Vote to Leave the EU

LET'S DO OUR DUTY!  Take Back Control - Vote Leave on 23rd June, 2016

Cameron wants Turkey to join the EU. Do you?

With just a day to go, it’s clearer now more than ever that the only way to take back control of our laws, our money and our borders is to Vote Leave.

 

On BBC1 Question Time EU Special at 6.45pm on Sunday 19^th June 2016

David Cameron was not truthful in his desperation to win this campaign and refused to say whether he would veto Turkey’s membership of the EU. 

Government slammed for economic forecast

The Government has received widespread criticism for its report on what would happen to the economy after we leave the EU. The Treasury’s report was dismissed by IN campaigner and First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon who described it as overblown and not credible. Meanwhile, even the pro-EU FT said: ‘more likely, the numbers are just made up’. 

The IN campaign cannot make the positive case for staying in the EU, therefore they have resorted to doing Britain down. The reality is that our economy will thrive after we take back control. We can support British businesses and strike our own trade deals with economies around the world to help drive jobs, growth and prosperity. 

UK can protect women’s rights without accepting supremacy of EU law

The IN campaign claimed women’s rights will be put at risk if we Vote Leave.  This is yet another case of those wanting us to stay in the EU doing Britain down. It is disappointing to see that they have so little faith in themselves and other UK politicians to continue to protect the rights of women after we take back control.

The reality is that the UK took steps to protect women’s rights long before we joined the EU, such as ensuring equal pay for equal work and providing support for women when going through a divorce. After we became a member of the EU, the UK Government legislated for paid maternity leave and protection against sexual harassment in the workplace, all without the help of bureaucrats in Brussels. 

On top of this, the UK has lead the way in promoting and protecting workers rights, and it's deeply misleading to suggest that leaving the EU would put them at risk. Workers’ rights are best protected when there is a parliament that is directly accountable to the people; yet the EU prevents this, with unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats imposing rules and regulations which the British people have no say over. 

London is second only to San Francisco in the world tech stakes, according to EY (Source: Getty) 

London has overtaken New York and Shanghai in a global ranking of top tech cities, thanks to its "incredible entrepreneurial attitude".  The capital is now the second most likely city in the world to create the next big tech giant, according to EY’s annual Attractiveness Survey, behind only San Francisco.

The result moves London up from fourth position last year, closing in on its American west-coast rival.

Index has a new $550m VC fund and its eye on London startups 

“That was unimaginable five years ago,” Caroline Artis, EY’s London market segment leader, told City A.M.

“Financial services remains important, clearly it does, but other services – like business services and tech – are now adding to the things that make London seem attractive to the rest of the world.” 

She added: “It’s incredible testimony to the things that have been going on here. You’ve got this incredible entrepreneurial attitude that seems to have grown over the last few years, definitely encouraged by things like Tech City.” 

Some say London’s tech sector is united against Brexit, but campaigners who want to leave the EU hit back. "It is clear if we vote leave the strengths of London, which have made it the financial capital of the world and which we have in abundance, will help us to grow and prosper further," a spokesman for Vote Leave said. 

"Pro-EU supporters have run a campaign of doing down the British economy but  this makes clear Britain is a world leader with a bright future. If we vote leave and take back control then we can ensure that the environment is best suited to entrepreneurs and liberated from the red tape that holds back start-ups and those unable to lobby in the corridors of Brussels." 

EY, which interviewed nearly 1,500 decision-makers across 440 international companies, found that London continues to be “incredibly attractive” to foreign investors across a range of industries.  The survey revealed 2015 was a record year for foreign direct investment (FDI) into the UK and the capital. During 2015, London secured 406 FDI projects – up seven per cent on 2014 – which created an estimated 7,026 jobs. 

London outperformed all other European cities surveyed. Some 57 per cent of investors named London as being in their top three European cities for FDI, ahead of second-placed Paris with 43 per cent. 

Lord Owen, backing Vote Leave, has dismissed the “voices of doom” warning against Brexit, saying "the sooner the UK can quit the EU, the better; the quicker it began, the less likely the UK was to be “dragged down” should the Eurozone collapse. The former SDP leader accused Downing Street of “manipulating the FTSE 500” to back the Remain campaign.

Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the Labour Party admitted that there is no limit to immigration as long as we are a member of the European Union. 

