this whole thing about sovereignty and 'God save the £' is ridiculuous. exactly why is the pound so important? can somebody explain why the pound gives us a sense of national identity? what excatly is the difference between one piece of metal (the pound) and another piece of metal (the euro)? once the euro has settled and interest rates are aligned, i see no reason why the UK should not adopt the euro.
Well in someways there is no reason. But, It will be inflationary. May be some of those who live in € land can give their account of this. You see people won't bother to work out what the price was in £ and then you loose track of the value and inflation runs wild.
OK when we make trips to France it will be easier to compare prices.
But it's a high price to pay.
as for the constitution itself, the idea of being goverened by 'bureaucratic prats' is no different to what we have under the labour government. everybody is worried that we'll end up being governed by brussels but will that really be any different to be governed by downing street. its not like we have a say in what rules of law we live under at the moment.
We just don't need another layer of Bureaucacy. We have the local Govt. Then we have the National Govt. We got by with that for Hundreds of years. The in 1973 we Joined the ECC. Since then things have gone down hill. (IMHO) now they are even talking about another layer of Govt in England with the Regional Govt thing.
We just don't need it.
A few months ago we went to a Pub Chain for a meal. After the Meal I said,
"Oh I'd like some Cheese and Biscuits. Please".
"Sorry Sir we no longer serve Cheese. It an EU directive." Replied the waiter.
FFS I thought?
He went on to say it had somthing to do with keeping food at room temprature.
I don't care where the layers are but we sure as hell don't need four or even three. So I say perm any two from X.
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