So you haven't taken anything in I have just written, have you? I said very clearly that it is true that British companies exporting to the EU will still have to abide by EU regulations but that's the same for Russian, American, Algerian, Saudi, Chinese and Indian producers who export to the EU. The difference that getting out of the EU in terms of consumer regulations is that the UK outside of the EU would have more flexibility in terms of domestic consumption, ie we could completely remove tariffs on African agricultural goods which is something that the highly protectionist French would never permit within the EU framework/trade policy.Quote:
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This scenario would put us in roughly the same position as every other country on the planet.
Our economy is much bigger than the Swiss economy, giving us more negotiating power.Quote:
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I see articles which show that in schools across this country now as well as homes and communities, English is being sidelined in our own country and cultural and language ghettos are springing up. I care deeply about social cohesion. It's important.Quote:
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It does actually, yes. One of the key features of a country and being a human being in a community means being able to interact with one another as well as the obvious fact too that language shapes culture. It scares me that in many areas around this country, people are not talking with one another or are talking in their own languages and living in their own seperate ethnic/cultural groups... in other words, ghettoisation is taking place. And I fear where and what that will lead to.Quote:
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I wouldn't like to live in an area where I could not understand anybody. I speak English, I want to feel like i'm in England. My home.
Or maybe the figures the former head of the unit states are true but are deemed too 'politically sensitive' to release?Quote:
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Where have I advocated that we not work with the rest of Europe? I was a huge fan of NATO during the Cold War which saw us working with our Atlantic and European allies, and I am a huge fan today of the Commonwealth where we have a forum with our colonial cousins. I'm also a fan of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) as a force for liberalising trade hence why I want Britain to leave the EU and thus retake her seat on that important body which gives us a top seat at the world table. I am for intergovernmentalism, but against supranationalism.Quote:
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And yes, I do love my country. What's wrong with that?
But that's just rhetoric. I have already given you evidence how Britain is the only European country expected to remain in the top 10 global economies by 2050, I could go on about how Britain's close links with her former colonies along with the Commonwealth could see us taking huge advantage of the growing Asian economies by signing FTAs with them - something we can only do by leaving the EU. I could also point to the City of London, which is miles ahead of any other financial centre in the world thanks to our Anglo-Saxon instinct of free trade with far away places. You call me nationalistic, but i'm the optimistic one - you seem to think that our future is being forever chained to a shrinking part of the global economy.Quote:
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You want a federal Europe with the abolition of our sovereignty, don't you? Why not just have the guts to come out and say it?Quote:
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