World Trade Organisation. The UK also lies at heart of the Commonwealth of 53 nations. Moreover, London is the financial capital of the world and Britain has the sixth largest economy. The UK is also in the top ten manufacturing nations in the world.
Released from the EU commitment to generate 20 per cent of power from “renewable” sources we could finally admit hilltop windmills are on a par with hamster power for meeting our energy needs and recover some of our beautiful green spaces from the Greens!!!
Rafts of law and public policy that nobody ever voted for just arrived. It was as if British governments had outsourced governing to a call center in Mumbai. Whether the EU Ministers were elected or not, this is NOT Democracy!
Stop the waste on the EU's control structures in Britain, particularly its 8,500 quangos costing £167 billion annually – the biggest single treasury expenditure.
Abolish the EU’s VAT, and its 120,000 regulations, returning freedom to business and people.
Abolish the secret family courts that snatch 4,500 attractive children annually from good families for forced adoption. (Frankfurt School social engineering)
Rebuild our armed forces, which the EU has been deliberately destroying.
Throw out our corrupt, EU appointed judges, bring justice back to our now rotten courts.
Review the Human Rights Bill.
