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What makes a state? British practical concerns Democracy the Euro Money Fishing Immigration Law Borders Bureaucracy Trade Corruption Venality Waste Defence EU expansion Germany Conclusion To return to this menu at any time, click the map top right

Why BREXIT? What makes a “state”? freedom of movement =
no border controls = fiscal union = harmonised tax system = harmonised legal system defence = common language & culture = no border controls (Schengen) mass migration from poorer to richer areas a harmonised tax system vast transfers of money to poorer regions European armed forces ?????

“One size does not fit all.” “Rome was not built in a day.”
Why BREXIT? BUT “One size does not fit all.” “Rome was not built in a day.” AND “You can’t HAVE your cake AND eat it.” (You can’t remain in the EU and STILL be a sovereign, independent state.)

... revolution or evolution?
Why BREXIT? Discussion Point ... revolution or evolution? It took many thousands of years for Europe to get where it is today. What led the Eurozealots to think it could possibly be transformed into a unified state within just a few decades?

Why BREXIT? However, there were also PRACTICAL issues which carried the day: sovereignty, democracy & accountability money trade employment fishing border control & immigration laws waste corruption defence

The British Viewpoint 1) Democracy
• EU Parliament rubber-stamps decisions by unelected officials • aim of Continental political elite is to create a federal state in Europe, hence the acquisition of ever-more power to Brussels • NOT ONE SINGLE EUROPEAN CITIZEN HAS EVER VOTED FOR THIS POLICY • the people have little say (until BREXIT): the European elite HATES democratic decisions taken by the people (as happens in Switzerland) - in 2006, the French people voted AGAINST The European Constitution (STATES have constitutions: the title was intended to send a message), but the French parliament PASSED this bill after making a few minor changes: the French elite did the OPPOSITE of what its people had voted for • Ireland and Holland voted AGAINST the Lisbon Treaty but had to vote AGAIN to get “the right decision” in April 2016 the Dutch people voted in a referendum against closer links with Ukraine – however, Dutch government and EU ratified an agreement with Ukraine anyway

the stupefying arrogance of Brusselocrats
The British Viewpoint the stupefying arrogance of Brusselocrats

The British Viewpoint Comment: Mr Schulz doesn’t really trust the plebs, does he?

The British Viewpoint

- once again, the ends justified the means -
The British Viewpoint The Greek Scandal in October 2011 – to try to solve the debt crisis - Greek PM Papandreou proposed offering his people a referendum on membership of the euro within weeks he was forced out of office and replaced by Lucas Papademos, a former ECB & Goldman-Sachs employee Papademos had been Governor of Bank of Greece before entry to euro he was then reponsible for preparing Greece’s entry to euroland he KNEW at that time that Greece did not qualifiy for entry his former employer GS was engaged to help massage Greek financial statistics to pretend that Greece met the criteria – EVERYONE KNEW THIS Greece‘s entry to the euro was based on fraud, lies and self-delusion - - once again, the ends justified the means -

The British Viewpoint British Prime Minister Ted Heath in 1973! We have been consistently LIED to from the BEGINNING.

The British Viewpoint Peter Mandelson is a former EU Trade Commissioner “EU MONEY” Sorry, Mr Mandelscum - we do not WANT a “post-democratic society.”

The British Viewpoint 2) The Euro • EU obsessed with creating a federal European state, of which common currency is KEY feature • euro specifically designed to accelerate federalisation of Europe; never been successful common currency without full fiscal union - this NOT politically feasible when euro launched • criteria set for entry to euro, but ignored in the case of Greece • WORSE than that, Goldman-Sachs was engaged to massage Greek financial statistics to create illusion that they qualified - Greece entered euroland despite being totally unsuitable for it

The British Viewpoint 2) The Euro • economists TOLD the EU that the euro could not work with uncompetitive countries such as Greece in it facing economic might of Northern Europe especially Germany • THEY DID NOT CARE - incredibly, they KNEW it could not work but planned for inevitable crisis to force MORE harmonisation onto Europe, especially in finance (central and unified control of the money is a KEY element of statehood) • EU elite LIED about Greece because for them, MORE is always BETTER: more countries, more money, more laws, more control: they desperately want to be like USA • they think they have good reasons for this, but NOBODY HAS EVER VOTED FOR IT

