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Do you want to be in Europe??

4 replies

MrsCrafty · 06/05/2010 00:49

Seriously.

Greece needs 45 billion pounds to sort it self out. It's not the only country that will go down on the double dip.

We visited Greece twice a year. The year that we stopped visiting was the year they introduced the Euro.

Everything went up. A coffee went up from 60p to about £2.50. They put all of their prices up.

Now and I promise you that this aint the first one to go, by being in the EU, we may have to bail out several countries.

Think about your vote tomorrow. Nick Clegg is a passionate M 'E' P. Our taxes will have to raise anyway to sort out the situation in the UK but to bail out most of the lesser countries in Europe.

If you are happy doing this.............

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scaryteacher · 06/05/2010 07:41

Agree with Longfingernails; prices in Brussels are high for food and clothing, the UK is so much cheaper.

The EU is wasteful and bureaucratic, and I have seen it up close and personal for the last 3 years.

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snowlady · 06/05/2010 07:41

If you don't want to be in Europe vote UKIP not tory as the tories are the ones who took us into Europe in the first place.

Clegg is not suggesting we go into the Euro now. This is tory propaganda. He is the only one of the three leaders who has said he will have a referendum on europe.

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Chil1234 · 06/05/2010 07:36

We're part of Europe. The EU is about more than the price of a cup of coffee in Athens. It's about creating a body of strongnations with good trade prospects and prosperity .... and if Britain isn't in the middle of that and influencing the direction, we'd be stupid. Look East for a second and there's China... manufacturing like crazy and protecting its interests. Look West and America is doing the same thing, rigging tariffs to keep out imported goods. On our own we would be a very small voice and we'd lose out. Greece is testing the union at the moment and, yes, there will be others. But to think we'd be better off flying solo is naive.

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longfingernailspaintedblue · 06/05/2010 00:54

We should be in the EU but not run by the EU. The EU needs to be made less powerful, more accountable, less bureaucratic, less federalist, and more democratic.

The Lib Dems wanting to go into the Euro was crazy in 2005, and it is crazy now. Clegg is an idiot for even suggesting it, given what is going on in the Eurozone.

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