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Hello, Britain.
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This EU referendum has been made to look really rather confusing,
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but it’s actually all quite simple.
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Britain, as a part of the EU, is in a free trade area that spreads from Iceland to Turkey.
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Free trade is great as it makes trade easier.
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However, not all countries in this free trade area are EU members,
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and no one is proposing we would ever leave the trade bloc if we exit the EU -
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least of all Germany, who earns billions selling us their cars.
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Britain voted to join the EEC back in 1973
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when it looked like regional trade blocs were the future.
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This was long before the internet or mass container shipping,
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and the Soviet empire was in full swing.
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Technologies have since made the idea of local trading unions
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completely obsolete, as it is now as cheap and easy to do business anywhere in the world.
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Britain’s future is way beyond the EU.
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Remaining an EU member means we can’t negotiate favourable trade or business deals,
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we’re stuck with whatever the unelected EU commissioners think is best.
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In the past decade, our trade with the EU has fallen from 55 percent to 45,
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and this idea that we must merge our political institutions for the sake of this shrinking minority of our commerce
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is just frankly stupid.
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But is Britain too small to compete?
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Britain is the fifth largest economy in the world, has the fourth largest military budget,
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is a founding member of NATO,
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a permanent seat holder on the United Nations Security Council, the G8 and the G20,
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has the world’s most widely spoken language,
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the world’s best universities,
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and has a cracking history of maritime trade and independence.
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If Britain isn’t big enough to compete on the world stage, who the bloody hell is?
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Those wanting Britain to remain in the EU are using uncertainty and doubt to spread fear.
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They claim that each British household could lose as much as £3000 every year by leaving.
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But even if we pretend this idiotic claim were true,
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would £750 really be all it takes to purchase your democratic rights?
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Is the ability to hire and fire our lawmakers, democratic freedoms fought for over hundreds of years,
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now only worth two month’s rent for a studio apartment in Glasgow and a packet of Wotsits?
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If 28 unelected British plutocrats tried to pull this crap,
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I’m sure we’d tell them to bugger off, too.
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However you vote, everything is going to change.
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The EU Commission has made it quite clear that they are on the path
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to closer financial, legal and border integration.
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Staying on that bus will lead to us having to ditch the pound sterling, our entire common law judicial system and our borders
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for the euro, bench trials and Schengen in due course.
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The Union is of course desperate to maintain its control,
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but I don’t think that a few measly threats mean we need to commit our future to this authoritarian regime.
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Besides, we have been getting on wonderfully well trading, emigrating to and allying with other countries
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without needing to give their government control over our laws.
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So let’s use this one chance to wish the EU the very best,
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be their trading partners, business colleagues, military allies and friends,
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but let them know we’ll govern ourselves from here on out,
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thanks all the same.
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