THE EU ‘SINGLE MARKET’ ISN’T ABOUT TRADE, IT’S ABOUT POLITICS
FACTS4EU.ORG LETTER TO THOSE WHO VOTED REMAIN – No.5
Dear Remain voter
Here are some important general points about the EU’s ‘Single Market’, which we hope you will find interesting. In the following article we then show you how the UK’s exports to the EU are falling, and we look at whether the UK’s growth has benefited by being a member of the ‘Single Market’.
1. No other trading bloc in the world:
Demands political obedience
Demands open borders
Imposes its own ‘social’ laws on member states
Imposes its tax system on member states
Imposes its own court on member states
Has its own (failing) currency
Is forming its own army and other armed forces – and you are helping to finance it
Demands a £10bn plus membership fee each year
The ‘Single Market’ should really be called the ‘Single Government’
2. Despite the hype, there’s no visible effect on the UK’s growth rate in 25 years
25 years is surely long enough to see the effects of this ‘Single Market’?
In the article below we show you the falling growth since the Single Market started
If the Single Market is so essential, why didn’t the UK’s growth rate increase?
3. The ‘Single Market’ is based on goods, not services – but only 21% of UK economy is goods
Previous governments (including Messrs Cameron and Osborne) talked of the EU’s ‘completing the Single Market’ as being vital
What they mean is that it should have been extended to cover services long ago
Services make up almost 80% of UK economy
In 25 years, the EU still has no effective single market in services
Generally in the EU, when something’s in the UK’s interests, it doesn’t get done
4. The ‘Single Market’ is intrinsically bound up with EU membership
The term ‘Single Market’ doesn’t appear anywhere in the EU treaties
Instead it is referred to as the ‘internal market’
It includes the four enslavements – goods, capital, trade law and immigration
The EU legal database contains 31,483 documents relating to the internal market – Treaties, International agreements, Legislation, EFTA documents, Consolidated legislation, Preparatory acts, EU case law, Directives, Judgements, Decisions, etc
5. Over 160 countries happily trade with the EU, without having joined the ‘Single Market’
When the UK leaves the EU, trade will carry on
If the EU continues to play politics with EU citizens’ jobs, the UK will trade on WTO terms
Even falling back on WTO arrangements would be better than the current system
No more mass immigration, no more EU-imposed laws, no more EU politics!
Just good profitable trade, the way the rest of the world has done it for years
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