Am I the only person in Britain who is fed up with Europeans stealing our money and making laws for us?
402297
i say that's wrong if it's your money and your land you should decide what to do with it!
337681
The imigration system in the uk is a farce, whatever rules there were at the start have long since gone obscure.\nThe system is in a shambles, only yesterday, government proposals for stopping marrages of convienience were quashed in the UK courts because the do gooders, think these scroungers have rights, they do NOT.\nOur Country is being bled dry by these people who tell us they are being persecuted back home, its all rubbish, they have heard about the land of plenty from their relatives and friends and so can't wait to get here.\nThe system needs ahuge overhaul and needs implimenting properly with no loop holes
291724
Its due to a lunatic politically correct government who operate a free for all policy. Other countries in Europe have a benefit system which is contribution based meaning you only get benefits if you pay into the system...the UK system will give you anything you want unless you are a tax paying law abiding English man then you have to fend for yourself. There are queues of immigrants waiting to come to the UK from France. the UK government are so frightened of being accused of being called racist that the easiest way to get whatever you want is to belong to a minority group.....The government also allows you do do whatever you want to do in the UK as long as you pretend that you don't speak English. Normal rules that apply to your average English citizen don't apply to immigrants be they black white yellow or blue.
484106
i totally agree and what does my head even more is they get housed quicker and get money from the goverment and steal our jobs its not on and not fair idont give to money or anything thats for a different country purley because they dont do anything for us and also why is the govenment letting more and more into our country grrrr
771104
Well, duh!\n\nFancy the government forgetting VAT - something that is paid on EVERYTHING!\n\nIf I told my husband that I was going to spend £100 on Christmas presents but the bill actually came to £300 he would kill me.   Obviously it would not be my fault that I forgot Great Aunt Ethel when doing my pricings, and had forgotten to include wrapping paper, Christmas Cards, the petrol to go shopping, the parking fees, lunch while out - and the VAT on everything!\n\nMind you, the money does not matter - it's not my problem as it comes out of my husband's bank account - just like it is not the government's problem where the money comes from as they will not go bankrupt - the country can pay, out of taxation!
632456
The EU as a whole has too much power over us....
886623
yes i too beleive they are brain washed....this really does irritates the brits...but they know its true...they wld like to get rid of the royals but dont have the balls to do so. when u ask them they say its for the tourism....give me a break...what abt those countries with no royals but get soo many tourists than england???....im looking for that day when i will wake up and find that they have removed them....they need to live this is 21st century not 1400!!!
877011
Not just the French, pal. We British think you are brash, arrogant and generally ignorant of the world beyond the USA's frontiers.
587925
Quit cying.  Europeans have been paying even more for years.  We're spoiled rotten.
276406
You sure you are not talking about the French?  I know the British Nobles can get a bit full of themselves, but the British people are usually ok and lets face, we can not call the British out on their Nobles, we at least, not as long as we not only vote Ted Kennedy into office, but onto the Ethic's committee too.\n\nIf you want to meet some freaking rude people and I mean obviously rude people, go visit France.  They will make sure you wished you had not spent your money on the plane fare.\n\nJohn B.\n\ntheriddle, you obviously have not been on the recieving end of what I am speaking of, enjoy your trip and education and if you are French, I rest my case.
959879
I applaud you.\n\nYou have just said exactly what I feel. We can't do anything about it because the people of this country would rather beleive the endless drivel of lies that comes out of a certain PM's mouth than look around, see with their own two eyes  and vote accordingly. The blatant waste of taxpayers money on perks for MPs alone could go a long way to combating true poverty for the poorest families in the u.k. In this day and age we should not have a single child in the U.K go hungry or without a roof over it's head before money is dished out to 'whereveristan' for whatever project the dictator of that country claims it needs the cash for....... it really makes my blood boil.
863493
Are you not even in America??? Get over yourself!!! Put down our government and then start talking about house prices in the UK???  I am sickened that someone who has nothing to do with MY government would criticize it so.  We aren't the ones who still live with a monarchy who has to sign off on everything.  Remember the Revolutionary War? We kicked your butts! And we were outnumbered 10 to 1.  All to be a true democracy.
852122
NO.! Corruption.\nIn what has become a predictable annual event, the EU Court of Auditors, once again refusing to certify the EU accounts as legal and reliable, listed a catalogue of institutional problems in its report of 24th October 2006.\nThe Court found "weak internal controls for the majority of EU expenditure”, The Court also reported a "high incidence of errors in the underlying transactions" and that "overdeclarations and ineligible expenditure [ie fraud] continue to go undetected within the majority of EU expenditure areas.\nDid you know this?\nPerhaps the most disturbing part of the Amsterdam Treaty was its provisions for the legal system known as Corpus Juris to be introduced throughout the EU. (Corpus Juris can be introduced by Qualified Majority Voting, so the EU can introduce it even if we were to refuse it by a 100% majority in Westminster.)\n[Section II, Chapter 8, heading (d): "Measures for countering fraud against the financial interests of the Community"]\n\nCorpus Juris will set up a European Public Prosecutor with over-riding criminal law jurisdiction throughout Europe, initially on matters of fraud against the EU budget, later to be extended to all criminal activities, which will thus come within the EU purview. Habeas Corpus and Trial by Jury - rights enjoyed by Britons since Magna Carta - are explicitly to be abolished under these proposals. \n\n[ The proposals are being drawn up by EU Commission (XX DG) which details an EU criminal code and code of procedure. Article 26.1 explicitly provides for cases (where the sentence can be up to seven years) to be heard by Courts "consisting of professional judges, excluding simple jurors and lay magistrates."]\n\nThe implications of this proposal cannot be overemphasised. As Churchill wrote "...the great principle of Habeas Corpus and Trial by Jury ... are the supreme protection invented by the British people for ordinary individuals against the state. The power of the executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him judgment by his peers for an indefinite period, is in the highest degree odious, and is the foundation of all totalitarian governments."\n\n[ Winston Churchill, minute to the Home Secretary, 21 November 1943]\n\nThe obligation to conform to the requirements of the Amsterdam Treaty explains the Government's determination to press ahead with the abolition of the right to Trial by Jury for certain offences, despite defeat in the House of Lords and widespread opposition from lawyers and civil rights groups.\nVisit the website below,it certainly is an eye opener!!!
1154603
Oh I'm NOT going to criticise you at all!! I 100% agree with you!\nThis human rights act is being taken too far,and its all thanks to Europe! The Courts in England are absolute nuts! When will they realise that someone that commits such horrendous acts FORFEIT ALL RIGHTS! They have none whatsoever! and should be treated accordingly! So there you go,I'm with you ALL the way on this one! Well done you!
708629
Excellent.  I don't normally answer questions from the US, as it's not my culture and I wish US residents would refrain from advising Brits on legal matters as if our laws were identical.  We're different.\n\nBut this is clever and ironic, love it.
570222
I don't think England would be wise to give up the monetary system they currently have. Joining the Euro system would be the same as using the American dollar. You would be assimilated, with no identity then. I am an American, and I don't like the fascism going on with the Republicans, and the current Bush Administration. Americans wont go along with it for to long without a revolt, and I see that happening really soon.
958300
of course you pay better wages.. is the pound not stronger than the euro? but mostly, it's because they know the politicians are far too spineless to kick them out or tell them they can't come in. You see if they did, someone might criticize them.