Britain's membership of the European Union

A) Britain's lack and loss of influence in the EU i) Legislation MEPs can't initiate legislation [Michael Collins, 2014] [1]. 93% of EU laws pass [Business for Britain, 2014 report] [2]; the EU can just keep bringing up legislation until the answer is Yes. ii) Influence in Decline Council of Ministers: 17% (1973) to 8.2% (present) European Parliament: 19.8% (81/410 MEPs) (1973) to 9.7% (73/751 MEPs) (present) [Business for Britain, 2014 report] [3] European Commission: 15% (2 commissioners) (1973) to 4% (1 commissioner) (present) [William Dartmouth MEP, 2014 report] [4] iii) Attempts at major change Britain has opposed 55 measures in the Council of Ministers, and has been overruled all 55 times [Business for Britain, 2014 report] [3]. iv) Impact EU regulations make up 53% of all regulations, and influence 10-4% and 9-14% of acts put in place by our parliament and regulations initiated by our parliament respectively [Full Fact, 2014] [5]. B) Membership fees Britain's net contribution in the form of EU membership fees in 2003 was £3.6bn, £3.2bn in 2008, and £8.6bn in 2013 [HM Treasury, 2013 statement] [6]. C) Trade i) No benefits from the EU The UK receives no trade benefit from the EU [Civitas, 2004 report] [7]. The UK receives no trade benefit from the EU [Civitas, 2014 report] [8]. ii) Negative effects on trade Outside the EU, we could reactivate our seat at the World Trade Organization [William Dartmouth MEP, 2014 report] [4]. D) Red Tape From May 2010-4, 3,580 laws affecting British businesses were made by the EU [Business for Britain, 2014 report] [9]. E) Energy EU energy policy threatens 1.5m jobs and will cost between £88.6bn-£93.2bn net [Business for Britain, 2014 report] [10], which promotes traditionally renewable energy, despite Google engineers have abandoning the concept, claiming that renewable energy won't do anything to stop climate change [WSJ, 2014] [11], and studies showing that there is no significant difference in CO2 emissions from using Wind/Nuclear [Prof Gordon Hughes, Edinburgh University] [12], Nuclear's wholesale cost being 1/2 [Chris Heaton-Harris MP, 2013] [13], creating 10x more direct jobs on a per MegaWatt basis [Nuclear Energy Institute, 2014] [14], and causes 1/3.75 the amount of deaths [Next Big Future, 2011] [15]. 1/2 of Power Stations earmarked for closure for 2020 have been forced to close because of EU policy, which is to cost Britain 11 GigaWatts of energy [Business for Britain, 2014 report] [10]. F) Jobs The EU's CFP has cost Britain 9k fishing jobs [TaxPayers' Alliance, 2009 report] [16], and 88k in dependent industries [Freedom Association, 2011] [17], adding up to 97,000 in total.G) AidThere's "massive waste" in the EU's aid spending programs, to which we're a major contributor [International Development Committee, 2015 report] [18]. H) Migration i) ScalePresident of the European Commission Barosso confirms that freedom of movement is mandatory [The Andrew Marr Show, 2014] [19].Hence it's no surprise Cameron's promise for net migration under 100k was broken [IBT, 2014] [20] - it's now 260k [BBC, 2014] [21]. ii) Crime (consequence of an open door to recently ex-communist countries)1/2 of pickpocketers caught on the tube are Romanian Immigrants [British Transport Police, 2014] [22].Romanian immigrants have 26x the arrest rate of German immigrants [MET Police, 2013 report] [23].iii) BenefitsA2 workers are 4x more likely than workers as a whole to claim self-employment status + get extra benefits [The Migration Observatory, 2014] [24].iv) £Due to wage compression (caused by how density of migration compares to the more general population), between 1995 & 2010, for every 100 immigrants in work, 23 British natives lost their jobs [Migration Advisory Committee, 2012 report] [25].v) Population 1991-2012, The Migration Observatory,54% [26]2001-2012, MigrationWatchUK,84% (inc. 1.3m children born to foreign parents) [27]2001-2012, ONS,57% [28] vi) HousingImmigration will cause 40% of new housing in Britain [MigrationWatchUK, 2009] [29]. If current rates of immigration persist, over 20 years house prices will be 10% more than if net migration was 0 [Select Committee on Economic affairs, 2008 report] [30]. vii) Long-term Even if net migration were 165,000 the equivalent of 10 cities the size of Birmingham would be needed in 25 years [MigrationWatchUK, 2014 report] [31]. Immigration at current scale will lead to water shortages and failing hospitals [Civitas, 2014 report] [32]. I) PropagandaThe EU spent £225m on 1,000 spin doctors to promote itself [The Telegraph, 2011] [33]. The EU spent £2m trolling eurosceptics to subvert debate [RT, 2013] [34]. The EU spent £65k on newspaper adverts calling euroscepticism "paranoid xenophobia" [conservativehome, 2014] [35]. J) Dying EU DreamTrust in the EU has decreased significantly in every European country since 2007 bar 1 [The Telegraph, 2015] [36]. 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