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Wouldn't need anything like that either. All it is giving is UK citizens the benefits of EU citizenship, not any of the funding. The only debate would be whether they'd be offered the current reciprocal healthcare we benefit from now. Again this would be so small in terms of EU budget spend, but if that right was removed from our EU citizenship I think we'd all understand.

Effectively the cost would be a small administrative one, more than offset against the cost of processing tourist and work visas for non EU British citizens which would cost member states far more.

 

According to the Guardian this morning it's off . It would need a wholesale change to the existing treaties , and Guy Verhofstadt has been told it's not only impractical but would make The EU appear weak .

 

So you think we should have adopted the Euro then ?

 

Hindsight is 20:20.

Had we been members of the euro we'd have had a lot more influence over the last 15 years, whereas because we didn't join we've been marginalised in a lot of decision-making due to that.

However, due to the strength of the pound throughout that time, it would've been daft to adopt the euro as it would've had several negative effects on Britain as a whole.

A combination of the two has probably left Britain in the position it is today, a place where EU migrants want to come because the base pay is worth more than it is back home, (and one of the most developed nations in the EU) and Britain is in good stead compared to the remainder of the EU (Ireland, Greece, Portugal, Spain), but we want to leave to protect this advantage, despite the almost definite short to medium term negative consequences of doing so.

 

Personally I wanted to at the time, but I understand that it would have been very unpopular and a majority of people would have been against it. With hindsight, taking up the Euro and being one of the 3 main powers in the EU (with Germany and France) we could have forged it more to our ideals rather than following behind. However, as usual our politicians are more concerned with short-term interests than the big picture.

At the moment, the drop in value of the £ has made it more attractive for Brits to work across Europe compared to colleagues paid in Euros, just as we are about to lose the right to work across Europe.