I am fairly certain it is down to an age thing. Those old enough to remember going into what was then the common market will remember that that is what it was sold as, a common market. Cheap  , fags and inexpensive holidays. Ted Heath did not tell us until we had signed that we would lose our 12 mile territorial waters and that within a relatively short time Spanish super trawlers would have emptied our fish stocks and decimated the fishing ports of Grimsby and other towns that relied upon the industry. Quotas for steel production were imposed and not long after British steel went tits up. Trade with New Zealand, Australia (butter and lamb) were restricted as we had to buy so much from within the Common Market, trade with the West Indies went the same with banana and sugar restrictions. Even in the early 70’s it was not all plain sailing and the Utopia the politicians would of had us believe did not materialise. Our shipyards could produce either war ships or commercial vessels but not both. Ask anyone who used to work at Cammel Lairds how that panned out for them?
What we did get was a massive bill for the common Agricultural policy to subsidise French farmers to keep on producing stuff we did not need or want (remember the wine lakes, butter mountains and beef stored in huge freezers?) as inefficiently as possible. There have been some benefits but I only see that they are grossly outweighed by the cons, restrictions and ever growing tighter regulations that grow year by year. Having spoken to many people about the subject I have to conclude that most people over 50 will vote to come out and those too young to remember all the things we have lost will vote to stay in as the current state of affairs is normality to them.
It won’t be all doom and gloom if we come out, people will not stop buying Rolls Royce engines, Scotch whiskey or many of the other world class products we supply and we will be able to start supplying again without quotas to restrict us. We can form our own trade agreements with the growing world such as India and China without the restrictions of Brussels and unelected, anonymous bureaucrats. I will be voting out and I suspect the result will depend upon are there more people over 50 in the UK than under?
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