Britain Leaving the EU?

I do not think things would be as straight forward as this next article states. However, with all the hardships that will ensue after the UK leaves the EU; I do think it would be better for us to leave rather then try for a renegotiated relationship with the EU.  We must be completely in or completely out. To be completely in a very undemocratically led EU, as it is at the moment, is no longer a viable option.  In the long run, the EU will become democratically viable to its citizens, but alas, not quick enough for the UK. Our politicians can't sell the EU to the electorate as it is. The EU has dropped the ball and no longer cares about UK membership to the degree of becoming democratically responsible to European voters quick enough. The EU is far too interested in saving the EU currency. Rome burns while un-elected Presidents play their fiddles.  The EU - Superstate or Free Trade Partner? We Can Leave. EU leaders are determined on political union.  This is clear from the way the Lisbon Treaty and the Constitution were driven through, ignoring their rejection by popular votes in Ireland, France and Holland.   Polls show that almost no-one in the UK wants political union, and more and more want us to leave.  The politicians tell us that leaving the EU is unthinkable.  They are wrong. We can leave the EU.  We would prosper outside as a free and independent country, trading with every part of the world, as we have always done. See Britain outside the EU Of Course we Can Leave - our Parliament is Sovereign We can leave the EU, because no UK Government can bind its successor.  We are subject to EU rules only because UK legislation says that we are. Statutes are passed through Parliament to implement each EU treaty.  These statutes require UK judges to have regard to EU law in making their judgements. Repeal this UK legislation, and we are free. EU law no longer applies to us. The debate with the EU would be about how best to manage our leaving, not whether we can leave.  We don't have to pay anything to leave.  In fact we will stop paying into the EU budget – more and more every year. There is a procedure for leaving the EU in the Lisbon Treaty, but no sovereign nation would use it in practice. Treaties can be repudiated (ask the Germans). The Lisbon Treaty procedure requires permission from a majority of countries and MEPs. The leaving country is not allowed to take part in the discussion of the details of leaving, such as who bears any costs. Having left, the country remains bound by EU rules for two years. Having decided to leave, who would be so spineless as to accept so one-sided a deal? The Lisbon Treaty affects the UK because an Act of our Parliament says so. If we repeal the Act, then we are not subject to the leaving procedure. How would we Leave? The actual steps of leaving could be as follows: • Repeal the European Communities Act and its amending acts which brought in subsequent EU treaties. • Stop paying contributions into the EU budget.  • Repeal the Human Rights Act and withdraw from European Court of Human Rights. UK courts could then no longer refer to foreign jurisdictions in their decisions - just British law and precedent. • There are thousands of UK laws based on EU Directives. It would be impossible to repeal them all at once. We should pass a series of Enabling Acts as vehicles for amending EU-related laws, and set up a Parliamentary group to review them over 2-3 years. Their brief would be to reduce the burden of regulation substantially and remove the influence of EU Directives. An Enabling Act each year would revise those laws which had been considered by the group. Businesses would be free to create more jobs.  • Negotiate a free trade agreement after we have left - once we give them a fait accompli it would be in their interests to regularise trade. WTO rules would prevent discrimination against us, as would self-interest - we are a big market for EU countries. • Negotiate our own free trade deals with the growing countries of China, India, the Far East, South America and the US – deals to increase the trade of Britain, not the EU • Notify the EU that we are resuming control over our 200-mile fishing limits, reviving what is left of our fishing industry • Replace the Common Agricultural policy with a policy which helps British farmers produce what we want at affordable prices We Can Leave the European Union - and Still Trade Successfully with Them

And Finally, a Thought from our former Prime Minister "Of course, Britain could survive outside the EU...We could probably get access to the single market as Norway and Switzerland do..."

Moyra Melons' 'My God' Ear Rings.

When Moyra Melons met her husband on a summer night. She wondered about her rather large earrings. She thought they went well with her rather exquisite white crop top, but had a nagging feeling that they might have been a little too big and showing against the delicately cut white crop top. When her husband showed up he was pleasantly surprised too.

"My word," he said smiling. "When you said they were big and dangly; you were not kidding about darling."

"No," she replied coyly. "I feel a little self-conscious with them bouncing about. People might think I'm showing off." Moya's retro British modesty always come to the fore when she spoke of her earrings.

"Oh, mere trifles," replied her delighted husband. "Let them know you have big earrings and are not ashamed of them."

"I feel as though everyone is looking at me," she added needing reassurance.

"That's because they are darling. I saw you coming around the corner twenty seconds beforehand."

She looked perplexed. "How?"

"Well let's go home and I'll explain why" he replied with a nervous twitch in his eye. He was coming over in a hot flush again.

"Oh dear," replied Moyra. "Let us get you home where you can calm down and explain."

She managed to get her excitable husband home, but he did not calm down and she did get a vague inkling of what he meant by seeing her twenty seconds before she came around the corner. Moyra could not work out what it had to do with large bouncy earrings.

  

Meeting Boudicca

The Last Days of Thunder Child 

Could There Be Life On Other Planet "Full Documentry"

Great documentary that stirs the imagination and tells of exciting projects of the future. One that wants to find planets in the 'Goldilocks Zone' of a star system. Not too hot - not too cold. Just right for carbon based life forms.

Why Pussy Riot Russian Girls Went Too Far.

There is nothing wrong with criticising their President if they want to express this and there was nothing wrong with their stage act. However, the Cathedral was not their venue. They did not have permission to do such a thing in this place and they are showing disrespect for the religious people who use the place.

I'm not religious, but if I wanted to protest or speak out against someone; why would I choose someone elses home or property to make such a statement. Why break into a church, mosque or synagogue to have a whinge at a political leader. They played into the hands of the person they had a pop at. They are so stupid to do things in this way. What would you, the reader, do if they set up shop in your garden? 

There is nothing wrong with protesting and voicing an opinion, but if you want to disrespect everyone else, while making a point, and ride rough shod over their property to do this, then I believe you are very wrong indeed. The prison sentence is correct in my opinion, though it has given these silly ladies much fame. Perhaps their protest deserves to be heard, but the people who worship and take their belief to this Russian Cathedral deserve to be heard too. They should enjoy the liberty of their belief without fools violating it. Go somewhere else and protest - the venue the Pussy Riot Girls chose was extremely inappropriate.

Lookie Here - War of the Worlds Audio Book - Free

The audio book of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds - listen to the exciting account of Martians invading Earth during the time of Queen Victoria's British Empire. Science Fiction/Alternate Reality - a story as entertaining now as it was in 1899 when it was first written and published. My favourite part is the H.M.S. Thunder Child section when the heroic ironclad attacks three Martian tripods.