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It's interesting, how someone who voted back in the seventies, has changed their view, as the Common Market/E.E.C./E.U. has changed by stealth into something totally different from it's original concept. Sadly I didn't get a vote back then. Being 10. :D |
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We had been travelling in Europe since I was 7 though (to Greece, Spain and France) and i remember there being a feeling of excitement at the thought of all these countries getting together and sharing their culture etc. - it was all new and different, as mass tourism was just getting underway and people were seeing how life was in other places. I think "Optimism" probably sums it up -through my eyes then, you understand. A whole new world on the doorstep to be discovered and shared. I suppose it was just the illusion of the "grass being greener" - at the end of the day, in all walks of life, there will always be those who are out to make a profit at the expense of everyone else... Mind you it would be shame to thwart Tony B's dream of becoming the first European President:rolleyes: |
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Back in those days it was not the political entity it is now....it was a number of countries who thought that banding together would encourage trade between those countries.
It was a multi-national market place.........it is no longer that.....Ted Heath gave away our fishing rights to get us in.......if I remember rightly General De Gaulle didn't actually want us in their neat little trading club....and to be honest, my feeling was 'well, if they don't want us, then I don't want to be in it'........I was also very sceptical about the benefits to the UK. |
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Although crazily not allowed a ballot paper at the time, being ten years old, I did lead the Vote No campaign as Head Boy, whilst at Moor End. http://freesmileyface.net/smiley/signs/no1.gif :rolleyes: What an economic trade alliance has been allowed to morph into today, issuing edicts about every aspect of our lives, outranking our own British government, is certainly NOT what people voted for. If we aren't given a say about what's happened, and our future destiny, it will be too late, and this once great country will be in grave danger of being changed for ever, and it certainly won't be for the better. 'If' the people decided we no longer wanted E.U. membership, then it's surely better to have twenty or so years to disentangle ourselves from it. Rather than an eternity of this ever worsening bureaucratic madness, of us being governed from Brussels. |
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Ya Rindi I heard you were a very forward thinking child in your younger years, wonder what happened:p:D
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In the great scheme of things, do you think the number of MEP's the UK has, can really influence the vast political beast that the EU has become????????
I don't think they can and I think it is down to the futility of the situation(coupled with a lack of will), that and the fact that making waves in Brussels would not endear them to the organisation....and before y ou tell me that they aren't there to be popular.......well, I guess I know that, but they don't want to be the most unpopular boy in the schoolyard. |
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Latest polls, regarding the U.K. and the E.U,
Second Poll Shows UK Wants Out of EU - Guy Fawkes' blog European Union Pollwatch - Opinion Polls. Leaving the EU is supported by a majority of British People |
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As I've said before I have recently changed my views on Europe, looks like quite a few more have too
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