>> Please note, greater involvement does not involve capitulation or emasculation.
If that were the case or I could be convinced it would be so in the future, I'd consider voting 'in'.... i'm not daft, I can see many of the 'in' pluses.
Take as a small example, one of the points the PM raised at his recent visit to Brussels. He and his govt felt that paying child allowance to people's from elsewhere whose children are not in this country was a 'no-no'.
Instead of us just changing our law and saying to such people 'no child here = no child benefit', we have to ask the EU if we can change things to allow us to do it???
If that isn't emasculation, what is?... then multiply it for all the other issues out there...another e.g. getting rid of foreign born criminals... why can't we just say 'cheerio'?.. backed up by a law that we've created?
By the way, thank you for the extensive and thorough reply.
Last edited by: Westpig on Mon 22 Feb 16 at 20:12
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