Quote Originally Posted by 9goals2hattricks3pen View Post
But can't you see you are EQUALLY guilty of posting rubbish/lies

In an earlier post you state £1.2 billion as our cost of EU membership. According to the EU Commision figures it's £8.9 billion net.

In the above post

'London BECAME a powerhouse of financial services and now millions of jobs are dependent on international trade - particularly the Single Market'

You have got to be having a laugh. FYI London was a powerhouse of financial services a few hundred years before we joined the EEC. To suggest it was because of EU membership is bonkers beyond belief. Are you suggesting MILLIONS of jobs would be lost if we left?

We were labelled 'The Sick Man of Europe' well after we joined thge EEC. We stopped being so when Thatcher sorted out the unions (imo Callaghan was our worst PM) in the 80's. Nothing to do with the EU. I googled Sick Man of Europe and since 1990 the following countries have been so labelled
Germany
France
Italy
Portugal
Ireland
Greece
Finland
The common denominator for me is they are all EU countries so don't spout at me the daft idea that it's EU membership that is responsible for the UK losing that tag.

So when talking of pointing fingers remember that when you do so 1 is pointing out and 3 are pointing back at yourself.

Now behave!
Read it back again, I was replying back to another poster who said we were spending an additional £1.2b this year in EU contributions. I don't know how accurate that figure is by the way... I didn't state it!

I'll accept your apology in advance...

You're an intelligent man, I can't understand how you cannot see that some of our industries will absolutely be under threat from leaving the EU? I'm not saying millions of jobs will be lost, I'm saying they will be put at risk.

800k jobs in the UK are directly or indirectly in the automotive industry sector, which relies hugely on the JiT delivery system...which relies hugely on the Single Market. The costs are not pretty when a production line goes down at one of those plants. And the majority of them are foreign owned. I should highlight this is only one of our industries that is under threat.

And if you think we don't agree on the EU....don't even get me started on Thatcher!

My perspective on the whole Brexit debate is pretty simple, we are economically far better off remaining in the EU than we are leaving it.