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o, there is much ado about President Obama coming to Britain
and
expressing his view that the country should remain in the EU. Frankly, I cannot
see any valid argument against the POTUS arguing for Britain to remain; I would
go so far as to say it is the only logical option for Britain at present.
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hat sense could it make for Britain to leave the European Union;
which is not to say there is nothing wrong or dysfunctional with the EU?
Yes, it could be described as a cancer eating up everything it comes into
contact with, national sovereignty and National autonomy, national expression
of 'democracy', accountability, free trade, etc, but guess what?
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t is top dog in Europe and it is still busy cartelising the rest
of Europe, after which it will doubtlessly find some way of making states
outside of Europe 'associate members' of itself.
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f course the EU, if it continues to grow and become more of a
political union, will probable implode at sometime in the future, but that is
something which could possibly be avoided by Britain remain In it and working
with others to reform it.
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ome commentators have argued that President Obama has no right to
argue that Britain should remain in the Union, but, of course he has a right to
do so. The same right as anybody else with an interest in the country and the organizations
of which it is a member, to say, I think it would be the wrong call for Britain
to leave the Union.
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t is reasonable to argue that, if Britain were to leave the EU,
she would have to re-evaluate her position on probably all or most international
bodies, UN, NATO, WTO. With regards to trade, she would have to renegotiate
trade agreements with all of her former EU partners; in fact, she might find
that she has to re-invent the wheel and start again, which could only be to the
country's detriment.
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ne of the basis principles about taxation, is that you should
never introduce a tax which is likely to bring in less revenue than the cost of
collecting it. Britain could find that she places herself in such an invidious
position, were she to opt to leave the EU.
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nly in extremely desperate circumstances would any country choose
to opt out of the EU, and such circumstances do not exist at present, so their
is not over-riding need for Britain to jump the EU ship and be cast adrift.
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ogic and prudence, it seems to me, are with the Brixiners. Staying
put is the positive approach.
OWOHROD
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