| Pyro as Bill said: Crazyhorse, I would have voted no not because I'm ignorant but because I know full well what the EU is. I don't buy the "We need to be a superstate to compete with China, USA, India". It's horseshit. Free trade zone? I don't mind. Socialist suprstate? No. If Europe wants to be a superstate that's fine but I want no part of it and I want England to have no part in it either. Scotland and Wales can go join for all I care, I want independence from them anyway. |
That's fair enough, I certainly don't mean to imply all Eurosceptics are ignorant, far from it. There is however, a large segment of the UK population who simply have no idea what the EU does and even less what the new treaty actually proposes and simply base their opinions on what the EU-sceptic press tells them.
I'm not convinced there needs to be a completely intergrated Europe but I definately believe that enhanced co-operation between states is desirable. I do believe the EU needs to be represented as a power on the world stage, not only to put forward our values but also to negotiate better trade deals (in particular with the US). The EU is also the only organisation willing to stand up to large industries. Recent laws passed include lowering unreasonable credit card fees across europe as well as well as forcing mobile companies to cut their ridiculous pan-european tariffs. You are also entiitled to compensation on flights should an airline over book your flight (and these are only the laws or the top of my head).
Furthermore there is the cross Europe health care program as well as scientific collaborations all of which require a commision/parliment of some sort to monitor and run. Not to mention the fact that this type of intergration makes war between member states extremely improbable (although I accept there are many factors involved here).
