What laws do the Brexiteers want to change?

I am actually qualfied enough to act as an expert witness and the EU cookie law was half baked. They have recently made a fuss about facebook while ignoring other real problems. They do not know about technology and are either attacking it superstitiously or milking it with fines to line their own coffers. They made one or two efforts in principle but now are completely out of their depth.

EU membership has largely restricted what they can actually do.

If you want to bring back well paying jobs you're going to have to have a red tape bonfire, something you can't do under the EU.

As somebody pro brexit myself, it isn't so much what laws to change, it's more the dodging of potentially terrible legislation in the future.

I'm just saying what I want changed, I don't have faith in the Tory government fixing anything.

As somebody pro brexit myself, it isn't so much what laws to change, it's more the dodging of potentially terrible legislation in the future.

When you say red tape bonfire, what exactly are you talking about? Come on, let's have some examples. Everyone likes to talk about getting rid of the red tape without actually considering what it is.

So here are some examples I can think of. There is red tape that prevents employers from sacking employees on the spot. Then there is the red tape that ensures employees can contribute to a pension, that they can take a holiday, that they should work in a safe environment. Do you want rid of that? Can you remember the time when workers in dangerous industries regularly died due to negligence and got nothing in compensation? In food outlets, there is red tape that ensures businesses meet basic hygiene standards. Then there is all that red tape that protects us as consumers, ensuring we have the right to return faulty goods. In the digital world, we have a whole load of red tape that protects our data from being used maliciously or for commercial gain.

Much of said red tape may well be European, but all the does is ensure that if you are in France or Greece, you have the same rights. Is that such a bad thing?

So in your red tape bonfire, just exactly which bits of red tape do you cite as holding us back as a nation?

You seem to have bought into project fear - big time. Sure the government is in a pretty good position to steer the UK through EU legislation, and get the results that it wants? I find it difficult to imagine what kind of legislation would be so "terrible" that 65% of the population of the EU would also vote to impose it upon itself.

Got any realistic examples?

This is another one.

Nearly all the decisions made in the Council are done by qualified majority voting now. We're hugely outnumbered in QMV (It's why we lose 100% of the time we oppose a vote).

Our weighting in the Council of Ministers is directly proportional to our population in the EU - just under 13%. So, of course we are outnumbered, but only in a fair way (if we had a greater weighting someone else would have to have proportionally less than their population).

I saw some data recently that said that the UK was on the winning side 85% of the time when it cam to these votes.

Incidentally, it was the UK that pushed for a system of QMV - before that any individual state had a veto over any legislation. So it was very difficult to get anything done.

I think this is you acknowledging that the EU is trying to do something in this area. It isn't really surprising that they don't fully understand the area - there aren't many people that do (you get this same problem in all sorts of legislation and enforcement).

Our weighting in the Council of Ministers is directly proportional to our population in the EU - just under 13%. So, of course we are outnumbered, but only in a fair way (if we had a greater weighting someone else would have to have proportionally less than their population).

I saw some data recently that said that the UK was on the winning side 85% of the time when it cam to these votes.

Incidentally, it was the UK that pushed for a system of QMV - before that any individual state had a veto over any legislation. So it was very difficult to get anything done.

We can keep all the employment rights and regulations outside the EU. Immigration going down is my priority. The truth is there has been a utter lack of information on both sides of the campaign, no matter what direction you try and take the EU debate it will always be Economy vs Immigration it has been on TV for about 2 months and it is just recycling old arguements. I think if we could control our borders Farage wouldn't mind about being in the EU. I do not know I do not want my children to grow up as ethnic minorities.

When you say red tape bonfire, what exactly are you talking about? Come on, let's have some examples. Everyone likes to talk about getting rid of the red tape without actually considering what it is.

So here are some examples I can think of. There is red tape that prevents employers from sacking employees on the spot. Then there is the red tape that ensures employees can contribute to a pension, that they can take a holiday, that they should work in a safe environment. Do you want rid of that? Can you remember the time when workers in dangerous industries regularly died due to negligence and got nothing in compensation? In food outlets, there is red tape that ensures businesses meet basic hygiene standards. Then there is all that red tape that protects us as consumers, ensuring we have the right to return faulty goods. In the digital world, we have a whole load of red tape that protects our data from being used maliciously or for commercial gain.

Much of said red tape may well be European, but all the does is ensure that if you are in France or Greece, you have the same rights. Is that such a bad thing?

So in your red tape bonfire, just exactly which bits of red tape do you cite as holding us back as a nation?

Fair points. So the question is - can we control our borders? Can anywhere truly control their borders? We live on an island after all, so if someone turns up on the beach in a rubber dinghy, where do you send them?

Fair points. So the question is - can we control our borders? Can anywhere truly control their borders? We live on an island after all, so if someone turns up on the beach in a rubber dinghy, where do you send them?

The real underpinning of the anti-immigration Farage Brexiters argument is relatively obvious - and that's racism/xenophobia. God forbid that there be more black people than white people. No, we as whites must be the superior race - outnumbering everyone else otherwise we lose dominance. That's what it's about. And that is exactly why people who are anti-immigration want to leave the EU. They are threatened by the number of non-whites as they view them as "not one of us" and thus they want to seek control. Just like all throughout history. The root of anti-immigration at this point is total xenophobia. Who gives a flying sausage whether the guy next door to me is polish? Funnily enough, that guy is probably your dentist or doctor. An active and positive contribution to our society. Funny how xenophobics like to jump between two arguments and contradict themselves. It's always "they're taking our jobs!", but it's also "they are lazy, good for nothing benefit scroungers!". Interesting. Of course, these people would never admit it though.

I'd rather be concerned with the challenge of educating the inhabitants our Island than having to educate the entire continent.