You must have seen signs saying "erected with EU funding"
What I can't understand is why Hull then voted overwhelmingly to leave.
Maybe the signs should read 'erected with a fraction of the money that we have paid into the EU, the fraction that they have seen fit to spend in the UK' those signs are nothing more than EU propaganda for the gullible. Most of the money the EU takes in is spent in enlarging the Federal Empire as bribes for joining - a cynical land grab policy.
The EU is like a Sundew insect trap, it offers nectar to unsuspecting insects and once they take it they are trapped and get slowly dissolved by the plants juices, their struggles are futile as they are absorbed into the body of the plant to fuel its growth.
The EU has fires springing up all over, but they have locked all the fire exits, we may be able to get out before it is consumed though.
That seems a bit harsh is it not?
I think the purpose of the EU is to promote co-operation between neighbouring nations allowing them to live in peace and harmony.
I could list many advantages of remaining in the EU but could not do it nearly as well as by letting you read the goals of the EU.
https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/eu-in-brief_en
Please feel free to tell me of any of these to which you object.
(the sections referring to the Euro obviously do not apply)
The most obvious thing that made people live in peace and harmony since 1945 is the atom bomb and NATO, nothing at all to do with the EU. But having said that, Germany has used the EU to achieve what it did not in two world wars, control of Europe and a ready (captive) market for its products. Reading the glossy brochure of the EU tells people nothing about its real aims, which is a total political and fiscal union - a Federal Superstate. I could sort of understand the common market (which was not a bad idea and is what we originally joined) - but our beloved leaders did not deem it necessary to show us the small print, which was ever tighter political and economic unity and centralised control. If USA makes good its promise on 'normalising' tariffs between them and the EU, its gonna be fun. The EU has long put up barriers to countries wanting to export into it, they contribute little to NATO and are a customs cartel ( Jeremy Corbyn said their tariffs are a barrier to poorer and developing countries, and even USA by the look of it).
Anyway, talking of keeping the peace, have a look at Bosnia - the EU stood by while the fire raged and in the end it fell to USA and UK to sort it out - the EU could not even sort out a small scuffle on its border, Russia must look at 'paper tiger' Europe with contempt, and who can blame them.
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/german-military-short-tanks-combat-aircraft-nato-mission/
Hi,
Thanks for getting back to me.
Since you haven't shown any objections to any of the goals in my link I assume either you can find no fault with them or that you haven't bothered to read them.
Can I point out a few places where I disagree with your reply ?
1. Peace has been maintained between the countries in the EU by having a common purpose and by negotiation. Threatening to drop an atom bomb on another European country would be self destructive.
2. Germany has recovered better from the war than some other European countries by dint of hard work and sensible investment in its future. Nobody is forcing anybody to buy German cars or kitchen goods. Germany is not the EU.
3 Where better to read about the EU Goals than on the official website? The Telegraph, Express or Mail?
4. I know very little about the Bosnian conflict but to call it a "small scuffle" when it cost about 200000 lives is disingenuous. Many of them killed, I would imagine, by US or UK weapons.
Perhaps, had the former Yugoslavia been in the EU at the time, things might have been different.
Military intervention by UK and US does not have a great track record.
5 Russia will have even more contempt for the "paper tiger Europe" when it starts to tear itself to bits.