The British Viewpoint The Euro Effect
most of Southern Europe has been economically stagnant for a decade youth unemployment in most of these countries has been over 20% for years Greece is hopelessly swamped in debt it can NEVER repay the GDP if ITALY is NO BIGGER today than 16 years ago on eurolaunch: its industry is a shadow of what it was then even FRANCE is mired in debt (and tax, state interference and bureaucracy) Germany has massively benefitted from the euro this situation has led not to harmony but to massive divisions within Europe resentment is especially great towards Germany, not least since Frau Merkel launched her immigration policy without consulting European partners

the irresistible force meets the immovable object
Is The Euro Doomed? the irresistible force meets the immovable object EU nations are sinking ever further into debt living standards in Italy and Greece are below their pre-euro levels Finland is the only Nordic country using the euro and the only Nordic country which has not yet recovered from the financial crash of 2008 there are angry protests and calls for reform, but EU continues to push for fiscal union there are only two ways to fix the euro: - far-reaching political union; economic decision-making would be concentrated and require major structural changes in Eurozone and member countries - this would mean MASSIVE TRANFERS of money from rich to poor countries OR returning to the system described in the Maastricht Treaty, where member states would be totally responsible for their own economies only The German people will never accept 1 Brussels will not willingly accept solution 2

The British Viewpoint 3) Money UK pays over THIRTY MILLION EUROS NET to Brussels EVERY SINGLE DAY of year this is effectively FOREIGN AID to other EU countries there is no such thing as “EU MONEY” paid to British regions such as Cornwall; whatever money the UK gets back from Brussels is ONLY money the EU has previously received from the UK; IT IS ALL OUR MONEY any “REBATE” granted to the UK is not some kind of GIFT from the EU to the UK, but ONLY a reduction in the NET sum that British taxpayers pay this has been going on for over 40 years

The British Viewpoint 4) Fishing • on joining the EU the UK GAVE UP 66% of its national fishing rights - before we joined we owned 80% of the fish in EU waters; now we can land only some 25% of the permitted EU catch tens of thousands of jobs in the traditional British fishing industry were lost: fishing- ports all around the British coast were devastated • most of the fish caught in British fishing waters is caught by foreign boats • the UK is now a net IMPORTER of fish, which it never was before the EU we have no control over the conservation of fish stocks in our own waters

The British Viewpoint 5) “Freedom of Movement”, Immigration and Population Density • England (especially the South) is one of the most densely-populated countries in Europe. • were FRANCE to have the SAME population density as England then the former would have to take in ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-MILLION migrants “freedom of movement” means that citizens of ANY country in the EU have an automatic right to come to the UK, where they immediately qualify for social benefits: including housing, medical care and schooling one example: 200,000 Roma gypsies have come to the UK from Roumania British schools, housing, roads and medical services are overloaded this is why many Brits say: “We are full.”

The British Viewpoint figures shown are for ENGLAND as a whole, but the SOUTH-EAST of England is MUCH more densely-populated

The British Viewpoint 6) Border Controls • EU states have no control over who enters their countries from other EU countries • KNOWN murderers and rapists from other EU countries have free access to UK • MILLIONS have migrated to UK to take advantage of its benefits: free food, housing, education and medical care - for example, 200,000 Roma gypsies migrated from Rumania to Britain; few work – but ALL have to be fed, housed, schooled and medically treated resulting pressure on British infrastructure has been devastating

The British Viewpoint 7) Employment workers from poor EU countries are obviously willing to work for less money than indigenous British workers, since the currency in their own countries is worth so much less than the GBP this clearly holds down wages for ALL workers AND reduces the number of jobs available to indigenous British workers foreign workers (from Eastern Europe in particular) sent money home to build veryhouses, which native Brits struggle to get affordable housing all this leads to resentment of foreigners

The British Viewpoint 8) Law - up to 80% of new laws now made in Brussels - UK has no right to block EU laws even if they are clearly not in its interest - n° of EU laws has risen from 1,947 in 1973 to more than 25,000 today; only a handful of these were even discussed in the UK Parliament - the UK Parliament has no power to change EU laws The collective EU treaties decree that once Brussels has acquired a power from the nation states, that power is never given back (the 'acquis communautaire) – like a black hole, what goes in NEVER comes out.

