Brexit. Why do Brits want Out of the EU?

When I have to live on a very small income it seems damn unfair that other countries do get part of my money.

EU malipunated the election in Austria.

Why? That is a good question. How is it in Germany?

Our problem as a country is that most of us do not want to join the euro and we wish to stay aloof from the common frontiers of the free-travel Schengen area. This makes our relationship with the EU fraught with tension and trouble. It is like joining a football club, then announcing you have no intention of either playing in or watching matches, and think the club subscription is too large. You just want to eat meals in the club cafe, which you could do anyway without joining the club.

The politics of Europe is being transformed – and some would say damaged – by the European project. Traditional centre-left and centre-right parties on the continent that mirror Labour and Conservative are being swept away or marginalised by new insurgent parties on the left and right, often with more extreme views, that pick up on the anger and frustration with the EU’s bureaucratic-establishment approach.

...12 years in the "standing alarm force" as a reservist ...

Vote Leave, Britain Stronger in Europe and the Treasury have all been accused of misleading voters in the EU referendum campaign in a report by a cross-party House of Commons committee.

The Treasury committee was particularly scathing about the leave camp’s flagship assertion that exiting the EU would save £350m a week that could be spent on the NHS, saying that the public should discount the claim and that Vote Leave’s decision to persist with it was “deeply problematic”.

The 83-page report, agreed unanimously by a committee that includes MPs on both sides of the referendum campaign, will make awkward reading for all the major players.

Andrew Tyrie, the Conservative MP who chairs the committee, said: “The arms race of ever more lurid claims and counter-claims made by both the leave and remain sides is not just confusing the public – it is impoverishing political debate.”

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The billboard-size posters on grass banks overlooking the east and westbound carriageways of the M40, between the M25 and High Wycombe, include the official Vote Leave website address.

Vote Leave campaign director Dominic Cummings said on Twitter he thought the posters had been made by “dummies on our side” and rejected the idea that the insensitive reference to the second world war was part of a smear campaign by the Remain camp.

A spokesperson for Vote Leave said they were “not our posters. We were made aware of them late last night. Staff in the area are endeavouring to have them removed.”

But the posters were still in place on Sunday, in the view of thousands of bank holiday travellers.

[...]On being asked by an audience member about a Brexit poster that mentioned "zee Germans", the historian said the analogy of Hitler with the European Union as "preposterous".

Mr MacGregor added:"The other thing of course is a total failure to consider our history in the same way, and look at the aspects of British history that need to be re-examine before we are complaining and accuse other countries of aggressive behaviour.

"It rings quite strangely to the rest of the world to hear Britain complaining of other countries aggressively invading anywhere."

If the British people decide to stay in the EU on 23 June, the legal process of transforming Britain’s new relationship with the EU will begin and the first step will be treaty change. The real risk is not remaining in the EU, it is a leave vote, which could perpetuate the disintegration of the entire European Union.