EA - it is easy for you to deride and laugh off what some people have said here - but if I was in Norway I would be angry. It is a fact Norway have to play by our rules for their own economic benefit - yet they do not get a chance to effect them. For whatever you say about the way the EU goes about it's business and whatever you may think of 'our' say, we do have a significant seat at the table - a disproportionate one, really - and we effect what happens. What UKIP - and having met and argued with the deputy leader of them, I can assure you they are clueless - and other Eurosceptics don't realise, is that by pulling ourselves out of the EU, we may have a theoretical and aesthetic look of independence and control but realistically we loose whatever control we had over the state of our affairs, in this increasingly globalised world.
UKIP may be morons but it doesn't follow the EU is a good idea.

The glaring lack of democratic accountability is just unacceptable. Or any accountability really: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7092102.stm

The auditors for the EU have refused to sign off the bloc's financial accounts - for the 13th year in a row.
A report by the European Court of Auditors (ECA) criticises nearly every major area of the EU's expenditure.

The auditors say there are weaknesses across the board and complain of neglect and presumed attempts at fraud.

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Errors of legality and regularity still persist in the majority of the EU's 106bn euro annual budget (£75bn), according to the Court of Auditors. Its President, Hubert Weber, calls on the commission to lead by example in making improvements.
But mainly, the EU is a gamble on an economic fortress europe being possible. I doubt that it is possible, and I am pretty sure it is not possible without control of migration, which the EU does not have now and certainly will not have when and if things get bad.

I suspect that the EU economy will go the way of the old eastern european command economies: for a while, maybe a long while, you can defy economic gravity, but the longer you hold out the worse the crash will be when it comes.

The European social model is a losing bet.

Nice to see you here BTW