Apart from standardising the curvature of cucumbers how has being a member of the EU benefited Britain?

Question

Apart from standardising the curvature of cucumbers how has being a member of the EU benefited Britain?

Answer 1

It hasn't. The EU is nothing more than an undemocratic gravy train.

The (b)eurocrats portray all anti-EU sentiment as xenophobia which is a convenient way of ending the debate on the matter. If they are open to debate then why haven't we had a referendum since 1975? The EU isn't the EEC (Common Market) any more - it has significantly changed in nature. Such constitutional changes, that greatly affect the way our country is governed, requires the consent of the people for legitimacy.

And if the EU is of such importance to Britain's health, then why aren't Norway and Switzerland (non-members) suffering? In fact Norway has the highest standard of living in the world (according to the HDI), and Switzerland has the ninth (the UK has the eighteenth btw).

Benefits such as "standardisation" and agreements on climate change don't require an all-encompassing bureaucracy.

Of course, the reason there hasn't been a referendum in over thirty years is that the government would lose. So much for our "democracy".

Answer 2

You mean you haven't enjoyed the sausage more since it became the 'high fat emulsified offal tube'?

Answer 3

Yeah you can make your jokes but the Cucumber Conspiracy will be the downfall of all of Europe - you watch buddy, you watch!

Answer 4

It has avoided another war between the member countries !

Answer 5

From a private person/consumers point of view it has; allowed you to buy a cheaper car in another EU country and made it illegal for the manufacturers to stop you. It has made making international calls from your mobile phone cheaper; it allows you to get "NHS" treatment when abroad on holiday in other EU countries, it has allowed you to bring back transit van fulls of booze and f**s from France and Spain, it has introduced pan european timeshare laws to help prevent people being scammed by international cross border criminals while on holiday, it has made it easier for you to travel to and work in the other EU countries, it has combatted price fixing from the price of CD's to airline tickets, it has contributed millions and millions of pounds towards the redevelopment of deprived areas.

It has also made it easier for business to trade in other countries therefore improving profitability and employment prosepects

Answer 6

Well they debated whether Cadbury's was allowed to be called chocolate, discussed who had the right to use Yogurt as a word to describe Yogurt.

Promised to give Millions of Euro's as aid (almost as much as they have lost to fraud)

So they make even Westminster look 'good'

Anyway Britain no longer exists.

Thanks to 'devaluation' by devolution we are now smaller than the sum of our separate parts!

Answer 7

dunno

Answer 8

Well - it has forced us to implement better laws in Employment, Discrimination, Police procedure - these all benefit the individual but I guess they are disadvantages to the government, employers, racists etc... Depends who you are really!!  You may rightly laugh at some food laws but the UK has the highest rates of salmonella, TB, BSE etc within the EU and if the tighter laws force the authorities to reduce the risks of such diseases that are passed from food to humans it may not be a benefit to food producers but it's certainly a benefit to me!

Answer 9

You can now go to Paris and taunt the French without need of a passport!  That's about it.