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Why bother with an EU referendum?

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    Why bother with an EU referendum?

    After 2020, all EU members will have to adopt the euro - Telegraph

    By 2020, all but five member states of the EU are due to be euro members and Poland is likely to join by then as well, leaving just the UK, Denmark, Sweden and Bulgaria outside.

    That means that at some point, perhaps shortly after 2020, with the Eurozone constituted as a confederate Single European State and wanting to use the institution of the EU as its institutions — the European Parliament as its confederation-level Parliament, the Commission as its civil service and so on — the residual nugatory non-Eurozone EU will have to be wound up.

    The most likely course is for it to be fused together with the non-EU members of what is called the “European Economic Area” (Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein). The Single European State will set the rules for the Single Market, and the other members of the European Economic Area will be welcome to trade with each other and with the Single European State provided they abide by those rules.

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    All speculation and no fact.
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      #3
      Ever so slightly misleading headline, or was it a typo that they missed out 'new'?
      And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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        #4
        It's all OK.

        It means we can disband parliament and the monarchy, and sell off the palace of Westminster and Buckingham Palace as buy-to-let flats. Who needs democracy

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          #5
          Originally posted by KentPhilip View Post
          It's all OK.

          It means we can disband parliament and the monarchy, and sell off the palace of Westminster and Buckingham Palace as buy-to-let flats. Who needs democracy
          You only need to sell half of the Palace of Westminster as the other half is the House of Lords, your unelected representatives
          Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.

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            #6
            Originally posted by KentPhilip View Post
            It's all OK.

            It means we can disband parliament and the monarchy, and sell off the palace of Westminster and Buckingham Palace as buy-to-let flats. Who needs democracy
            Make sure Liz cleans behind the fridge first.
            The material prosperity of a nation is not an abiding possession; the deeds of its people are.

            George Frederic Watts

            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postman's_Park

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              #7
              Originally posted by speling bee View Post
              Make sure Liz cleans behind the fridge first.
              Make sure Phil gets the curtains cleaned too.
              And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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                #8
                Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post
                Make sure Phil gets the curtains cleaned too.
                Is that a euphemism?
                The material prosperity of a nation is not an abiding possession; the deeds of its people are.

                George Frederic Watts

                http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postman's_Park

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by speling bee View Post
                  Is that a euphemism?
                  No that's a wind instrument.
                  And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by KentPhilip View Post
                    It's all OK.

                    It means we can disband parliament and the monarchy, and sell off the palace of Westminster and Buckingham Palace as buy-to-let flats. Who needs democracy
                    We need them. But lets move them up to a mill town in Lancashire beginning with "B". Then London can be left as a centre of trade, commerce and finance.

                    Lets only have half the numbers up North. Slash the amount of red tape and let us compete with Asia.

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