Originally Posted by thommy

I will tell you how people like paul understand the EU:

let´s say an Asutrian company delivers jam to UK and writes on it "Marmelade" the brits came up with an EU law that this have to be ruled.
and yes the EU did it and in the complete EU it is obligate to write "Marmelade" on marmelade and Jam or confiture on Jam.
And this even when the austrian german does not have a word for Jam or confiture. they only knew it as marmelade but they accepted it.

when the EU agreed to take the decimal system as a common measure, the British were completely angry with the EU because they calculate everything in inches.

if the majority of the EU would have agreed to take over the english system (which nobody knows), the EU would be something good. but since they didn't do that, the brits call it unfair and expose it to their own laws.

in short: as long as everything is done the way the brits want it to be, such a community is good from a british point of view. as soon as they have to move their ass themselves and adapt, it just doesn't work.

so I personally think it's good if they go out of the EU. I'm only afraid in 5-6 years they'll beg on their knees to be allowed to go back in because they'll have noticed that 50 million little people are too easily overlooked in a global market of 8000 million people.