Dr Chris Leigh of the Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University has debunked claims that science in the UK would suffer if the country leaves the EU.  He pointed to the fact that only about 3% of funding for research at UK universities comes from the EU, through its Horizon 2020 programme.   By contrast, about 45% comes from business and 35% from UK government and not- for-profit sources. 

Collaboration

13 non-EU countries take part in the Horizon 2020 programme and there would be no reason why the UK could not continue to participate.

Alternatively the British government  could meet any shortfall in funding directly from the savings that will be made by not paying into the EU.

Strong Scientific Standing

The UK has 0.9% of the world’s population, but 3.3% of its scientists, who produce 6.9% of the world’s scientific output and 15.1% of the most highly cited papers. Those who argue UK science will suffer ignore the reality of the UK’s strong scientific standing.

 

We have already seen here in the UK the reduction of wages, increasing the wage gap between rich and poor resulting from the burgeoning immigrant population, we have seen how the growth in our GDP, a figure much vaunted by our government, has not kept pace with the growth in our population. This last aspect is not only downplayed by our government but indeed lied about with their proven understatements of how many, by fair means and foul, have come here to grace our green and pleasant land.

 

TRADE unions have slammed the “myth” that Britain’s membership of the European Union boosts workers’ rights. The RMT, ASLEF and the bakers’ union BFAWU last night issued a joint statement explaining why they back Brexit. They attacked David Cameron’s deal to reform Britain’s role in the EU, saying he secured “only very minor changes”. The 28-member bloc “acts overwhelmingly in the interests of big business” instead of ordinary Britons, they added. 

Many in the “Remain” campaign told us that British people can travel to other EU countries to live and work under EU law.  Would British children receive the same benefits and education in Romania or Bulgaria?

Are they likely to receive reciprocal health benefits?  And above all, are the British people fairly served by this Tory Government, fighting so hard to keep Britain in an undemocratic EU, being controlled by thousands of EU rules with prospects of being conscripted into the EU Armed Forces?

 

In a detailed review of the 2015/16 financial year, the influential King’s Fund think-tank found 67% of NHS trusts ended the year on deficit – including 86% of acute hospitals. Some 65% of NHS trust finance directors thought patient care had got worse over the last year, as did 54% of finance heads from clinical commissioning groups, which look after a large chunk of the NHS budget and manage local services. More than half of finance directors expect their trust to end the next financial year in deficit, too, and are “very pessimistic”, the report said.

The LEAVE campaign has pledged the £350 million we save by leaving the EU, to various priorities such as the NHS, which will help alleviate the dire funding problems they face by the end of the next financial year.

Telegraph reported: David Cameron abandoned plans to make Parliament supreme over European courts as ministers admitted the proposals were “unworkable” with Britain in the EU. In a row that overshadowed the Queen’s Speech, the Prime Minister was accused by Iain Duncan Smith, a former Cabinet minister, of “jettisoning” domestic priorities because of his “helter skelter” attempt to win the upcoming EU referendum.

 

The Guardian reported: Rent bills are likely to fall if Britain exits the EU and property will become more affordable to first-time buyers, according to the bodies that represent the UK’s estate agents and landlords. The National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) and the Association of Residential Letting Agents (Arla) said that Brexit would cut levels of immigration and depress future price rises, leaving the average UK house worth £2,300 less in 2018, and £7,500 less in London.

 

The EU intends to implement full economic and financial governance of its member states from Brussels, to create its own armed forces to implement its Foreign and Security Policy, and import millions more migrants from Africa, the Middle East and beyond to form a United States of Europe and after the British Referendum, whatever the result, that project will resume. 

We need to vote LEAVE the EU on Thursday, 23^rd June 2016 and Take Back Control of our borders to stem the EU migration.

 

Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty laid out, for the first time, the means whereby a Member State could leave the EU; however, we might find that there is a two-year negotiation period which could be prolonged indefinitely by unanimous agreement of EU member states. Even if we did manage to leave using Article 50, we could find ourselves with a ‘deal’ that still required us to pay contributions to the EU budget, having to accept a large proportion of EU laws and with open borders to EU citizens.

 

The only sure way for Britain to leave the EU is for our Parliament to repeal the European Communities Act 1972. This would immediately return supremacy of law to our own Parliament and courts and free us from control by the EU. Chaos would not ensue because all EU Directives, which have been transposed into Acts of Parliament, would remain in place. These could then be repealed when needed, leaving what laws we might need to interact with the EU (if it continues to exist).

 

Jean Romsey,  Email: jromsey@yahoo.co.uk   Tel: 023 80760758