EU: Should Britain leave?

i also say yes ---we should never have joined in the first pllace it was meant to be a trading market.

evening ron.

If it had stayed as it originally was, purely to assist businesses to flourish without worrying about exchange rates, that would have been fine. When it grew into the United States of Europe , it went a step toooooo far. We do not have the same interests as Germany, France, Italy, Spain and some of the previous Russian states.

The French are in it for what they can get out of it, and will never put their own self interest in 2nd place. Thus it will never work as originally intended.

The Euro can't survive as a currency. We may have been better going to American dollars...but that is not the direction things went. Who knows...we may have been better aligning ourselves with China, as economic partners because it's a growing economy. Europe seems too settled in their ways to make the kind of long-term changes that are needed, if , we are to benefit from any part of this.

You have a perfectly valid opinion there Beth! 

I'm with James on this one - they never should have gone there. Nor should they have dumped trading partnerships with Australia, New Zealand, South Africa & Canada (all English speaking nations!).

Once the decision was made however, I wouldn't have stayed one moment longer than the French burning the trucks of meat sent from Britain. And English fruit ( & almost everything else) not being good enough!!

And if I understand correctly - the fodder being fed to Britains cattle came from France (why??) And how soon after that did the "mad cow disease" start??  Just wondering ---- something smelt fishy and I don't think it was the cattle.