Argument Against Tuvalu

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Forty years ago, the British people voted by referendum to join the European Economic Community. But that wasn’t too fair a referendum now, was it? You see, the British people only gave input to join an economic community which has since transformed to the European Community, and now the European Union without the consent of the British people. Since our admittance to the EU, our right to self-govern has slowly dwindled away. Right now, for example, the European Union makes 75% of our laws. They tell us who we can trade with, who can pass through our borders, who we can tax, who can fish in our waters, and then they say at the end of each year, “Oh, by the way, you owe us $17,075,400,000.”
The referendum on whether or not to remain in the
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They say the EU is the largest economy in the world (which is true) and that without EU membership, Britain would become an obscure insignificant island. Such Eurofanatics also assert Britain is not strong enough, Britain is not influential enough, Britain is not good enough on her own. But let me tell you this folks, if Tuvalu, a small island of 10 miles wide in the Pacific ocean is big enough to sign a trade agreement with China without EU approval, then so is the 5th largest economy in the world, so is 1 of 5 members of the UN security council, and so is the home to 2 billion worldwide English speakers today.

According to EU regulations, the 2500 square miles of territorial fishing waters we own must now be shared with each of the other 27 member states. Now, other countries such as Spain and Belgium have established fishing enterprises in our waters exploiting our natural resources at the expense of our fishermen. The EU also mandated that thousands of tons of fish which were since killed must be dumped back into the water for “conservation purposes.” Such regulations have led to an estimated 2.5 billion pound loss, and have contributed to the overfishing of our waters and thus a dwindling supply of available
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If Germany gets their way they will implement napoleonic era code law folks. No longer is our supreme court the highest judicial authority in the UK, the ECJ is. No longer will juries decide who is guilty, only judges will. No longer will the prosecution have to stop prosecuting an acquitted defendant, they can prosecute the innocent man over and over again until they get a lucky and a judge puts him away. This is not democracy, it is napoleonic era autocracy which is unconstitutional, but our supreme court cannot even declare it so as it is no longer the highest court in the

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