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Originally Posted by Eric
I always thought that the Common Market was a good idea ... maybe more than that, an inevitability, like NAFTA ... but a United States of Europe, I don't be thinking so. I just can't see what is in it for the UK  But if the Lisbon Treaty has been ratified by, what is it, twenty seven different govts., there must be some perceived benefit. Maybe I'm just too dense to see it. Many Canadians felt that the Federal Govt. (Progressive Conservatives at the time at the time of NAFTA) was headed towards something more than a trade agreement with the US, and the voters punished the PCs in a general election ... the tories were reduced from a majority in parliament to a rump of, I think, four members ... the party was effectively destroyed ... if this little bit of Canadian political history has any point, it is that democracy can work in dramatic ways. |
In 1975, when the majority of the electorate voted to continue our membership, they did so because it was at that time a trade and economic union. Not what by stealth, it has become now, a body that ultimately decides on the laws we are governed by.
Turkey, with the vast part of it in Asia, will become a member within the next ten years.
Not to worry.
We'll probably be bankrupt before then, so won't have to send Child Support Benefit to any of the 71 million Turks who will be eligible to work here, and claiming for offspring back in Turkey.