Do you think that many people have a concern that the EU as a whole system is democratic or not or is it transparent or not what are your views on it?
I’m openly Euro sceptic I do not like a lot of things about the European Union. I don’t like the way that people do not know who the members of your European Parliament are nobody I know knows who their MEPs are.
There’s no accountability or no responsibility where any MEPs are concerned they don’t know who their constituents are their constituents don’t know who they are whereas an MP in our House of Commons everyone knows who the MP is and MP knows who their constituents.
There is no accountability and responsibilities the whole parliament moves for one week in a month to Strasbourg from Brussels the whole Parliament moves it is ridiculous what a waste of time and money can you imagine if we here in Westminster had to move to Scotland every month for a week or two to Scotland every month for a week it would be ridiculous to do that the fact that the euro is an absolute disaster
one size cannot fit all thank God we didn’t join the Euro.
Schengen I used to think that Britain lost out on tourists and business visas by not being a member of Schengen now because of the migration crisis and security reasons we are fortunate not to be in Schengen so whichever way you look at it the European Union has a lot that is wrong with it but despite all that I still believe we should remain as part of the European Union and of course, you hear the argument that the European Union tells us what to do and all our laws are formed by the European Union and all the red tape that comes to European Union there is a absolute hindrance to our business well let me tell you as a businessman this Brexiteers it is who talked about all this have never run a business in their life let me tell you which business has Boris Johnson ever run which business has Michael Gove ever run and they talk about red tape in business, I can assure you I built cobra beer from scratch not thinking about red tape from the European Union every day I was able to build it because we actually have one of the most open economies in the world over here and we have the number in would investment in the world here right here in the UK because we’re an open economy the hurdles that you face as a business person and not a European Union red tape and regulation the hurdles here are our homegrown regulations red tape like our tax our tax system is so complex every year it increases our tax code is thousands of pages that’s nothing to do with the European Union that’s our own taxation our planning laws our housing rules that’s all our own nothing to do with the European Union so this is absolute nonsense yes it is some of the red tape we don’t like but it doesn’t stop us from being successful and then they say well all the laws are made by the European Union that is again absolute nonsense.
In reality, we do what we want to if we want to so we’re part of the European Union but we’re not part of the euro we will never join the euro we’re part of the European we’re not part of Schengen we will not join Schengen so where is our loss of sovereignty and do
we measure our roads and kilometres we measure in miles because we choose the European Union cannot tell us to do that so where is our loss of sovereignty this is absolute nonsense again in practical terms that is absolute nonsense our Parliament is always sovereign at the end of the day we can do whatever we want to and I’ve given you the fundamental examples that in terms of United States of Europe there’s a scaremongering that oh it’s gonna be further unification and there’s gonna be a United States of Europe believe you me there will never be a United States of Europe and if there is one we’re not gonna be a member of that United States of Europe a European army we have our own independent army we’re not going to join any European army we’re part of NATO so again there’s a scaremongering that oh our army is gonna be subsumed into European Union Army this is nonsense when it boils down to it this country does what it wants to Europe can never ever tell us what to do.
I don’t know what world these Brexiteers are living. If they don’t realize the fundamentals you cost us around 350 million pounds will be which is enough for building new NHS hospitals every week and we get less than half of this money back this figure of three hundred and fifty million pounds a week that we contribute to the European Union is such a misleading data what about the fact that the 350 million pounds is a gross figure we get money back from it the net figure is one hundred and fifty million pounds a week.
We actually contribute just over 8 billion pounds a year to the European Union that’s the actual figure and it’s a slowly dying block when we join it about trade basic is around 67% like Norway sig is only around 43% so this is basically what is the point of joining it which is already in declining state and there’s and why can’t basically like Switzerland and Norway which are not in the EU but they’re still basically prospering much higher, for example, Switzerland GDP is almost doubled in UK’s okay these comparisons are so misleading as part of the European Union we’re part of a 500 million strong area it is the biggest trading bloc in the the world if our percentage of trade with the European Union as a percentage of our overall trade has declined it’s because we’re also doing business with other parts of the world which have been emerging since the Europeans started the emerge rise of China the rise of India the rise of Asia all that is happening so of course we will be doing business with those countries as well as your opinion as an a percentage of trade your opinion will fall that does not mean that the European Union it still isn’t right now as we speak 50 percent of our trade 44 percent of our exports 55 percent of our imports are with the European Union now even if that’s declining that’s still a huge figure.
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