Dear Sir,
Mr Wilson asserts that “over 80% of local businesses want the UK to remain in the EU.”
Can he provide evidence of this claim beyond the anecdotal? I am not aware of any poll with the businesses of Aycliffe to support such a specific claim.
“Membership gives UK businesses access to the largest market place in the world.” The ONS data from June 2015 states that the UK’s trade with the EU is diminishing; However by adopting FELXCIT as a roadmap we can still access this market.
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/international-transactions/outward-foreign-affiliates-statistics/how-important-is-the-european-union-to-uk-trade-and-investment-/sty-eu.html
He states: “I will be voting for the UK to remain a member.”
That is his democratic right, but unlike the lobby of Westminster where he mostly votes how his party whip decides, irrespective of what his constituents say, he should remember we all will have the right to exercise our own say on what will be the single most important decision in a generation, namely Britain’s sovereign right to govern itself not by unelected officials in Brussels.
He claims that if “we left the European Union” it would be harder to export goods.
Not true: That is addressed by FLEXCIT.
“Those who say we should leave the European Union have the moral duty to tell the British people what ‘out’ looks like. Those campaigning to leave the EU cannot answer that question.”
I will exercise that moral duty and destroy the only tactic the ‘remain’ lobby has, namely FUD (Fear Uncertainty, Disinformation) that we cannot survive outside the EU: I would direct readers to a comprehensive ‘out’ document called FLEXCIT which has been available for some months now which is intellectually robust, factual, accurate and is a credible roadmap for a Britain outside the EU. I would add that we have seen for the last 40 years what ‘in’ looks like so I would challenge Mr Wilson that he now has the moral duty to read and digest this document and if possible provide intellectually robust critique and evidence to refute such a vision of Britain ‘out’ without reversion to the use of clichés, platitudes and FUD
FLEXCIT link:
http://www.eureferendum.com/documents/flexcit.pdf
“Of course the EU needs reform, but we need to be in it to change it”
Mr Wilson strikes me as an educated and intelligent man, so I have a question; has he read the intellectual foundation of the EU commonly known as the acquis communitaire. For the benefit of readers this simply means that once a power or ‘competence’ has been acquired by the commission (the government of the EU) it will never be given back.
And to assert that the EU can be ‘reformed’ is a fantasy. Witness Mr Cameron’s recent pathetic attempts to ‘reform’ and traipse round the EU with his Oliver Twist bowl begging “please sir can I have some more”.
It simply will not happen nor will reform so my final message to Mr Wilson would be “Reform” may be “a process” but it will never be an “event” whether we choose to ‘leave’ or ‘remain’ within such a political construct.   http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN05944/SN05944.pdf
Titan Ananke
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