Wahoo, hot opinions so far. Well people, the EU is obviously set for trading power and competes with the US. In doing so, we all are covered under the deals and argeements that are signed, even if we don't like we are in it. For those who are against the EU business block, get organised and protect against the June 4th election. Am sorry but the reality is we here in UK are dragged into the main land Europe. To those who want to vote, careful with giving away your job!!

AT LAST! how many years have i listened to people complaining about the state of the country and then not bother to go to the polls? how many years have i listened to the country moaning about the state of the corrupt government yet watching from the side lines rather than act. how many years have i watched industry in this country go down the pan whilst the government do nothing (just look at britains car industry and now its banking & insurance industry)The conservatives were ousted by public vote after 16 years when we got sick and tired of opening the papers or turning on the tv and hearing about another scandel that they had caused. we dont have to vote one of the more well known parties labour, conservative, lib dem etc just because your friend or neighbour is.you have a voice, use it or stop moaning. if your not sure what the other parties are proposing then do some research we have the internet, and at last i seem to have read that some people (namely you lot) are not gonna be led down the path we are currently treading. we have a labour government at present but we still seem to live a tory life of shut up be quiet, keep the door shut and be thankfull for your lot. im not telling anybody who to vote for you seem to have some common sense, but i am saying dont shut up and be quiet, dont settle for what we have and dont turn a blind eye. you have a vote be proud to use use it dont lose it and if you still dont know who to vote for then vote tactically just to get these beaurocrats of our backs. well done everybody...

If you want 'In' with all that that entails, then vote 'Con' 'Lab' or 'Lib'. If you want 'Out' and prefer that we retain our independance then put your X against UKIP, or BNP.

UKIP!!

What the E.U. is, is irretrievably Socialist. Just as there would never be a Socialist Government if England had it's own Parliament, and Britain would not have had a Socialist Administration if Scotland were confined to it's own Parliament, then so is Europe a Political entity with an entrenched Socialist majority. If you can't win an election honestly, buy in the votes you need. In GB's case the Political class decided it wasn't going to win a straight vote - and it still wouldn't, hence no vote on Lisbon - we didn't vote for a United State of Europe. But we "got it" just as we've got majority voting and the rest of the European anaesthesia of cheap money, equity withdrawal schemes, property bubble...indeed, "The Celtic Tiger Economies"....more like a scrawny, mewling tabby of no consequence and no means. Well People, you let it happen to you, indeed it was fun; but as someone once said "Get out of that!". And whilst you are planning to skin a few MPs alive and make do with electively torching the rest in due course, what is this Government, that was deeply complicit in the Financial doom that has come to pass going, to do to our Parliament? It must be self-evident that the revelations about MPs' expenses was what the Bomb Disposal Squadron call a "controlled explosion", i.e. it was meant to happen now, not in a few months time. None of the guilty are exactly queuing up to quit Parliament now, are they? Yes, they've got a financial interest in staying but think what would happen in a General Election held in 21 days from now. Ooooh, yes! But it ain't going to happen. "They", whoever they are have decided that the sooner it was done then the sooner we would all forgive and forget and go back to the usual game of "Buggin's turn". The price has been a few sacrificial "Old Goats" like Gorbals Mick, Steen, Morley et al and a more rigorous expenses system. Ha ha ha. The Houses of Parliament sold you out to Europe and have been being paid off ever since. They would be in deep doo doo if there was a Parliament of Independents (not a load of broken-down ex-celebs, please). It is a truism to say that Parliament can do anything ie one Parliament cannot bind a subsequent one. With the Parliament Acts, the Lords of whatever provenance have a limited affect, and if necessary can be swamped just as Lloyd-George threatened to do. A good, "new" majority could snip the big red seal off the EU just like that. Our Army has been released from it's role in Iraq, Afghanistan is a side show now that the Taleban are fighting the Pakistan Army (and, anyway, 22 Regiment SAS have gone into Afghanistan so shares in the Undertaking business there will see a sharp rise) so we can bring the Army back in case Angela has a yen to send in the 2nd SS Opal Division now that Mandelson has saved it from the despised Americans. As Angela said on the news tonight, "it was all the fault of the Americans, anyway". Funny that, but I think another West German Chancellor said that about 65 years ago and it didn't do him any good, either.
So, there you have it folks. You allowed Europe to happen and you're going to have to put it right again, for the third time.

