Irish presidency will do all it can to avoid a ‘Brexit’

Britain; Get OUT! ASAP Thank you!

David Cameron is nostalgic for the empire and believes that there may still be a shadow of its existance. I say Britain beware, the USA will love that because one day it will be easy to end up USA's colony.

A team is only strong if it is united and Britain better pull up its socks and work with and in the team for its benefit and the rest of the members.

Seems that there is a lot of anti British feelings so it would be better for us to leave, of course the utter junk that the eu, there is no such country, exports more to Norway and Switzerland is lacking in any truth whatsoever. The Irish would of course be far worse off without us in the eussr, because unlike them we are a net contributer, Germany the biggest contributer, and France equal second with us as a net contributer, but only since 2005, are unlikely to be able to make up the shortfall. And that is after the rebate that we are still the second highest net contributer. Of course if we leave we won't need the opt outs and rebates because we won't be held by the democratically deficient destructive legislation from Brussells and won't be paying in to it.

I wonder if Ireland will be able to match the uk's military capability, as they seem to want to build it up.

As for holding the presidency of all the eussr presidents it is the least influential, followed closely by rumpy and the president of the eussr parliament, the only one who has any power is the unelected political failure barosso.

Carole Harlow No the eussr has never been an a la carte project, it is very hard to get opt outs they don't come automatically, and when the majority voting takes place those against any particular bad law will have no opt out available, they will be told to accept something they don't want. That is what the constitutionally rejected constitution which was forced on to us as the lisbon treaty achieved. We opted out of Schengen, and yet we are forced to allow all and sundry in from the eussr former nations, because some unelected foreigner insists that we do as ordered, not as we would wish. Your ideation of what this, the most corrupt and democratically deficient body in the world does and is is very wrong.

People write about Britain's membership of the EU as if it was merely concerning governmental interests .
In the quoted 40 years since Britain joined the EEC , the hearts of the British people have never been won over , despite a 1975 referendum vote to stay in the EEC .
John Major was very unwise to have signed the Maastricht treaty against very strong parlarmentary opposition and huge public opposition . A referendum should have been held before signing Maastricht .
Britain should never have joined the EU beyond the EEC!

David Cameron is sitting on a tight-rope , with banking , financial services and some industries desparate for Britain to remain in the EU, not to rock the boat in difficult times . On the other side are the people of Britain a majority of whom want OUT of the EU altogether . If Cameron doesn't heed the peoples anti EU sentiment , the conservatives will be out at the next general election . There will be the prospect of a labour government , even at a pinch UKIP , or another coalition perhaps conservative/UKIP .

I would advise Ireland to stay out of the argument!
Britain and Ireland may be close neighbours , but there is really no love lost between the two . Ireland's meddling in British affairs could arouse hatred among British people . The conflict is not so much between the British Government and the EU Brussels , as between the British people and the EU .

The original EU consisted of 6 European mainland countries , that had all been overun by Germany or defeated during WWII . It was never intended to grow into the unwealdy monster it is today . If 6 adjoining countries whose customs and cultures were not too disimilar , that might well have worked .
The EU of today spreads over far too wide a range of cultures , customs and economies .
Britain has tried her hardest to be at the centre of the EU ; but the EU is the baby of Germany and France . Britain has tried to make suggestions for the better working of the EU , but is ignored .

If the Euro suvives , it will pull down the EU .
Rompy Pumpy may be right that Britain renegociating laws and terms , may create a disintegration of the EU , but that is because the EU has little real cohesion anyway .

Britain should leave the EU completely and have a simple agreement to continue trade as usual . EU countries would be the greater losers if trading was blocked or tariffs introduced , as the sell more to Britain than Britain within the EU .
I can understand that for Britain to have free trading partners close at had across the English channel was tempting .
Britain has always traded around the world ; British people see themselves as British , not European .
Britain should have formed an alliance with English speaking people around the world , rather than in an European Tower of Babel .

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Listen to James K Galbraith on the crisis of inequality in Europe .

Very interesting , and as near the truth as you are going to get .

Britain is right to be seeking an exit to the EU , which is on a slippery slope toward collapse from which it is unlikely ever to recover .

If the EU had competent leaders , who listened to sound advice , they could have taken drastic measures to halt the decline .
EU leaders cannot "See the wood for the trees" or "Beyond the end of their nose", inflexibility and incompetence are causing the downfall of the EU .

It would be better to Stop the EU now , break it apart and rethink it on different lines as a loosely knit commonwealth of nation states , fully in control of their national governments , economies , with their own separate currencies .

Years ago my mother 5'2" lamented to our family groom that she hadn't long enough legs for riding.
Our groom , a former jockey , replied ," Never mind Ma'm ,They put good scent in little bottles .