[Margaret Pilkington]

The big issues ....as well as the ones you have mentioned about trade( we don't do much now in the way of manufacturing do we?)There are the issues of unrestrained movement....immigration, not because the people who come here want to add to the prosperity, the economic pot of the country, but they know that we will hand out benefits to all and sundry.......because EU directives tell us we have to do this.
The EU is growing ever bigger....with the Eastern bloc countries and Turkey(please remind me....how long has Turkey been a European country, I was never very strong on geography) and all these people will want to come and dip their bread(paid for by us) into our gravy.

Another big, big issue for me, is that the people who make the laws in Brussels are not elected by us.......if we do not like what they do we can do absolutely nothing about it.

So we would no longer be in the EFTA(does this still exist today?) perhaps we could grow the kind of food that the people of this country want to buy and eat, without any meddling from the Eurocrats, telling farmers they must do this or they can't do that as it contravenes some stupid regulation which is protective of some other EU country's agricultural trade.
Maybe we could get our fishing rights back....not be throwing perfectly good fish(already dead) back into the water because again the EU says we can't catch that fish.

No-one has the cojones to sort out the financial problems that the single currency has brought, not just to Europe, but to the whole world. No-one is brave enough to tackle the beast that the EU has become.......mainly, I think because they(the politicians) all have a vested interest.......and while they sit and twiddle their thumbs we all go to hell in a hand cart

I'm no socialist, I'm no tory........I was an optimist, but I have, over the years been forced to become a realist.
I do not wish to be harnessed to the Beast of Europe. Give me my voice back!