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Old 15-09-2017, 17:52   #1451
Margaret Pilkington
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Re: Referendum is a load of crap.!!

The problem with the Greeks was that avoiding taxes was a national sport and people could retire with a pension from 55...but if when the finances went south, the EU had taken them out of the single currency, they would have been able to revert to the Drachma and devalue their currency.
This would have had tourists flocking in...and it would have been easier to get the finances back on track.
But No, the EU parachuted a technocrat government in and imposed punitive austerity measures.
This creates resentment and animosity.

I think I gave you a few specific reasons why the EU is not good for us.
Common Agricultural policy, the fishery issues, the working time directive etc.
The free movement of EU nationals was also another specific reason, jobs, houses, benefits, these are all specific.
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