Comments by "Nigel Johnson" (@nigeljohnson9820) on "UK's Electoral Commission fines Brexit campaign group" video.

  1. stoufer2000 it is not really surprising, the EU has sucked the UK economy dry. The UK is effectively bankrupt. It should have been in receipt of money from the EU budget from day one, but it suited both the UK government of the time and the EU to perpetuate the delusion that the UK economy was healthy. It was not healthy when we joined because, unlike Germany, the UK was paying off the cost of WWII. When we joined the UK had assets, these have been sold over the years to fund our EU membership. Now the only this can continue is by borrowing and increasing UK debt. The remain camp has consistently failed to grasp this fact, expecting our continued membership to be the same as it always was. In practice the UK has no choice to leave, as it cannot afford to remain. Outside the EU it standards a chance of recovery, but only if the UK government makes the right choices. Foreign oners of UK assets such as utilities and critical infrastructure may find the good times are over, since it is vital the UK stops leaking money overseas. The UK must become more self sufficient. That means EU imports must be reduced. Tariffs and internal standards will be required to protect the home market while UK industry has a chance to recover. The UK is far too dependent on financial services and banking, hopefully the EU will solve this problem by attempting to steal this poisoned chalice. With luck they will do as much damage to our competitors economies as they have done to ours. The UK should certainly nolonger attempt to act like the world's policeman. For years now it has been involved in expensive overseas military adventures. Following the reverse of the Roosevelt advice by carrying an increasingly small stick and speaking very loudly. The UK needs time to rebuild it's military capabilities. There is a lesson to be learned from the nation's defeated in the last world war. They made money from not being allowed to have a military and not getting involved in costly conflicts, a lesson the EU seems to have recently forgotten. The important thing is for the UK to become profitable again and this will take time. But it will only happen if government makes the right decisions and the agenda of vested interests is resisted. The above should put pay to the myth that brexit was about Britain reliving past glories, in fact it is about survival.
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  2. Iazzaboyce you are right, the UK as wasted thousands of billions on the EU, essentially financing its competitors. At the time we joned, it would have been far better to have embrassed the commonwealth and done all we could to encourage trade with that. The European ideologues in the uk government were taken in by the eurocrates and bankers who wanted a federal Europe. This fools betrayed their country for a flawed dream that is doomed to failure, a dystopian nightmare.
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  3. Somewhat ironic given the amount that the government spent on project fear, in support of the remain campaign.
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  4. stoufer2000 why is it so unreasonable to want to regain control of our country from what is effectively an occupying power. It is worth repeating that the UK population had little or no say in the level of integration that the EU has forced upon the UK. The UK is effectively rule by unelected officials in a foreign country, with the prospect that yet more control will be transferred to eurocrates. An analysis of the history of our trade deficit with the EU shows that membership has never been of financial benefit to the UK. For this we have paid a not inconsiderable fee for the privilege of having this trade deficit. Add to this we have been forced to obey EU rules and regulations that have cemented this status quo.
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  5. Alan Marr I did, combining our visible and invisible trade with the EU, we still run a trade deficit that runs into tens of billions of pounds per year. That is without taken into account the cost of the cite to the currently. The financial sector expects to take the profits n the good times and leave the tax payer to pick up the bill during the bad. Since the last financial crash small savers have seen their nest eggs eroded by the difference between interest on their savings and the inflation rate. They have effectively been robbed by a far greater amount than the EU intended to do to Greek savers.
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