The EU exit or not Part2

All I want is some facts, but the truth is there are no facts. While staying in would be the easy option we must look to the future not the past thats all been and gone. Its where we want Britain to be not just in the next few years but in the future.

So what are the points up for discusion..

1. Welfare changes

The government wants to ban new arrivals from claiming benefits such as tax credits and social housing for a period of four years in order to reduce benefit tourism and immigration. The plan has been met with strong resistance from leaders in the Baltic and eastern Europe, but David Cameron has made it clear that the welfare changes are an "absolute requirement in the renegotiation".

2. Opt-out clause

Cameron has long campaigned for an exclusion from the EU's commitment to ever closer union. "British people are not happy with the status quo, and frankly, neither am I," he said earlier this year. "There's a concern that we are being drawn towards an ever-closer union and that may be what others want, but it is not for us."

3 . Protect the City

The Prime Minister wants to free British businesses from excessive interference from Brussels and protect the City of London from future EU measures that could limit its freedom of manoeuvre.

4. Greater veto powers

The government is also pushing for a "red card" system that would give national parliaments greater powers to block EU legislation.

5.Safeguard position outside the euro

Cameron wants to ensure that future changes to the single market agreed by eurozone countries cannot be forced on states that are not members, reports

So in order too see things from both sides...

Better OUT

Jobs

– If Britain withdrew from the EU it would preserve the benefits of trade with the EU by imposing a UK/EU Free Trade Agreement.

– The EU sells a lot more to us than we sell to them. In 2014 there was a trade deficit of over £50bn, with a current account deficit of nearly £100 billion. It seems unlikely that the EU would seek to disrupt a trade which is so beneficial to itself.

– Moreover, the Lisbon Treaty stipulates that the EU must make a trade agreement with a country which leaves the EU.

– World Trade Organization (WTO) rules lay down basic rules for international trade by which both the EU and UK are obliged to abide. These alone would guarantee the trade upon which most of those 3 million jobs rely.

Trade barriers

-The EU has free trade agreements with over 50 countries to overcome such tariffs, and is currently negotiating a number of other agreements.

-EU now exempts services and many goods from duties anyway. In 2009 UK charged customs duty of just 1.76% on non-EU imports. This is so low that the EU Common Market is basically redundant as a customs union with tariff walls.

Better IN

As I see it business wise we would suceed in or out.