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January 2010
How The European Union Affects You and Why you should vote UKIP!
The European Union probably means nothing to you and you think it has no effect on your daily lives.
In 1974 when Britain entered the European Economic Market (EEC), we joined on the understanding that our Economy would benefit from being part of a Union of Trade.
As we now know, The European Union was set to become a Political Union all along, this means that 75% of Britains laws and legislation are now made in a foreign land.
On the 1st of December 2009, the Lisbon Treaty came in to force, effectively ending sovereignty of 27 European countries. The Lisbon Treaty is in fact the EU constitution and is self-amending, which means that the EU will no longer need to ask for the member states permission for changes.
The EU costs Britain £45 million a day to be a member. To put that into perspective, we could build a new NHS Super Hospital in the UK every week with the money currently funding the EU project.
And here's the very best part; Britain is the second largest contributor to the EU. France is richer than the UK yet they do not contribute as much.
Just some of the consequences of EU rule:
Household:
Home Information Packs (HIPs), fortnightly bin collections,
higher household electricity bills, more wind turbines, soaring
water bills.
Consumer affairs:
New Royal Mail pricing rules, bureaucracy at the bank, fewer and
more expensive fish, extinction of swathes of vegetable
varieties, phasing out of incandescent bulbs.
Law and order:
Government's inability to expel EU criminals from the UK, the European arrest warrant.
Health:
Fewer training hours for doctors, compromised patient safety, higher costs for the NHS.
For in depth analysis please see: Open Europe
People in Britain need to wake up. We have to make sure no further powers are transfered to the EU in Brussels. All we have to do is leave The European Union: it's as simple as that.
James Edgecombe