Is britain a ***** to brussles

Question

Brussels is a dictatorship should we opt out.

Answer 1

Yes we should get out of the political entity of the EU, but I am in favour of a "Common Market".

Answer 2

No the other way about.  

Answer 3

Go to Brussels and see for yourself. It is the most open political gravy train you could imagine. I have seen it for myself. Before I went I supported the EU, having been their I now believe it to be a black hole for  taxpayers money.

That said look at how many failed and ex-UK politicians go into EU organisations. Kinnock and Kinnock, Mandleson, need I go on?  

That being the case is it likely that we will reduce their power or finance. Not on your Nellie.

Answer 4

Of course we should opt out. The EU should go back to just a group of countries coming together for trade reasons, and should stop trying to be a new nation with each country just a state or EUland.

I personally do not want to be run by a group of un-elected, un-accountable, and immensly corrupt men in suits in Brussells.

God bless the Irish and their no vote.

Answer 5

As an elder of zion i protest at the protest that all who protest are morons . If  a situation was a massive benefit there would be little protest , As it is unbent cucumbers are a pain in the ar-e they don't fit in the fridge , French (English) fish do not taste the same , I like my weights in lbs (as my scales do not measure metric ). But most of all i object to sudo intellectuals trying to chastise others who have genuine concerns  

Answer 6

The very moment we get the vote we were promised.

Answer 7

Yes Mark G, I think your quite right when you say you are on your own with your thoughts on the EU, your way out on a limb with this one.  The EU is an very expensive pain, aimed at the detruction of our country, and if you can't see that, then I'm sorry for you and your family, as unless we fight against it, it will be our children who will ask 'WHY?' , why we let it happen, it's up to us, not our corrupt politicians, to raise our voices so they are heard, and make changes, the people must take back their 'rights'.

Answer 8

Mark G, you really need to wake up. The EU is more in control than most people know, and the constitution attempt was their first major slip up. Especially when they came up with the lisbon treaty which many experts agreed was basically the same as the constitution. I want to know what the ultimate aim of the EU, no one knows. It seems to be a 21st century attempt on communism, and we dont need it. Its not like in the old days when if you wanted to take over a country you would use tanks and troops. These days beauracracy is a far more devastating weapon.  

Answer 9

Yes.

Answer 10

Yes!

Answer 11

A little late I'm afraid the lisbon treaty has been signed sealed delivered which now means for us getting out is not so easy as you may consider.

but then i do not remember opting in.

Answer 12

It makes me laugh how many hysterical nuts there are on Yahoo!  Answers obsessed with the EU's supposed grip on British sovereignty.  Anybody who studies the situation knows that 1) EU authority, while extensive compared to other international bodies, is still not of major concern, and 2) is always, always reversible given Britain's constitution.

There is absolutely no way the EU can enforce membership (indeed, the Lisbon Treaty makes the mechanism for withdrawal explicit), and all extensions to the EU's powers require the unanimous vote of the Member States.  Hence the stalling of the EU Constitutional Treaty and the Lisbon Treaty.

In Britain, Parliament is sovereign, and treaties signed by the Government are not automatically law; they have to be incorporated into British law via legislation - hence the various EC/EU Acts which have been passed since the 1970s.  To withdraw all Britain would have to do is repeal the 1972 Accession Act.  It's that simple.

I am in no way pro-European, (I consider myself moderately sceptic), but the frankly ridiculous amount of utter drivel written against the EU drives people like myself into the pro-European camp out of spite.  There is no such thing as a sensible debate on Europe in Britain, and until such idiotic questions as that which the asker has presented are greatly culled we'll get nowhere to sorting out a united front against any imaginary attempt by a spectral European superstate to take over Britain.

I don't expect my answer will be accepted by many here, but frankly I don't care.  I don't expect any sensible answers to this question and most of the arch-Europhobes are rabid, spittle-flecked, wide-eyed conspiracy theorists with as much credibility as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

Thankyou and goodnight.