Mark Wadsworth: We're all Europeans now!

Wednesday 5 September 2007

Via my UKIP chums comes another fine example of the EU slowly but steadily chipping away at our national identities.

Henry North London 2.0 said...: Well if thats the case I want to be Swedish right now and have a job there immediately and be able to claim benefits there too.; 5 September 2007 at 14:47
Mark Wadsworth said...: That's the gimmick!

A sensible Citizen's Income scheme would require claimants to have been legally resident in the UK for at least five or ten years to prevent the UK becoming a target for scroungers from around the globe.

So it would discriminate against recent arrivals from the EU. So it would be against EU-law. So, as good as the idea is, we'd have to leave first.

Two birds, one stone.; 5 September 2007 at 16:54
Henry North London 2.0 said...: leave the EU?

Nah too late

In the 1970s maybe but not now

We dont have enough money to leave

all the Oil revenue went on Social security all 44bn of it per year; 6 September 2007 at 11:52
Mark Wadsworth said...: "We don't have enough money to leave"

Membership costs us £50-bn plus in direct costs (which are small) and indirect costs (which are HUGE), see recent Bruges Group pamphlet, I have checked and cross-referenced the figures and if anything they are understating it.; 6 September 2007 at 12:01

Wednesday 5 September 2007