Mr Dineen, (post No. 29) Our politicians have effectively already voted to "fight" alongside the French, who famously pulled out of NATO as De Gaulle didn't like Americans, or anyone else really. Our Materiel is or will be comnpletely inconsistent with the US equipment. So you've got what you asked for early. The only trouble is that if I were going to have a s@#$% with someone, say North Korea, I would rather do it with the US carrying a big stick behind me. Given the Germans have a bad track record of allowing people who turn out to be less than friendly have unlimited access to sensitive equipment and information, perhaps Iran.....and who says the Boxheads have forgotten the War? We might have wound up the Ministry for Economic Warfare after the surrender, but the descendants of Herr Rommel, and not a few of the original OKW, didn't pack it in and are still fighting. Ask Angela if she wants to share her piggy-bank savings with you for the good of Europe, her response is a minute-by-minute replay of the first 20 minutes of "Saving Ryan's Privates". Same war, different weapons....same Allies.

It doesn't matter whether you support the EU or not, the facts are that we are proud to think of ourselves as a democracy and therefore all British people should be given the opportunity to vote on who governs us, at present we have an EU that was voted for only as a common market, just a trading partner, but never have we been given the vote to allow a foreign government the right to set our laws and impose their will on our truly elected government. When a referendum was proposed not so long ago to give us a vote, it was withdrawn as it was felt that the vote would be against the EU membership, isn't this Banana State politics?? So vote for a referendum and protect our democracy whether you support the EU or not.
Sartanared

What does anyone think UKIP can do? They can not take the UK out of the EU only a British government can do that. And absolutely NOTHING UKIP can do about it. And it does seem a bit stupid yelling and shouting about not wanting to be "ruled by all these corrupt, gutless, faceless bureaucrats in Brussels but our own people here in Westminster" when they have been there in Brussels lounging around with rest of them. And certainly not prancing up and down the corridors of Westminster thst is for sure. So I assume they include themselves in ths rather lurid description. They have been there long enough to qualify. Hardly a good character reference is it? I cannot understand all these anti-EU rants. Life over there is FAR superior and happier than here. Their standard of living, their roads,their health service, education, their pensions, they have far less senseless crime and they don't all have governments controlling their every movement, what they can do, say, think or wear. The EU is not the problem. The people who have ruined this country and taken away freedoms and created the greatest spied upon country in Europe are right here among us they are the "lords and masters" everybody should be scared of. Blaming the EU suits them very well and takes the spotlight off them. My opinion is that IF this country is taken out of the EU (though I am pro-EU) people will soon find out that they have been blaming the wrong ones. It will be too late then to change minds. When people are lining up to take the ferry across the channel to join all the happier ones who had more sense than be lead by the nose by the likes of UKIP.

IT Does Make A Difference if you vote UKIP but even more the BNP as there is already a strong right wing block in Europe capable of making the ruling Lab/Con block back down & listen to the peoples. Let them know we mean business!

For me there seems to be only one choice the BNP – why? They are the only party that has a strong policy regarding the current uncontrolled immigration that is swamping our already overcrowded country and how to deal with those that have overstayed their welcome, visas or appeals for settlement whilst arriving here illegally. Lets face it the Labour Government has given up on this and freely admits they don’t know how many there are and can not trace asylum seekers and people who have over stayed their visas, even to the point of declaring an amnesty for certain groups! Arranged marriages from places like Pakistan and the importation of the bride and her dependent family make a mockery of what little is left of our border ‘security’. Why is it that Asylum seekers who pitch up in Europe have only 1 destination in mind – UK? Because we are such a soft touch and this is encouraged or demanded by the EU/Brussels central government. Just wait for when Turkey eventually joins!

The Conservatives did little better during their 16 years in office and like the Labour Government it too turned a blind eye to what was becoming the biggest topic of conversation from the Man in the Street.

Lib Democrats will not do any better and the Green Party is well – just green…
I am not an evangelising Christian, in fact I am strictly non religious but I urge you to look at the youtube link below, the statistics quoted are very disconcerting; even if they are only 50% accurate…

Immigration and political correctness are the biggest threats to our democracy in UK and our way of life, both are severely under threat from the mega regime in Brussels. In fact I find it ironic that for much of the latter half of the 20th century the West fought a campaign against the communist Eastern Block countries behind the Iron Curtain, much of it in the name of ‘Democracy’. Yet we find ourselves being swallowed up in this conglomeration run largely by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels that and with the due complicity of Labour are pushing through the Treaty of Lisbon will forever remove the right of the British people to vote on matters relating to British sovereignty. Is this not what all the fuss was about with the “Commies under the Beds” propaganda in the late 40s, 50s and 60s?

So it is the BNP for me!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-3X5hIFXYU