badgerx16

Not good enough.

The commissioners do not make up laws. They do make proposals, but these have to be debated, amended, voted on, and accepted by the EU Parliament and the Council of Ministers, and individual national Governments. https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-facts-behind-claims-brussels-bureaucrats/ "Crucially, the Commission has only a limited role in EU law-making. It can decide some less important rules, and in general it is the only institution that can propose new laws, but it doesn’t have the power to pass them on its own. Professor Kassim says that many of the proposals that it brings forward have been requested by national political leaders. And there is no guarantee that a Commission proposal will become a law. The authority to make law belongs to the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union. The Parliament is directly elected by EU citizens every five years. The Council of the European Union, sometimes called the Council of Ministers, is where representatives of all 28 member countries negotiate. These two institutions debate, amend and pass EU law. Each one has a veto."

Amstrad

Brexiteer 'Project Fear' recycling old half truths.

Ain't that the truth.

Not according to Autocar, ( and if they do end up moving production to Slovakia, they are in the EU ); http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/new-land-rover-defender-due-2019 http://www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/manufacturer-news/2015/12/09/vauxhall-signs-procurement-deal-with-28-police-forces-for-fleet-cars "28 UK Police forces have signed the UK's largest ever emergency vehicle procurement deal for the supply of more than 3,000 vehicles over the next two years. The group tender includes the supply of cars from Vauxhall, Volvo and BMW, as well as Ford and Vauxhall vans." The European Court of Auditors (ECA), an EU body set up to examine the accounts of the Union, signed off on the 2014 accounts as reliable—something it's done for every set of figures since 2007. But it did find that payments made were materially affected by error. ( https://fullfact.org/europe/did-auditors-sign-eu-budget/ ) You really should read a bit more widely.

Portland

There will never be a case for doing that.

Rotherham possibly, Blackpool no.

http://recruitingtimes.org/news/12211/cbi-projects-1-million-fewer-jobs-post-brexit-young-worst-hit/ CBI says that post-brexit, apprenticeships and graduate jobs will suffer and that its Commonwealth partners have said they will reduce investment.

The north of England will be fine, thank you very much. We'll just join the Scots when they secede from the Union and stay in the EU, and leave the 'softy southerners' to wallow in their misery under a BoJo / Farage joint leadership.

Exactly what we are being fed from both sides.

So why mention it ?

And how might brexit prevent this ?

Crossed fingers, wishful thinking, and belief in fairies.

Yet somehow we are still the 5th largest economy in the world.

Easy thing to do just before he got blasted by the SWAT team. #Paranoia

Of course they exist, as do Christian extremists, Hindu extremists, and there are probably psychos waiting in the wings who are afiliated to the Flying Spaghetti Monster. However I think the Orlando nutter was just that, a nutter, who also happened to be of Islamic extraction. He was such a devout adherent to IS' philosophy that he, apparently, frequented this particular gay bar, met men on gay dating sites, and was often drunk.

Not sure of the "Islamic extremist" tag, more a psychotic sociopathic nut with a history of unprovoked violence.

Not upset, just concerned about what happens when all the false brexit prophets are exposed as charlatans, and their fairy tale promises turn to dust.

Island

You can guarantee that ? I think I'll be changing my vote: Lower food prices, improved balance of payments, billions extra for the NHS, full employment, Boris for PM, the sun will shine every day, global warming will stop, England will win the World Cup. It'll be a bloody EUtopia. !

Looks like Vince will soon be back.

Currently, if we were to be subject to the same conditions as EFTA countries, post Brexit, we would be bound by the free movement requirements of the EU. What you have posted is a theoretical discussion point, ( if it is really being suggested ), which presumably all remaining EU members would have to ratify.

Watch any TV advert that claims "X% of people would recommend this product" - that seems to be the way that statistics are used. Similarly with 'majorities' in strike ballots, and claiming the Tories are in Government because the majority voted for them. ( Or that we pay £350m a week into the EU ).