Over half of our trade goes with Europe, if they make laws we will have to fall in line with them otherwise we will not be allowed to sell our goods and services there as we will be breaking their laws but they wont be breaking our law.

Lets take an hypothetical example of a European rule being enacted limiting a mortgage to 3 times the salary of the people taking out the mortgage and requiring a 10% deposit.
Britain lets say has not signed up to this rule and says the free market should decide.

The other Europeans could therefore make it an offence for any banks with branches within the signatory countries from offering lets say 100% mortgages, even if those mortgages are only being sold in the UK.
The effect would then be that the big banks would then need to decide do they only trade in the UK market, and be able to continue to offer 100% mortgages, or do they trade across Europe and have restrictions placed upon them.

At this moment in time there is an example of a European treaty that Britain hasnt signed upto having an influence on the UK, and that is the Shengen agreement. Check out the Lille Loophole which makes our border checks completely redundant.

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Over half of our trade goes with Europe, if they make laws we will have to fall in line with them otherwise we will not be allowed to sell our goods and services there as we will be breaking their laws but they wont be breaking our law.

Lets take an hypothetical example of a European rule being enacted limiting a mortgage to 3 times the salary of the people taking out the mortgage and requiring a 10% deposit.
Britain lets say has not signed up to this rule and says the free market should decide.

The other Europeans could therefore make it an offence for any banks with branches within the signatory countries from offering lets say 100% mortgages, even if those mortgages are only being sold in the UK.
The effect would then be that the big banks would then need to decide do they only trade in the UK market, and be able to continue to offer 100% mortgages, or do they trade across Europe and have restrictions placed upon them.

At this moment in time there is an example of a European treaty that Britain hasnt signed upto having an influence on the UK, and that is the Shengen agreement. Check out the Lille Loophole which makes our border checks completely redundant.

www.scotsman.com/news/uk/lille_l ... _1_1999897

The EU's increasing liberalism, i wouldnt call it neo, certainly not in the American sense of the term, has been designed to open up traditionally nationalistic markets to fair trade.
It is however i agree having some unwelcome consequences. For example the NHS is seen by some in Europe as a state run monopoly that is hindering competition within the European medical services industry. Hence the pressure to privatise the NHS

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The imposition of unelected commissioners to run Italy and Greece is of great concern to me. Its another reason why we need Britain as part of Europe rather than sitting on the sidelines. An influential Britain should be pushing for the democratisation of Europe, the UK unlike most of Europe has a long standing tradition of free speech.
When you consider that in the last 100 years Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy and all the former Eastern block states, have been under dictatorial rule, you do worry about how this affects national attitudes to understanding freedom, and democratically accountable public bodies.

The EU's increasing liberalism, i wouldnt call it neo, certainly not in the American sense of the term, has been designed to open up traditionally nationalistic markets to fair trade.
It is however i agree having some unwelcome consequences. For example the NHS is seen by some in Europe as a state run monopoly that is hindering competition within the European medical services industry. Hence the pressure to privatise the NHS

www.politics.co.uk/comment-analy ... vatisation

The imposition of unelected commissioners to run Italy and Greece is of great concern to me. Its another reason why we need Britain as part of Europe rather than sitting on the sidelines. An influential Britain should be pushing for the democratisation of Europe, the UK unlike most of Europe has a long standing tradition of free speech.
When you consider that in the last 100 years Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy and all the former Eastern block states, have been under dictatorial rule, you do worry about how this affects national attitudes to understanding freedom, and democratically accountable public bodies.