Obama came to Britain to campaign for “REMAIN”.
The British Viewpoint “ffff” Obama came to Britain to campaign for “REMAIN”.

Obama came to Britain to campaign for “REMAIN”.
The British Viewpoint Obama came to Britain to campaign for “REMAIN”.

The British Viewpoint 9) Bureaucracy EU bureaucracy modelled on France, notoriously regulation and paperwork obsessed French Employment Law runs to 3,600 pages: the Swiss has SIXTY pages unnecessary regulation imposes a massive cost on UK business, a cost not faced by non-EU nations ALL businesses in the UK have to conform to EU regulations, even if they do not trade with the EU

The British Viewpoint EU REGULATIONS ON THE SALE OF CABBAGES 26,911 WORDS!

The British Viewpoint 10) Trade, including Food the UK cannot make independent and more economical trade deals with rest of world free trade on food is also impossible inside the EU, which heavily subsidizes EU farmers and makes food more expensive system is wasteful and discriminates against producers from poor countries the Common Agricultural Policy is inefficient and open to abuse: for example, rich landowners are often paid money NOT to grow anything The CAP costs British taxpayers around £6 billion p.a. and every person in the UK some £250 p.a. in extra food costs

The British Viewpoint 10) Trade, including Food there are 87 'qualified majority' votes among the 15 member states 62 votes are required to pass a law and 26 to block one the UK has 10 votes we often cannot muster the extra 16 votes to form a blocking minority because our 'partners' do not share our international trading perspective two current examples of damaged UK commercial interests are our very valuable international art market (thanks to increased VAT and a levy on the re-sale of art) and our mergers and acquisitions industry, thanks to the Takeover Directive

Economic Freedom

The British Viewpoint 11) Corruption
“What can be abused, will be abused.” The EU hierarchy is a natural home for failed national politicians: once rejected by their own people they can usually find a FAR more highly-paid “job” in Brussels (cronyism – the elite looks after its own). Nepotism and cronyism are ripe in Brussels; members of the privileged elite look after each other and their families. The EU's £5 billion annual foreign aid budget is corrupt and misdirected. We could spend our £875 million contribution much more effectively on our own.

The British Viewpoint 11) Corruption EU accounts have never been signed off as accurate and correct by auditors generally agreed that at least 10% of the EU's £60 billion annual budget goes in fraud and mismanagement (probably more) when Marta Andreason took the job of the EC’s Chief Accounting Officer in she was a devout supporter of the EU’s goals. She still is. But when she refused to sign off the EC accounts she was abused, suspended and eventually sacked. Her refusal was amply justified: those accounts were produced from single-entry spreadsheets, irreconcilable with any other accounting records prior-year comparatives differed from the actual figures by hundreds of millions of euros, which simply disappeared from both sides of the balance sheet

The British Viewpoint 11) Corruption multi-million euro grants for “projects” were paid in advance and booked as “expenses” without sight of any supporting documents the bank-linked computer system was accessible to unauthorised users free to intercept and amend payment orders without trace extent of corruption in Europe is "breathtaking" and costs the EU economy at least 120bn euros (£99bn) annually says European Commission EU Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmstroem said the true cost of corruption was "probably much higher" than 120bn three-quarters of Europeans surveyed for the Commission study said that corruption was widespread, and more than half said the level had increased

The British Viewpoint 11) Corruption
Back in 2002 Marta Andreasen, the chief accountant to the EU had this to say: “EU spending is riddled with corruption. Opportunities for fraud are open and are taken advantage of. The most elementary precautions are neither taken nor even contemplated. The reverse is the case. People such as myself, who attempt to bring openness and accountability to the system, are pursued, suspended and dismissed.” Ms Andreasen refused to sign off the accounts and went public with her concerns following which Kinnock sacked her – for failing to show sufficient loyalty and respect!!! Meanwhile, the corruption continues unabated – thirteen years later, and it will be ever thus.

