Britain has already dropped from fourth place to fifth in the top world economies and that trend will continue because, as a nation, we are too small to carry on trading in sterling in the hope that the euro collapses.
Remember how they would say the euro would bankrupt the EU, whereas in reality it has grown stronger and is almost equal now to the US dollar, which is itself in decline. The EU is now set to be 27 countries and still expending as will, of course, the currency within the zone.
Then there is all the hostility around the world mainly due to religious beliefs with a lot of hatred towards Britain. Therefore we need all of Europe on our side, rather than have other EU countries treating us as outsiders.
Europeans are not foreigners, we here have always been European. In fact why treat anyone as foreign? We are all conceived in the same way, and just because we might live on a different piece of land, divided by sea or, worse of all, a line drawn on a map, should we be considered as an alien? People do come in different sizes and colours, but so what?
Political leaders go to church claiming their God is the one who looks after them, not all of us, which is hardly generous or kind, indeed it’s damned selfish.
Charles Kennedy was the best opposition leader we had until recently. He was the first to agree that the subject of Europe was not on the last general election agenda because it might have proven a vote loser. I say British business was looking for leadership and we now don’t have it. That is why so many firms have gone abroad, or bust. British subjects are leaving the country as we are over-taxed.
The UK is the corner shop, struggling to stay open and putting up prices, or taxes, while Europe is the large supermarket, which has grown and taken a massive chunk of the trading market through competitiveness. If we were using the euro, we would benefit.
The euro would bring in investment, not stifle it. The pound has seen its best. We are not the British Empire any longer.
Richard Gran
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