It isn't simply the benefits it will bring to the nation, but also the benefits it will bring to Europe. Among many other things, we (and I mean all the nations of the EU), suffer from the appalling single market and the inability to favour ones own people and companies and to have our own standards. It threatens the identity of all member states. Free trade is one thing; enforcing common standards is quite another.
Yes, it's terrible to have common standards thus making it easier to trade with other nations, isn't it?
You see, you think the EU's bad and wrong for having common standards. But what do you think happens when you want to trade with the US? Or they want to trade with us? It's not a free for all. If you want to sell your product to the US, you have to abide by their rules. Rules that - incidentally - ban Kinder Eggs.
Global trade is all about standards of one form or other. And the thing is, with the US we get zero say in those standards. Nothing. Our opinion is meaningless because we're pretty small fry. We have no choice but to comply. You comply with the US rules or you don't trade.
Here's the thing with the single market. We get a say. We help shape and define those common standards. And because everyone in the EU shares the same rule book, we can just sell our products abroad. No paper work. Nothing. It's some of the easiest trade in the world. And we have a say in what those rules are.
The awful marmalade directive is an example of the nonsense we have (in this case, at UK insistence; enforcing our meaning of the word on other countries).
the marmalade directive. This is a new one on me I must confess.
But I did some research and it turns out EU law means something can only be called marmalade if it has at least 20% citrus fruit! And that the rules basically support the British definition of marmalade! It gets worse. Thanks to a BRITISH VICTORY in the EU, it's the UK that stopped other countries calling non-citrus based products marmalade! At least one German MEP HATED the marmalade directive that he wanted it changed! And probably many people do - and the reason it is what it is, is because of the UK!
It's all there in this Daily Telegraph article for anyone not clear on this maddening directive!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/10/german-mep-demands-brexit-ends-hated-eu-marmalade-law/Condate - I think you better find some better reasons to hate the EU than that one. Cos that one is our fault.
I hope Brexit will be the first step in the dissolution of the EU and the start of the building of a new and better Europe based on the real principles which make Europe, Europe and not on the liberal and economic basis that the EU embodies. Personally, I think that if Brexit does not bring out the liberation of at least some and preferably all the nations of Europe, it will not have succeeded. I also think that if we do not go ahead with Brexit, Parliament will not only have let down the people of the UK, but the people of France, Germany, Poland and the rest.
The EU is taking Europe in the wrong direction entirely, and we owe it all of Europe to help put an end to it.
So basically you have no tangible benefits for leaving other than that we can continue to sell marmalade just as we always have, . Just irrational hatred caused by your own misunderstanding. You hate something so much that you want it completely destroyed. That leaving is not enough for you. That the democratic views of people in 27 other countries are not enough for you. You demand destruction. Because you hate. Because you hate the EU because you don't understand the background to the marmalade directives.
I think it sums up the argument really.
