Trade Figures

[j.sabourn]

The Headlines in this weeks International Express, a subsidary of the Daily Express reads " Proof we dont need to be in the EU" if this is a copy of headlines in the UK paper, and if halfway true I can quite see the distrust with politicians in general. As it was them that took the UK into it, and came up with all the stories about having to be in for to survive trade wise. According to this paper most of the trade with Britain is outside the European trade limits. All the UKs might of years ago was let go as regards shipbuilding, Coalmining, The M.N. The sovereignity of the country is almost ready to go to Brussels, and believe the pollies will still not give a vote to the people whether they want to stay in. This is what they call Democracy.?? I still do not understand it. They are little Hitlers in their own right. For them to critize other countrys and have the bare faced effrontery to go to war with them on some pretext about protecting other peoples rights, they should be putting their own house in order first and let other countrys make their own mistakes, they have plenty of mistakes of their own to repair. As I said if the general public are reading such info. as put out, there must come a time when it suddenly strikes the unbelievers they are being taken for a ride. Cheers John Sabourn.

[Captain Kong]

That is very true John.
Britain put all its eggs in one basket when we were taken into the EU.
Now the EU is broke they cannot buy anything, we now have lost all our overseas markets.
We lost all our customers and now we will have to grovel to try to get them back.
Brian

[John Pruden]

i would love to see just one country go against the grain and say we are gone from this fiasco and lets see what happens? we were great as an island ruling ourselves and sorting our own problems out now we have the problems of half of Europe dumped on our doorstep have a clear out and stand up for ourselves we may as well pull parliament down they have no power at all here say in the future there is conflict between a european country and the USA who would we stand by? just my opinion but we were conned into joining and been ruled by them ever since put it to the people like we were promised by all parties in the past?jp

[alf corbyn]

i have always said we shouldn't have joined. as brian has said, we screwed all our good customers.ie. aussie,NZ and a few other colonials, plus others like argentina etc.i would think quite a lot of hardship when we suddenly stopped importing so much meat from these countries, forcing them to find new markets. i say get out now. we don't need thier problems

[John Arton]

The refererindum (cant spell) of 74? asked us if we wanted to join THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY. This would give ease of shifting goods between the various countries etc.
The politicians of the day hood winked us as they never told us the full story of what we were voting for so like lambs to slaughter we voted the way they wanted.
We now find ourselves in the European Union and ruled from Brussels. I and most of the rest of the population never voted for this, so I reckon wwe should all get up in arms, pull out and look after ourselves first and foremost whilst at the same time resurrecting our ties with our good commonwealth friends
rgds
JA

[Red Lead Ted]

The country joined the Common Market in 1974 not the E.U. There is a big difference. Certain polotitions wanted us to join the Euro Zone. Thank heaven,s we didn,t. Just a quick point anyone take a look in your stores right now refridgerator or otherwise and tell me one thing that was produced in Greece, And purchased in this country i wont go globe trotting i dont have to i could name you 5 member,s of the E.U. That should never be amongst the Euro Zone. Which dont forget we have the £ here not the euro. World trade was never restricted when we entered the Common Market or was it ??????????? Bewilderd Regards Terry.

[John Arton]

Red Lead Ted
Sorry I was getting a bit mixed up with my Europeans, of course it was the COMMON MARKET we joined and got shafted with.
The Norwegians, bless their souls, voted in the 90's to join the European Economic Community so as the would not be subject to cabotage for there shipping fleet. Gave them a lot of the advantages of the EU without any of the disadvantages.
I always said that the Euro would fail. I cannot see how you can have a single bank setting a uniform interest rate for such widely different economies as say Germany and Greece. Thank god we never got into it, despite having to send our gold to Franfurt when Brown sold it off at a ridiculous price to fund his EU like spending spree.
rgds
JA

[Captain Kong]

I never got a Vote to join anything, I was at sea when it happened So no one can blame me for the fiasco of eUROPE, I hate it, never ever go there for a holiday, cannot stand eUROPEANS. Will not buy any eUROPEAN goods, or French, Italian, Spanish, German etc. wine , Always buy South African and Australian Wines.
The world Map on the wall in my Office has the whole of eUROPE cut out and replaced by sea, with an island at Gibralter. Looks quite nice.
Brian.

[Jim Brady]

Get out now and close the borders and refuse Europeans work visas.Two countries joining shortly Croatia and Montenegro what have they got to offer!!!We will have another 50.000 or so heading this way.Montenegro mafia government running millions of cigarettes across the Adriatic to Italy in fast boats to prop up the economy. All that these Eastern Europeans know is crime and the fact that this stupid Theresa May is cutting back on police numbers these crooks must be laughing their heads off.The other dope Ken Clarke wants to keep the prison population down because it costs so much to keep them in gaol, they are caught and given 20 hours community service what a soft touch this place is,we are the laughing stock of Europe.They caught a Latvian here in Liverpool,big organised crime,he was given bail,whats the chances of seeing him again.
Regards.
Jim.B.

[vic mcclymont]

We should do what Spain is now implementing and apparently legal and within EU Rules.
If you emigrate to Spain from now you must prove that, a) you have a job. b) if not the means to support yourself for the foreseeable future. c) you will not receive any Spanish state benefits.
Apparently under rule 7 of the EU, states can do what Spain is doing without any repercussions.
Its time for our leaders to get off their *rses and do whats best for this country