Leaving the EU is a process, not an event which will happen on 24th June. Nothing changes in law when we vote Leave. We are not choosing a government on 23 June. A Leave result in this referendum will instruct the current Government to negotiate our exit on the best possible terms. As the Chairman of Britain Stronger In Europe, Lord Rose, openly admitted: It’s not going to be a step change or somebody’s going to turn the lights out […]
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We are paying almost £2 billion to encourage Macedonia, Albania, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey to join the EU. When they join, over 88 million more people will have a right to live and work in the UK. The Government cannot control migration from the EU if we remain. We have a flourishing economy in this country with great public services and a National Living Wage. That is bound to attract more people. Free movement of people is a noble dream but many local people despair of the cost […]
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The EU makes many rules which have a massive impact on our public services. With plans for taking control of health policy in each of its member states, the EU’s influence over our NHS will only increase. As an undemocratic backroom manoeuvre, the EU Commission is creating and implementing policies which will greatly affect our local services without so much as asking UK citizens for consent. One such initiative is the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), which poverty campaign group, War on Want, called: An […]
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Decisions made in our Parliament and our courts can be struck down by the EU. European Union law trumps the laws and courts of the UK. Important policies, including in areas such as immigration and VAT, can be completely overturned by the EU. For example, Parliament wants to end the Tampon Tax by charging no VAT on sanitary products. The EU blocks this reform. Those who don’t like or support the party of government in the UK have it within their power to vote them […]
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Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust’s deficit this year is £10 million. Our net EU contribution is equivalent to £23 million per day. In other words, just half a day’s net contribution to the EU by UK taxpayers would cover the annual deficit of our local NHS Trust. As I set out in my article on the cost of EU membership, the UK is billed the equivalent of over £50m a day by the EU. After taking into account our negotiable rebate and payments by the EU to UK farmers, […]
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It is increasingly clear that the EU isn’t working for its members. Much has been claimed about the importance of the EU for creating and preserving jobs in the UK. Unemployment in the UK is currently at 5 percent, compared with the EU’s 8.9 percent and the Eurozone’s 10.3 percent. The EU is not working. With a youth unemployment rate of 19.4 percent compared with the UK’s 13.6 percent, the EU is particularly failing its young citizens, especially those in southern countries: […]
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We will soon choose together what kind of government will best promote our common good. There are risks on both sides of the question on the ballot paper. In a world of unexpected events, trial and error, we need institutions of government which are agile and accountable to the public. Our parliamentary democracy has evolved over centuries to provide both. Today, the European Union sits above our Parliament and our law. It is failing. High youth unemployment, extraordinary monetary policy […]
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Inside the EU, the UK is unable to make any trade deals of its own. We must rely on the EU negotiating on our behalf. We are at the mercy of 27 other EU countries serving their own interests. For example, the EU trade deal with Canada is stalled in a row over visa-free travel for Romania and Bulgaria. The Remain campaign is peddling scare stories, pessimism and implausible assumptions about our trade. It’s in everyone’s mutual interests smoothly to agree to continue open trading relations. There […]
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EU citizenship gives the right to live and work anywhere in the EU on the same basis as the citizens of each member state. Every citizen of each member state is also an EU citizen. Within the EU, we are forbidden from controlling migration from the EU. Meanwhile, local people’s families outside the EU often face harsh barriers just to visit. In the ten years to 2024, the UK’s population is projected to grow by 440,000 per year – roughly a city the […]
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We will soon choose together what kind of government will best promote our common good. There are risks on both sides of the question on the ballot paper. In a world of unexpected events, trial and error, we need institutions of government which are agile and accountable to the public. Our parliamentary democracy has evolved over centuries to provide both. Today, the European Union sits above our Parliament and our law. It is failing. High youth unemployment, extraordinary monetary policy […]
Tags: EU, EU referendum, Let's Leave, Parliament
Steve Baker is the Conservative MP for Wycombe.
Steve was first elected to Parliament in 2010. He was previously an RAF engineer officer then a consulting software engineer. Find out more...
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