On Wed, 06 Jul 2016 23:36:04 -0700, harry wrote:

So lets just think about what has happened in the EU since the British
people voted to leave the EU....

This should be interesting...

1) The EU has now stated it will spend ‚¬1 TRILLION on building an EU
Armed Forces and all states must merge their armed forces into an EU
army and navy under the command of France and Germany. (Cameron said
that wouldn't happen)

No, it hasn't.
The Common Security and Defence Policy, established in 2000, has been
nudged back into life, and some of the bits of cooperation between
countries that never actually reached reality might do.
https://europa.eu/globalstrategy/en/security-defence

2) The EU has sent us a bill for an extra £34 Billion stating it is to
fill a black hole in the budget (Cameron said he would not pay the last
on of £1.7 billion but he did)

That £34bn bill was "news" in November 2014.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...u/11255493/UK-
faces-34bn-bill-for-blackhole-in-EU-budget.html

By the time of the referendum debate, it'd already been rowed back to a
£20bn "black hole", and even that was pretty much complete ********.
https://fullfact.org/economy/20bn-bl...e-eu-finances/

3) The EU are to implement directives that could destroy our shipping
industry if we do a deal that involves staying in the single market

That was "news" in November 2015.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/n...port/11979263/
Britains-10bn-maritime-industry-under-threat-from-EU-rules.html

It was ******** then, too. Why on earth would a single market "destroy"
our shipping industry? Is our shipping industry somehow inherently
uncompetitive with other EU countries?

4) France is in the middle of its biggest civil uprising since the
French revolution due to Labour Law Riots, wasn't the EU supposed to
protect them?

That's been going on since May.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016...kes-thousands-
of-dock-workers-set-off-smoke-bomb/

B'sides, don't you think it kinda shoots the whole "EU want to make
everybody the same" logic in the foot, given that this is the French
government looking to roll back their existing caps on working hours etc?

5) Juncker has now push forward plans to complete the monetary union
and 'ALL' states will be forced to join the Euro.

Apart from the subtle detail that the UK had always had a non-negotiable
opt-out from the Euro, this is nothing new - it goes back to at least
2014.
https://ec.europa.eu/priorities/deep...-and-monetary-
union_en

6) Our member states will be forced to scrap their national banks

Umm, no. Countries in the Eurozone come under the ECB, but that's it. And
we all know that reality the UK could never be forced to join the Euro,
and would only ever do so if the UK political will was there.

7) All states must agree to taxation by the Commission.......and they
propose a tax ID for everyone and banks must disclose private details

It makes a lot of sense to have a single tax ID that uniquely identifies
people across the entire EU. It's no more than that. And banks - even in
"secretive offshore havens" already share "private details" with tax
authorities all around the world. There are no plans whatsoever for the
EU to raise taxes directly off individuals anywhere.

8) Whilst meanwhile here in the UK the FTSE 100 is at 6,577.83 the
highest it has been since August 2015.

The FTSE100 is mostly multinationals who are benefitting massively from
the much weaker pound. Now look at the FTSE 250.

9) If #EUreferendum had been a General Election, Leave would have won
the biggest parliamentary majority in British political history!

Impossible to say, because the results weren't broken down by
constituency.

And yet we have 30,000 plus people marching through London saying that
we have made the wrong decision to leave the corrupt EU. It really does
defy all logic!

No, what defies all logic is that you actually believe that list of
complete ********, misunderstandings, and old non-news.