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Immigration scandal: Lancastrian takes Yorkshireman’s job, Yorkshire threatens to leave the UK

It’s interesting to listen to the list of wrongs done to the UK by immigrants (or even some times non-white or non-Christian people). This often leaves me baffled even before I look at the facts and figures. I like to … Continue reading

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Things I would like to see from the LeaveEU campaigns.

  Things I would like to see proposed from the LeaveEU campaigns: 1. A list of EU directives, rules and regulations that they plan to repeal if ‘we get our sovereignty back’? They claim that they don’t like the rules … Continue reading

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Why isn’t Germany planning to Leave the EU?

When you hear the Brexiteers blaming the EU for this and for that one thing that they never seem to acknowledge is that whatever the EU does, we are a full part of its deliberations and decisions. If the EU … Continue reading

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Leaving would embroil the Government for years in negotiating new arrangements

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Remain in or Leave the EU – the choice is yours

I am a supporter of the UK REMAINing in the EU. To me it is a no brainer for a shed load of entirely positive reasons including -: Membership of a Customs Union removing all tariffs and trade barriers as … Continue reading

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Deconstructing the Leavers’ arguments – Myths, cliches and generalisations

An interesting side-effect of the EU Referendum (well, interesting to me at least) is the way it highlights the use of emotive language. Even when trying to scare us, the Remain people talk in measured tones,  using well-constructed, syntactically correct … Continue reading

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UK & the EU – They need us more than we need them, a lesson from history.

SECEXIT –  A LESSON FROM HISTORY ‘They need us more than we need them – they need to continue selling their manufactures to us. Of course we can negotiate a deal.’ Where might we have heard these bright confident words … Continue reading

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Lord Lawson’s detailed plan: simply repeal 1972 EC Act – how is that BETTER than EU membership

In the Telegraph today Nigel Lawson sets out his “detailed” plan for a post-Brexit UK. The bottom line of the article is what he envisages as a detailed plan for a post-Brexit UK. I have been asked “what, then, is … Continue reading

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Do the Leavers have a plan for something BETTER than the EU – if so how about telling us all?

The problem is that different groups want to leave the EU for different reasons. So long as these reasons are kept vague there is no problem but the moment people try to describe, which they rarely do, how they see … Continue reading

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Daniel Hannan admits there will be freedom of movement after a Brexit – so why is leaving the EU the better option?

It is clear that the Leave campaigners do not have a clear, cohesive idea about what the alternatives to the UK’s membership of the EU are. One of the main planks of the EUphobes’ argument is immigration. According to Daniel … Continue reading

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