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The trouble is, countries employ a floating currency as an alternative to being more efficient, working harder, exporting more and consuming less. Allow the currency to drift and you don't have break into a sweat. Working harder (etc) and keeping your currency strong is tougher. It's a...

Yes, I did get a bit overwrought at the end didn't I? In fairness though, I have said in a previous post that there are good arguments against the EU but that, in my view, most people's criticisms are based on a simple distrust of foreigners. Teresa May is just the latest of a thousand...

This is in danger of turning into a reasoned debate. Two small points if I may. The European Court you mention has nothing to do with the EU - I believe the only country that has ever withdrawn from its influence was Greece, just after a group of colonels set up a dictatorship. Teresa May was...

You and Peterward both misquote me. Whilst I accept that there are plenty of people - you two perhaps - who have reasoned arguments against the EU I stand by my view that the most common argument against the EU is that it is just a bunch of bloody foreigners trying to order us around. The person...

Regarding your final sentence I am genuinely uncertain how the following post (page 3 of the thread) constitutes a 'snide remark'. I'm entirely happy to be an Englishman. My ancestors came over from Denmark in little boats. My country has no head of state, no army, no parliament and no...

Partly true - even some EU manufacturers assemble in eastern Europe (every Fiat 500 is Polish), but there remains huge manufacturing capacity in West Europe and the reason that Ford and others prefer, say, Belgium to the UK is the fixed exchange rate with the rest of Europe. They know that...

We are now losing inward investment because a non-EU company wanting to open a factory in the union would rather be in the eurozone than outside and subject to the lottery of shifting exchange rates. (Incidentally, one bit of good news on the automotive front is that manufacturers are now...

I'm entirely happy to be an Englishman. My ancestors came over from Denmark in little boats. My country has no head of state, no army, no parliament and no national anthem. It has been in a tight political and economic union for hundreds of years and yet I still feel English. The union of the...