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If there was an 'In/Out' referendum on Europe, how would you vote?

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CogitoErgoSometimes · 21/10/2011 07:20

I've always been a pro-European and think that leaving the EU would present more problems than it would solve. But recent events have thrown up some fundamental questions that make me less confident in that opinion. Which way would you vote if a referendum was held and why?

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scaryteacher · 21/10/2011 10:42

I would vote out, but would want either to to remain in EFTA and EEA, or forge better trade links with the Commonwealth and English speaking nations.

I see the waste and expensive pointless vanity projects living near Brussels. I am also aware of the futile move of the parliament to Strasbourg once a month (a city like Brussels that exists on the back of EU expenses), just to keep the French happy.

I have also seen the motorway in Spain built exits that go nowhere (just in case there's ever a town at the end of one of the exits) with EU money, and the motorway in Bulgaria that went nowhere, again built with EU money. It is a wasteful, opaque, and overly bureaucratic organisation that does nothing to improve ordinary lives, but meddles because it can, and because it's fonctionnaires need to justify their existence somehow.

EdithWeston · 21/10/2011 07:53

I have generally been anti, and would vote "out", especially as recent events have highlighted the dysfunctions.

I would however seek to remain in EFTA and EEA - which provide a model much closer to the "Common Market" (which was how EEC was presented to the public at the time of the last referendum).

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