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I am happy to have a cohesive tax and VAT policy. It prevents uncutting each other and big companies getting tax dodging loopholes. A few posts ago you were calling for Luxemburg to be punished ( or one man from Luxemburg) for undercutting other EU countries. The only way to stop that is to have...

Are you complaining about being outvoted? Not long ago you were a democrat asking the people who were outvoted to get over it. Make your mind up. Are you a democrat who accepts being outvoted or are you just a moaner? We have a central bank. We need greater financial cohesion and a fairer vat...

Remain made false predictions..... but, not necessarily in all cases. Time will tell. We haven’t left yet, but things are not looking rosy. Leaving is proving more complicated than people believed or said. Nothing positive has happened yet. We have no deals, we are still paying into the EU and...

I have never said everyone has the same say. I told you as an example how many MEPS UK had as opposed to Estonia. I also said we are up there with France, Germany and Italy. We have less say on finance in the Eurozone. You are the one who insists that we have no say and that Juncker is the boss...

No, but I will post a description of Juncker‘s role for your benefit: Role The President is the head of the European Commission. According to the Treaties, he decides on the organisation of the Commission, allocates portfolios to members of the Commission and can make changes at any time. The...

What does that title mean in English btw?

We get a say appropriate to our size. I don’t know how this takes effect, if at all. Apart from anything else, Frau Merkel and the Fourth Reich have already said they don’t agree with some of the points. Just because the commission suggests a plan, doesn’t mean that it will happen. Anyway, what...

Yes. Ok. I don’t read the Express or Sun, so forgive me if I am not up to date on childish nicknames or Faragisms. Anyway, what was your point regarding UK tax dodging for certain firms?

Who is Rumpy Pumpy? And does this mean the UK is allowed to give certain firms tax dodging privileges? Is that your point?

So you are in effect saying Cameron and Juncker should be investigated as they both knew what was going on?

Legally they are two separate entities.

It’s the country that is being investigated, not Cameron the person.

What‘s your take on the EU investigating Cameron allowing certain companies in the U.K. a loop hole to dodge taxes in 2013?

Just clocked in... picking myself up off the floor.... that was some result....

Who has a bigger say in what? Eurozone Germany. The rest of legislation I don’t know which one country has the most influentce. The number of MEPs per country is connected to population. Which should mean that we France, Germany and Itaky have most influence, but the MEPs themselves belong to...

The racist vote is against the refugee problem, not the EU specifically. The people I meet don’t mention anything about Brexit unless something comes up to do with the U.K.. Virtually everyone who does mention Brexit thinks we‘re nuts leaving. Nobody has ever mentioned Juncker to me or whether...

I don’t think many countries had a bigger say than us. The EU is not becoming a monster. The system of the majority overriding the minority is called democracy- or at least when you are in the majority. The system of doing deals to get things passed is the usual way of doing things. I don’t...

Grendel‘s article explains how that works. We have 73 MEPs in the parliament and along with France, Germany and Italy had more say than most. We have less say on Eurozobe matters because we are not in it.

Up until now no one has mentioned the EU. The guys I met up with last night invited me to drinks all night. They are Estonian and work in Finnland. They said we earn the most money here and paid my bar bill. Tonight is my mate‘s birthday Party in the Big Ben pub. Let’s see how many people come...

She has more say economically because of the Euro which we didn’t want to join.