Europe - Not the rock band..

Dear devoted Glums

I read the  'i' newspaper. Yes me 'middle England'. I like it because it's cheap, factual (mostly), has a fair sports section and contains very little celebrity nonsense. It does however have a questionable political stance and is also much loved it seems (judging by the letters published) by Europhiles. This has lead me to compose this entry.

They (I presume left of centre folk) consistently bang on about how we must not leave 'Europe' and that the referendum will prove disastrous for the UK economy. 'We will lose important trade partners' they chime 'The Americans only want to deal with the EU and Britain will stand alone, ignored and  forlorn'
Presumably these  are the same Americans that 'they' chastise at every opportunity for their inhumane foreign policy and eaves dropping across the internet..' as for the 150bn of European trade why precisely will that disappear overnight ? Be honest, it won't will it - but it's the one and only, ill-founded argument.

This unreasoned mantra is lacking any tangible evidence, or in laymen's terms is 'utter bollocks'.
Meanwhile it is incredulous to think that a very minor political party can cause such as stir, present arguments that contain statistics and hard facts regarding EU contributions and yet the mainstream parties can come up the no single  good reason for continuing down the road to complete Euepean Union. How many spin-doctors and researchers does it take to come up with just one single good reason why we continue to be a large net contributor to a parasitic bureaucracy with only its own self interest at heart ?

UKIP for example has never once denounced the principle benefit of being part of what was once know as the EEC - free trade. No reasonable person could wish for trade barriers between near neighbours - what they asking is for someone to put the brakes on this runaway train and think back to 1973 when free trade was pretty much all that was on the table and was all that the British people voted for. NOT the Euro, NOT fiscal Union and certainly NOT political union.

Come on Labour, Lib dems et al tell us why  the EU is so great ? Free trade is a given and not disputed  (since 1973) so you can't have that argument, and none of this clap trap about it being a great club to be in and how we need to unite to defend our economy against the Chinese - poppycock. The EU can never compete with the Chinese and Indians due among other things to the simple fact of punitive labour laws and factory wages.

The answer it seems is a two tier Europe - free trade for all and political union plus fancy infrastructure projects for those who think they can afford it . Meanwhile I can think of quite some uses for that 53 million pounds AWEEK that we put into the Euro-trough for van Rompuy and all his corrupt chums to scoff - the greedy bastards.