Re: UK trade with other EU countries
Originally Posted by
Moscow
->
If you've heard nothing as to why people voted Brexit that will only be because you refuse to listen.
1) Ever closer union and the transfer of even more sovereign powers to Brussels was a good enough reason for me.
2) Having Laws made in Brussels by legislators with no interest in the UK that are not directly accountable to the UK electorate is another.
3) Take the Irish/UK border issue.........That is an area that the EU should not be touching with a barge pole as they are undermining the GFA with their proposals.
Ultimately, the GFA is an agreement between two communities.
4) The EU do not understand the significance of that word 'Agreement' .
5) Varadkar has made a serious mistake in letting the EU control the position on the Irish border and overplay the significance of the tiny amount of trade that crosses that border and risk the whole Withdrawal agreement and the amount of UK-EU trade over the piddling amount that crosses between Eire and NI......
1) As the phrase "ever closer union" is to be found in the EU treaties themselves, amending or deleting it would require every country to agree. Instead, the UK could be formally exempted from the aspiration to “ever closer union,” which could be confirmed by treaty change down the line.
Sovereignty is an amalgam of many things and therefore cannot be presented as a single entity.
2) Laws made in Brussels are agreed to by the UK and the other 27 members. There is an argument that UK laws are affected by between 13 and 55%.
So what??
3) I presume you mean the UK/EU border. The GFA was made between 2 members of the EU.
159.The positive role played by the EU in relation to the peace process can be encapsulated in four areas: the safeguards that EU membership provides in underpinning the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement; the role that common UK-Irish EU membership played and continues to play in transforming relations between the two countries; the effect of common EU membership in diluting cross-community tensions in Northern Ireland; and the positive impact of EU funding in Northern Ireland.
That's why
4) The withdrawal agreement was signed by all 28 members of the EU. And then we want to change it!!!!!!
To say that the EU don't understand the word agreement is a bit rich.
5) Evidently that is an OPINION rather than a substantiated fact.
Please try and come up with some valid reasons for leaving.
Dam, just missed a try by England against France