European Elections

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And? Seems fine to me. Some people are colourblind or have issues with their site which could mean that differences in the colour of the light is potentially dangerous.

In your conclusion then, we can't decide that ourselves and we need the EU to tell us what green is wrong and what green is wrong when we have had traffic lights for the past 100+ years and invented traffic lights.

Consumer protection/safety/noise pollution.

We need the EU to tell us how loud our lawnmowers can be? - we are incapable of making that legislation ourselves in one of the oldest democracies in the world?

It's more of a clafication than a law and I assume this is to prevent delivery firms or postal firms charging extra for an 'island service' to people who live on bridged islands or governments not providing services to those living on islands.

No, it is pointless and costly legislation that the EU throws out everyday, it has no relavence at all to anything and is no use to anyone. We don't need a clafication on what an island is, thank you very much, especially as we live on one.

It won't happen.

Just like the EU superstate won't happen?, yet a embelm, anthem and so forth were attempted to be pushed through and will be pushed through in the future. This report by the EU itself apparently aims to take control of our naval bases, so it looks as if the EU has some military plans on its mind.

It is rather stupid, yes. But I guess the idea is that they wish to standardise a kiwi fruit so consumers can expect the same thing.

Consumers have been coping fine while shopping for the past hundred or more years without the EU telling us our Kiwis and carrots are 1mm too big. Not only is that stupid and an incredible waste of money, it also shows what kind of state the EU wants to become, big state small people.

'Un-AbsurdEU' laws include unrestricted movement of goods and services, not that absurd of a law in my opinion. Maybe the Data Protection Directive counts as a fairly decent law. 2 million people in the UK rely on the free movement of labour for their jobs. I know people who need to travel the whole of the union for their jobs, bye-bye to foreign companies based here that need that freedom of goods and labour, bye-bye to those jobs, bye-bye to further economic prosperity. Once the trade barriers have gone up, goodbye to our largest export and import partner. We'd have to take back millions who have moved abroad to spain and france (who are generally of the older generation) who would not be eligible to live there. We might need visas to go on holiday. In my opinion it would be disasterous. We've experienced fairly decent economic growth over the last 25 years, why risk that? I think it would be absurd to leave.

Hang on, so we only move around the EU and nowhere else? - you do know thousands if not millions of people travel all around the world regarding business, my teachers husband travels to Nigeria and so forth on business, last time I checked Nigeria was not in the European Union.

This is all some excuse for creating a large superstate which no one actually wants. You do not need to be governed by the EU to trade with the European Union, why do you and eurocrats not understand this? -individual trade and other deals would be undertaken with European countrys concerning trade and movement of goods and people just like it was before the European Union.

Farmers and fishermen from both side of the channel would strongly disagree with you that the EU has been great, I haven't seen overwhelming support for the EU from business either, a lot of EU regulation actually costs business money as they have to implement them directives from the EU, the examples AbsurdEU is the kind of petty and pointless legisation businesses have to pass from Brussels.

This data protection directive could be passed by our own government and we could choose elements of the directive on our own so that it benefits this country to the best of its ability, so i'm afraid the EU having some decent laws in your eyes is an argument with no foundation as it could easily and should be passed in our own parliament, as have our soverign laws for the past 300 or more years.

We might need visas to go on holiday? - oh my god what is the world coming to!? - personally if it improves the safety of people travelling to my country and other countrys then i'm all for filling in an extra few sheets for a visa just like the system the United States has in place. Basing your argument on the fact that we may have to fill in some more paperwork is proposterous, i'd rather do that than be governed by a load of foreign, faceless, left-wing, unelected eurocrats in Brussles, along with paying a £40 million daily bill for membership.

Yes. Yes it is. Businesses which export would say so too. And remember alot of that money comes back to us and some of the money spent would have to spent on similiar nationawide schemes.

I give you £1, you spend 50 pence on me - does that make sense when I could spend the £1 on myself and get double the benefits what you gave me? - it is the same with the EU, so we are basically handing over billions of pounds in our money, having it taxed by the EU and then having what is left of that money handed back to us.

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Oh bloody hell.. The EU have gone and accepted Spain's request for control over Gibraltar's territorial waters