The British Viewpoint 11) Corruption In 1999, Jacques Santer, the head of the European Commission, and his fellow commissioners, were forced to resign en masse over a corruption scandal. Santer had led the Commission until it collapsed after a devastating report on fraud and nepotism attacked the EU's executive body for serious management failings. The Galvin Report was named after Robert Galvin, the EU Internal Audit official. It was written at the end of 2006 as an audit of the expenses and allowances claimed by a sample of more than 160 MEPs. The existence of what was called "this shocking report" was kept secret until February 2008 when news of its existence was made public by ex-UK MEP Chris Davies. Even then, its contents remained secret and a select group of MEPs were only allowed to read the report individually in a locked and guarded room.

The British Viewpoint 11) Corruption The 2011 Cash for Influence Scandal The former Austrian MEP Ernst Strasser was convicted of attempting to change laws in the European Parliament on behalf of a business offering to pay him €100,000 a year. Strasser, a former minister who was said to have used his role as an MEP to work secretly as a lobbyist, was exposed during an undercover investigation by The Sunday Times three years ago. He was jailed for three years after being found guilty of corruption by a court in Vienna. It was the second time he had been convicted of the same offence. An earlier verdict had been overturned on appeal.

The British Viewpoint 11) Corruption EU budget fraud has historically taken a wide range of forms, from farmers seeking payments for climatically impossible sugar cane cultivation to the channelling of funds for immigration projects to what some have labelled terrorist groups. All types of EU budget fraud probably stem from inadequate budgetary control measures. This partly comes from factors inherent in the EU's structure, such as the 'Own Resources' system for funding the EU and the decentralized implementation system which puts the bulk of the responsibility for collecting and distributing EU funds on the member states. Despite much anti-fraud work and reinforced internal controls within the EU and the member states, successive scandals have surfaced that have led to an impression among the public that there is an unwillingness or inability to take action against malpractice, fraud and corruption, which undermines public support for the EU.

The British Viewpoint 12) EU Venality

The British Viewpoint TOP EU OFFICIALS‘ SALARIES (as of July 2010) basic salary of a Commissioner = €20,666 per month 5 five Vice-Presidents each earn 25% more = €22,963 per month the President receives 38% more = €25,351 per month. Figures are from 1 July 2010. salaries NOT taxed in their member states - instead, a low tax is paid to the EU salaries are multiplied by 1.15 to include a residence allowance of 15% of salary salaries when a Commissioner starts in office, he/she receives two months extra pay when leaving they receive one extra month salary plus a transitional allowance for years = 40% and 65% of their last basic salary - after 5 years as Commissioner, they receive 55% of their salary for the first 3 years of their retirement - in other words LEAVING COMMISSIONERS CONTINUE TO BE PAID BY THEIR FORMER EMPLOYER FOR AT LEAST THREE YEARS – WHICH OTHER ORGANISATIONS PAYS THEIR PREVIOUS EMPLOYEES A SALARY?

SENIOR OFFICIALS‘ PENSIONS (as of July 2010)
The British Viewpoint SENIOR OFFICIALS‘ PENSIONS (as of July 2010) SEE: Commissioners receive daily allowance when they are travelling former Commissioners receive a pension from age 65, also with low EU tax pension calculated as 4.3% of basic salary for each year up to a maximum of % of final basic salary the pension can be paid from age of 60 with a reduction to 70 % Commissioners can have their EU pensions paid in addition to all national pensions - a pensioned Commissioner with a national pension as a MP or/and a MEP, a pension as minister and a private pension from a private job can accumulate all pensions

The British Viewpoint EU EMPLOYEE ALLOWANCES (as of October 2015) Expatriation allowance = not less than €505,39 per month Foreign residence allowance = 25% of expatriation allowance Household allowance = €171,88 plus 2% of basic salary Dependent child allowance= €375,59 per month per child Education allowances: pre-school allowance €91,75 per month per child 2 school allowance up to max €510 per month per child 3 direct payment of school fees for certain international schools Birth grant = €198,31 per child in case of birth or adoption Health Insurance = complete cover worldwide for 1.7% of salary Other: very generous moving, installation and especially pension benefits

