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A referendum where the poster I replied to wants anyone who disagrees with him shot? Shoot those that disagree with you in the name of democracy? Can you REALLY not see the problem with this?

You not a big fan of democracy then?

...and lots of Nazi gold... ...allegedly.

Way to ignore the other two. Anyway nobody specifically mentioned the CAP, you specifically said "I love this idea that other countries are going to let us select which bits of the EU we are going to opt into.". I merely pointed out that we already do that, and have a history of doing that.

We opted to still sell beer in pints, we opted not to join the Euro, we opted out of the Schengen Agreement to name but the three most important (starting with THE most important...)

Yes, yes you are.

Switzerland has a large amount of the rest of the world's money in it's banks, that's why it survives. But even Switzerland is doing badly at the moment. They are desperately trying to reduce the value of the Swiss Franc as they can't sell anything abroad and even their tourism is suffering.

It's not that "we've pissed ours up against the wall while they have carefully controlled theirs" at all. Norway have a huge amount MORE oil revenue per capita than we do. A huge amount more. That's like saying doctors have bigger houses than checkout girls because their more careful with...

I was waiting for that one, didn't take many posts. The UK introduced that law. The difference it made was that it forced ALL EU countries to import Carribean bananas (part owned by UK companies) which are long and straight instead of Central American bananas (with no British interests) which...

Very short sighted. You would then have to join the horrendously long "everyone else" queue at other European airports instead of the EU one you currently enjoy. Britain needs the EU. Being out of it would hit trade hugely, not only ours directly, but our interests in the Commonwealth as well...