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<blockquote data-quote="Mek" data-source="post: 6739189" data-attributes="member: 121116"><p>Right,these are my opinions and beliefs and I’m not trying to present them as facts.</p><p>I wouldn’t say that left wing and socialist governments have shafted the country and Thatchers government was the cure. I would say that all relatively modern governments have shafted the country in a process that was started by Thatcher and blamed it all on the EU.When she set out to break the unions she threw the baby out with the bath water and broke the countries heavy manufacturing, the steelworks,shipbuilding,car manufacturing, etc.etc. She went instead in favour of the country moving to services all the while buoyed up by the revenues from North Sea oil. To my mind the nations wealth and heritage is based on industry. Services while being lucrative are transient ,a service company can switch its computers off in London on a Friday night and switch them on in Paris,Frankfurt or Dublin on a Monday morning with no noticeable blip in service. I recently had to contact a financial company that has always been based in Edinburgh only to find that they had moved to Dublin. No fanfares ,no razzmatazz,they had just gone. I’m not saying staying in the EU would encourage industrial regrowth ,that ship has sailed and it’s not returning to port.</p><p></p><p>I do believe being a member of the EU has helped with peace. NATO is undoubtedly a deterrent to acts of aggression from countries outside of NATO. But when countries are intertwined socially,politically, scientifically economically in fact almost any kind of “ally” as they are in the EU they are less inclined to war amongst themselves.</p><p></p><p>All the good in the country is not down to the EU just as all the bad is not down to the EU. As I stated in a previous post the country has prospered as a member of the EU not in spite of it , both economically and culturally . The partnership and alliances made within the EU have occurred because of membership. Once we leave the EU we will not be allies but competitors.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mek, post: 6739189, member: 121116"] Right,these are my opinions and beliefs and I’m not trying to present them as facts. I wouldn’t say that left wing and socialist governments have shafted the country and Thatchers government was the cure. I would say that all relatively modern governments have shafted the country in a process that was started by Thatcher and blamed it all on the EU.When she set out to break the unions she threw the baby out with the bath water and broke the countries heavy manufacturing, the steelworks,shipbuilding,car manufacturing, etc.etc. She went instead in favour of the country moving to services all the while buoyed up by the revenues from North Sea oil. To my mind the nations wealth and heritage is based on industry. Services while being lucrative are transient ,a service company can switch its computers off in London on a Friday night and switch them on in Paris,Frankfurt or Dublin on a Monday morning with no noticeable blip in service. I recently had to contact a financial company that has always been based in Edinburgh only to find that they had moved to Dublin. No fanfares ,no razzmatazz,they had just gone. I’m not saying staying in the EU would encourage industrial regrowth ,that ship has sailed and it’s not returning to port. I do believe being a member of the EU has helped with peace. NATO is undoubtedly a deterrent to acts of aggression from countries outside of NATO. But when countries are intertwined socially,politically, scientifically economically in fact almost any kind of “ally” as they are in the EU they are less inclined to war amongst themselves. All the good in the country is not down to the EU just as all the bad is not down to the EU. As I stated in a previous post the country has prospered as a member of the EU not in spite of it , both economically and culturally . The partnership and alliances made within the EU have occurred because of membership. Once we leave the EU we will not be allies but competitors. [/QUOTE]
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