Re: So what benefit has membership of the EU been to us?
Originally Posted by
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Good list Devo.
But at the end of the day, when all is told, we can never boast a clear profit, even if some expenditure must be regarded as long term investment. So, understandably, the EU is not for the aggrieved amongst us.
The EU is fundamentally different from the UK in so many ways.
For all its deficiencies the UK is very much more democratic than the EU.
Albeit that our civil service was highly politicised by that awful Blair it is still not the executive of the UK whereas the European Commission is and uses the output from the European Parliament as one of its inputs and the structure of the European Parliament is such that it acts more as a committee than a source of policy.
BREXIT came about because as a nation we are not prepared to be dictated to by a bunch of unelected bureaucrats running their own agenda and politically unanswerable to the public making laws that are then passed to be rubber stamped by the European Parliament.
So quite apart from the bottom line negative figure when the cost benefit of EU membership is concerned as a nation our very ethos is counter to that of the rest of the EU member states though Hungary is also increasingly obviously finding Brussels a very incompatible bedfellow.