The whole video is full of inaccuracies. They claim just before 15:15 that UK will be pressured to sign up to the single currency. First time I'm hearing this.
If this is the first time you hearing this then, you are not very widely read. What he actually said was:
"signing up to the EU constitution would undoubtably increase the pressure on Britain to enter the single currency"
Why is it that you think the EU is not in the business of more political and economic integration and would therefore not apply pressure to join the Euro at any opportunity as I'm sure it already does?
There is no obligation to any membership in the EU or the single currency.
Really, and who is to say that more pressure won't be applied post-2020 or if national government changes and decides that we now meet the 5 economic tests set out by Gordon Brown? The stated end goal of the EUSSR is complete and total political, economic, fiscal and cultural union, nothing else is acceptable, you either join as Borg or are destroyed by the EU gulag (EU gulag building underway BTW:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/10/eu-internet-censorship-will-censor-whole-worlds-internet)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance...l-EU-members-will-have-to-adopt-the-euro.html
https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/100314/why-doesnt-england-use-euro.asp
15:15 they start talking about econmics. Ian Milne is supposed to an economist.
He starts off with EU model is not copied anywhere in the world. Actually the common market free trade areas are.
Wrong! I don't know what film you have been watching or through what type of distorted lens you are using, he states that:
there is a huge misconception that the EU political and economic model represents the future, big mistake. And then he goes onto explain that the EU model is copied nowhere in the
developed world (USA, Japan, S.Korea, Oz etc), and that customs unions have existed in Africa, Russia and satellites.
Simply that they are not advanced or integrated as EU is. Before EU no such model existed. Video is misleading. Yes EU Model in entirety doesn't exist but CUSTOMS UNIONS and FREE TRADE areas do exist. Anyone with any decency would call this out as deceptive mind boggling crap to the unaware layman.
Your interpretation of "
EU political and economic model represents the future, big mistake" is deceptively mind boggling to even the most intelligent Sri Lankian! You twist the video's words without somehow realising we can all go and watch the same video and listen to a different explanation than the one you attempt to provide.
They say not even USA with subtitle FREE TRADE but that's misleading because NAFTA is one of the biggest FREE TRADE areas.
Does NAFTA impose political and economic integration on it members, like the EU does? No? Then let's stick to the context shall we: "
EU political and economic model represents the future, big mistake"
They even have the audacity to claim not EVEN China or India have opted for European type agreement. Well they have actually, simply that they do not have the degree of integration we have.
So it's not the same. He explains that the China/India model is
"user friendly, govt to govt, light touch", so absolutely nothing like the EU integration model: "
EU political and economic model represents the future, big mistake"
The speel is factually inaccurate and misleading with CUSTOM UNION and FREE TRADE. They do have these. The key differentiating factor is Treaty of Rome and European Court of Justice. As mentioned before we share common values and principals unlike the Chinese or Indians and what with all the unfair government intervention and subsidies and mixed command economy used in China they can only dream of reaching our EU model only if they can sort their national issues out.
Yourself and the EU are entitled to think what you like about shared common values and principals, there are quite a few million that disagree with you and EU. And to think that you think the Chinese aspire to the EU model, what are you, Chinese or somethink?
Oh yes, that only proves that we don't need the EU for free trade agreements, thanks for making the Brexit argument
Listening again, I have mis-interpreted this quote. Starting at 16:18.
They claim 90% of the UK economy is not involved in exporting to the EU not that 90% of UK exports go to non-EU countries.
However, presenting these numbers is misleading. If 10% of the economy exports 42% of all trade to EU then there is a great deal of jobs and value there in comparison to the 90% of the economy exporting to the rest of non-EU countries ie 58%. This is playing silly buggers with statistics. Brexiteers minds are being buggered with would be my take. Think about it.
Careful, we'll end up with a Project Fear discussion agn.
They claim US exports more to EU than UK does. Well of course they would being USA their economy is the largest in the World. What a pathetic claim to make in comparison with the UK. It's like comparing a light weight boxer with a heavyweight stating Heavy Weight packs a bigger punch. Where is the comparison.
Taking it out of context again or still need your ears syringing? He's not making the comparison you are making, he is making the point that the US exports more to the EU than the UK "
without paying a penny to Brussels or imposing one ounce of regulation on the US economy".
Do you Brexiteer guys think about what is being dished out to the average layman. Anyone who remotely considers him self to be a principled reasonable academic would question these assertions to mislead without qualifying percentages indicating relativity.
It's certainly none of the non-academic, unprofessional interpretation and spin you are trying to put onto this video. I suggest that if you are going to pull a set of arguments apart for examination and to rebuke, that you either listen to what is being said or take off the remainer kaleidoscope you are looking through, it really is fudging with your mind
So what % of the UK workforce do these 90% employ compared to the 10% who do export to the EU.
Do you think if 10% of companies lose some of that 42% of all exports lose markets that some how it will not have any effect on the rest of UK industry?
I thought we were past peak Project Fear? I guess not.