The British Viewpoint MEPs‘ REMUNERATION
MEPs are paid approx €6.250 per month NET of tax (2014 figures) MEPs leaving the Parliament after 3 years membership are paid for a further 2 years Daily allowance: in ADDITION, MEPs receive allowances for each day they sign in in the Parliament buildings in Brussels or Strasbourg the daily allowance is € 304 per day meant to cover rent and extra household but is ALSO paid to members living in and elected in Brussels an MEP can sign in 10 pm in the evening and 7 am in the morning and receive 2 days' daily allowance without taking part in any meeting or other parliamentary activity all MEPs get the same pay whether they take part in meetings and are efficient or not - some MEPs never or very seldom appear in meetings - but still have their full salary MEPs can hire staff for up to €19,709 per month (2011 figures) home secretarial costs: MEPs automatically receive €4,299 per month for this they do not need to deliver any proof and MEPs can just use this as extra salary

The British Viewpoint 13) Waste - Bizarre Projects – “The Daily Telegraph” £178,000 towards a Baltic puppet theatre project £358,000 for a project to get children to draw pictures of each other “to develop active European citizenship” £358,000 for a ‘Marathon for a United Europe’ to “promote and support European citizen ideals” £2,200 towards a Bavarian hunting lodge used by Wolfgang Porsche, chairman of Porsche, as part of rural development funds £89,000 for an upmarket Spanish hotel chain, Tils Curt, as part of the EU’s Regional Development Fund £155,000 for a top Portuguese golf resort, Monte da Quinta Club a replication of a Roman village, complete with fake hot baths, which was constructed in Perl-Borg, a small town in a wealthy area of west Germany with the help of a £1.8 million EU grant - the EU insists it only paid for the Roman gardens a “Beach City” in the Hungarian countryside with a version of Venice’s Bridge of Sighs that received £4.5 million

The British Viewpoint 13) Waste
A Belgian university — “Provinciale Hogeschool” in Limburg — that received £412,000 over seven years for “project GameHUB”, to develop computer games, including one involving the “history of puppet theatre”. The EU has given £8.8 million to an immigration advisory centre in Mali, which tells people how to find jobs in Europe. The centre has found work for six people in three years. Uganda is getting £407 million over five years. President Yoweri Museni, 67, who fought an election with posters depicting him as Rambo, bought a Gulfstream G550 jet. He has also built a lavish £100 million residence while most of his people live in poverty. In Burkina Faso, where half the population earn less than 70p a day, Belgian instructors are teaching people how to dance through the ‘I Dance Therefore I Am” project. Organisers say: ‘If its music moves, Africa will also move.” Malawi – which recently outlawed flatulence in public and ruled that gay people could face 14 years’ jail – will get £450 million in aid money over five years. Malawi’s president Bingu Mutharika bought a jet shortly after receiving the latest tranche of EU cash.

The British Viewpoint 13) Waste
£6.3m for the ‘Year of Intercultural Dialogue’ initiative, which included the Donkeypedia project, intended to get people to think about the similarities and differences of “European identities”. According to the blurb, “Donkeypedia will try to make this feeling tangible by interacting and in dialogue with its surroundings while walking a European route through several countries and collecting data to support this image.” Real name Asino, the flesh and blood beast was trotted around the Netherlands to ‘meet’ primary schoolchildren, ‘blogging’ on its way. One blog read: “We started really early today, Cristian slept in a bed in a house. It was a crazy morning waking up. I was under a chestnut tree sleeping in sand, when I opened my eyes there were animals all looking at me. I was embarrassed! Now I understand better how people from different cultures may feel in the Netherlands.”

