How is that circular reasoning?(I think you have the definition mixed up) This person knows more about that particular situation than any of you so I'd take their word on it, simple as that they are all dead against voting out.
So you would cast your vote because you believe that somebody that has a vested interest in remaining in the EU is talking objectively?
As has been pointed out to you already on this thread you will have to do your own research and try to ignore the propaganda machine that wants you to be scared enough not to use your own brains.
For me the problem lies with the Common Agricultural Policy. This was the single reason we entered the Common Market in the first place and while Ted Heath seemed to think it made sense to force us into it the whole thing has now undergone massive mission creep and is affecting us in ways never originally intended.
Somebody mentioned in their reply to you that we get less back than we pay out and that a lot of that money ends up in the hands of the rich. I suggest you research the Common Agricultural Policy for evidence of that. We pay in something like 4.5 billion and take around 2.5 billion in return. Agricultural subsidies are based on land acreage so a large land owner will get more than a small land owner or a tenant farmer. Now the Duke of Westminster is probably the richest bloke in this country and he's also a massive land owner as is our own Queen and the Church. They don't need EU handouts but they get them anyway, all paid for by you and me through taxes. Now multiply that problem across the 27 other member states who also have their stinking rich land owners and you can see that the EU is propping up a rich man's club at the expense of the ordinary working man.
Farmers represent 5.4 percent of the EU’s population. They generate a mere 1.6 percent of the Union’s GDP. Yet they receive 47 percent of the EU’s total budget through CAP handouts. Europe’s taxpayers hand over €58 billion in subsidies to this minority.
You would have thought that most farmers would be all for the EU as they are the group that most benefit from it arn't they? Well I was surprised to read that in the farmers forum they are voting in their poll to leave by about two thirds of the vote. Why do you think that would be? Simple. Because of land mass.
The area of productive agricultural land in this country is dwarfed by the land available to France and Spain. We are at the bottom of the pile when it comes to agricultural production simply because we don't have the land mass. And Farmers are getting p*ssed off by the fact that the French (in particular) get a huge slice of the subsidies cake and they have to compete against them and everybody else on an unlevel playing field. The British tax payer is propping up the French agricultural industry and our farmers see it even if the bloke on the Clapham omnibus cannot.
It's one of the reasons the French will NEVER leave the EU because they are the main beneficiaries from it.
I suggest you ignore the views of your friends that have a vested interest and do some reading of your own.
