Thank you for your post, Mrs Shillabeer, I shall try to answer your points in turn."1) I hate people and countries who have no idea of my way of life or what affects me, having more control over the way I live than myself, obviously I can't go int detail here, but traffic regulations for example." This is a bit of a mystery. Leaving aside the notion about "people and countries who have no idea of my way of life or what affects me" ("faraway people of whom we know nothing," anyone?), what traffic regulations, exactly, do the EU control? I think you will have to go into some detail if this is to begin to be a credible argument. How, for example, do such countries have more control over your way of life than you do? Do you pine for the abolition of the Working Hours Directive, or the requirement of employers to provide proper paid leave? Or maybe you'd prefer your beach hut (see below) to nestle above a stinking, polluted beach..."2) I hate the idea that the EU takes precedence over our own laws."In short, it doesn't: we agree common laws jointly with the EU, in fact "Britain had far greater influence in Brussels since 1973 than has been recognised. For decades the UK was a driving and liberalising force when it came to the Single Market, enlargement, competition and trade, as well as foreign policy." (https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2018/07/09/british-influence-in-brussels-had-been-far-greater-than-recognised/). And a more balanced estimate of the influence of the EU on UK law can be found here: https://fullfact.org/europe/uk-law-what-proportion-influenced-eu/, which suggests that EU influence is greatly overestimated. "3) I hate the way our fishing industry was decimated. "So do I, but I think you'll find that it was the UK fishing industry to that has decimated our fishing industry by overfishing - cod, for example. (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/06/ukip-british-fishing-westminster-brussels-brexit)"4) i hate how EU law stops some of our clean air re schools from improvement."This really is bizarre and the reverse of the truth: the EU has set the air quality standards that the UK has continually flouted - for example, ClientEarth has taken the government to court no fewer than three times over its failure to act on atmospheric pollution, and defeated it each time. And still Westminster drags its feet (https://www.clientearth.org/)."on a more personal level. I used to own a beach hut. Much to my surprise 'rates' were paid to the EU."Eh? Can you enlarge on this? As it stands, it doesn't make a lot of sense.I look forward to reading your response.
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