The British Viewpoint 13) Waste – the EEAS (European Union External Action - aka Foreign Ministry) complements roles of national diplomatic services does NOT replace roles of individual Foreign Ministries and Minsters designed to give the impression that the EU is a STATE cost to set up: EIGHT BILLION EUROS employees: 4,955 (2015) annual budget €976.1 million (2015) current High Representative is Federica Mogherini, who earns €23, PER MONTH like ALL EU employees, she also pays a much-reduced tax compared to ordinary workers EEAS diplomats are entitled to 83 days or almost 17 weeks holiday a year, entitlements more than four times the holiday allowance enjoyed by most British workers

The British Viewpoint 14) Defence
NATO (aka the Americans principally) has indisputably kept peace in Europe since World War II. Even so, It was the EU which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for “saving Europe”, just one more in a series of total LIES by the European political elite. Germany and other major EU countries have for decades NOT PAID their agreed 2% of national GDP towards the cost of NATO: the bulk of NATO’s costs have been borne by the US taxpayer. In these circumstances, it is entirely logical that the US should demand a bigger contribution towards maintaining NATO. The EU response (at a time when it is floundering in all areas) is to announce the formation of a EUROPEAN ARMY. Now, who really thinks that a European army dominated by Germany is going to make Europe safer? EU fanatics are fond of saying that history makes European federation essential; they should have a think about history in relation to the Russians and empathize better with them. The EU has aggressively pushed for the entry of Ukraine into the EU. Whatever the moral merits of this policy, it is like waving a red flag in front of Russia’s nose. If the EU wants to make Europe more safe, this is NOT the way - at least not until Russia becomes more democratic. (Don’t wait up ...)

The British Viewpoint 15) EU Expansion
As has been said, a fundamental policy of the EU over decades is to grow BIGGER and have more POWER and control over European peoples. EUphiles have their reasons for this, but they are NOT reasons that have been accepted by ANY European pleb. The EU’s obsession with increasing its own size has led to an expansion into Eastern Europe which was far too fast; so fast, that the pressures have led to the opposite of what they were seeking. (Few obsessions end up well.) The stated aim of integrating Turkey into the EU is completely insane: - Turkey is NOT EVEN IN EUROPE Turkey is vastly incompatible economically and would have to be subsidised by TENS OF BILLIONS of European citizens’ money for DECADES. The ELITE might wish this (they are rich already) but the PEOPLE will NOT Turkey in the EU would give 80 MILLION Turks the right to travel (and stay) ANYWHERE in the EU Turkey is predominantly Muslim, and ISLAM’S values are incompatible with Europe’s.

The British Viewpoint 16) Germany
• Germany is by some measure the biggest economy and population in Europe which for these reasons alone would lead to Germany dominating the EU whatever else happened. • Unfortunately, the perception in the UK (and I am not saying this is right or wrong) is that only Germany really counts, that nothing can be decided without Germany and that other EU members hardly get a look-in on policy decisions. At times Frau Merkel gives the impression of thinking that she is already the Empress of Europe. • This perception has strengthened considerably since the German Chancellor made the apparently unilateral decision (no consultation with neighbours, let alone her own people) to invite millions of “refugees” into Europe. Given the famous “history” which EUphiles constantly talk about, it has been appalling governance to allow this perception to have grown, The policies and actions of the EU and European political elite in recent years have only served to INCREASE division within Europe, not reduce it.

The British Viewpoint CONCLUSION
The British PEOPLE (not its establishment, which is as detached from its people and from reality just as much as its counterparts over the Channel) has for all the above reasons decided to LEAVE the EU, which it entered as a “COMMON MARKET” but which has changed unrecognizably since 1975 when we voted to join. This creeping and largely unmandated progression has of course been a deliberate attempt to foist federalisation onto the peoples of Europe without their realising it - the original dream of Jean Monnet. The British people will ALWAYS be part of “Europe”, for which it made immense sacrifices in two wars to defeat Continental fascism. We will continue to trade freely with the Continent, as indeed we have for thousands of years - but we will not be part of the corrupt, wasteful, incompetent, undemocratic and ruinous EU. We want to retain our sovereignty and independence, like the VAST majority of other countries in the world - and indeed the 56% of European countries not even IN the EU.

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