This is a BBC video on why we should stay in the EU.
Their description of the video is:
David Cameron has travelled to Brussels hoping to persuade other European leaders to back his plan for reforming Britain's relationship with the other 27 EU countries. It comes ahead of a referendum in which voters in Britain will decide to stay or leave the EU. That vote is expected to happen some time next year.
So what are the benefits of staying or leaving? UKIP's Suzanne Evans and Labour MP Alan Johnson have set out their opposing views for the Victoria Derbyshire programme. Mr Johnson, is fronting Labour's campaign to stay in the EU.
With the EU referendum only weeks away the BBC should be an impartial player in the debate but as the state news outlet for the country many people have complained that they are repeating the Conservative Remain message in their documentaries and news pieces.
What do you think are the BBC being an impartial player in this referendum or are they just the Conservative mouth piece for the Remain campaign?
This is a BBC (UK State run TV channel), documentary on the EU by Jeremy Paxman. In it he looks at who really runs the EU and makes our laws.
The blurb on the video says:
As the EU referendum debate approaches its climax, Jeremy Paxman takes viewers on a journey to the heart of Europe, meeting the movers, shakers and anonymous faces who run the EU. His central question is simple - has the UK given the power to rule it to Europe, and if so, does it matter?
Meeting crucial figures like Michael Gove and Nick Clegg, he hears arguments on both sides, whilst also trying to understand just how the incredibly complex organisation operates. On his journey he struggles through the Parliamentarian (an EU museum that tries to explain the place), tries on a replica of Margaret Thatcher's famous EU jumper and samples the EU-regulated wares of the Portobello Road.
Do you think anything from the BBC can be believed or do you see it as a state mouthpiece that is always going to be pro-EU whilst the government of the day wants us to remain in the EU?
Nigel Farage attacks Lame Duck President for sticking his nose into the BREXIT debate
This is Nigel Farage on Sky News attacking President Obama for sticking his nose into the BREXIT debate.
He thinks the terminology used by President Obama e.g "back of the queue", signifies that he was parroting a UK line and that the idea that it would take 10 years to make a UK trade deal if we leave is just preposterous.
He also goes into the TTIP deal and why Obama is so keen on the UK staying in the EU and joining the TTIP deal which will allow giant US corporations to buy up the NHS and other UK public services.
What I want to know is why can't the Tory leader, David Cameron, debate leading BREXIT campaigners?
If he doesn't want Blue on Blue attacks, there are enough UKIP, Independents and Labour people to debate instead.
Why isn't David Cameron debating the BREXIT campaign. Surely his agreement that he managed to agree with EU leaders was supposed to prevent us from wanting to vote leave.
Therefore why haven't we heard hardly anything about it since he came back from the EU?
This is the Spectator debate on whether or not Britain should leave the EU.
The debate is chaired by Andrew Neil and the panellists are split into two groups.
People persuading us for a BREXIT:
Dan Hannan
Nigel Farage
Kate Hoey
And the Better Together group who want us to remain in the EU:
Nick Clegg
Liz Kendall
Chuka Umunna
The question I want to know is where is David Cameron?
Surely as the Prime Minister of the UK and the person who has set up the referendum as well as the person who thought his "new deal" with the EU would prevent us from leaving. Surely he should be centre stage making the argument for us to stay and telling us how his "deal" will change our minds?
What do you think of the debate. Has it changed your point of view on whether to vote to leave the EU or to stay in?
This is the basics of why we should vote to stay within the EU.
It covers the basics from our joining of the EEC, lower trade tarrifs, economic and travel benefits and the benefits of belonging to a large organisation that can make better trade deals with China and other big nations.
We also get free medical treatment abroad, the Human Rights act that protects our civil liberties and many rights to protect workers.
Watch this video to see why we should stay in the EU.
I am re-posting a comment I just got from a Peter Bowers on a recent article on the BREXIT Referendum.
I thought I would re-post as I suspect it will reflect the views of many people who like parts of the EU or Europe but not others.
Please feel free to comment with your own views on the EU vote.
I want to stay in the EU but just wish it would be reformed so it goes back to just being a trading block with some shared security and economic policies that are fair to all countries.
I don't like the fact Germany is the most powerful country in the EU and can stamp all over Greece. Both have fiddled their figures during their time in the EU but Germany gets away with it as they are the most powerful nation in the block.
I like being able to travel freely in the EU and don't want to lose the ability to go and move to Spain or France if I wanted to but I also don't want thousands of migrants jumping on vans at the EU tunnel.
It's hard as I know they won't reform as I want them to they have had 50+ years to do so and haven't yet so what hope is there that they will.
What gets me is we haven't heard much about David Cameron's "new deal" with the EU which was supposed to stop us wanting to leave. It obviously isn't worth the paper it is written on otherwise we would be hearing about it all the time.
I agree with quite a lot of that comment. The "Better Together" campaign talk about having to be within the EU to reform it from the inside but they have had over 50 years to make it democratic and all that's happened is that it's become less democratic over time.
I want to be able to travel and live around Europe easily and want free trade and co-operation on security and economic matters.
However what I don't want is a Federal Europe where we are just a state with little power and where our laws are not made in Westminster but Brussels. It is perfectly clear that David Cameron's new agreement with the EU doesn't do any of that. It just makes some small changes to our benefits system, nothing worth mentioning at all.
How do you feel about the "new deal" our Prime Minister made with the EU?
The author of the video offers his reasons for leaving the EU which is
basically our loss of sovereignty by the UK being in the EU.
However this is one persons view of the EU with some snippets and views from David
Cameron and some other people. He fears that if we vote to stay in the EU that
the Germans and French would speed up integration knowing that a UK threat of leaving
had been neutralised.
They want a federal Europe and they have admitted this over and over again. They want
a European army, flag, and shared sovereignty. If we voted to stay in the EU then
this push towards a federal Europe could accelerate.
This person discusses what probably many people feel. That they like Europe,
travelling to France, Germany and Italy, living and holidaying in Spain. Doing
business with European countries and co-operating with them over security and other
important matters.
However what they don't like is the concept of a "Federal Europe".
We have a
different criminal justice system to most of Europe and don't want to be a "state"
like Arkansas in a USA style, federal Europe where our laws are made over the channel
and democracy seems further away than it already is.
It ends with a speech by Daniel Hannan in the USA about the rights of man and
how the loss of UK freedom due to the EU can be linked back to the founding
fathers.
What I must add is that even if we leave the EU we are still living under a Monarchy,
a Queen who as "the crown", would probably never be prosecuted for a crime. Can you
ever imagine a policeman trying to arrest her, whatever crime she had
committed?
So if we want real full control over our lives we would be a republic with an elected
President and not a monarch who gets their position by blood and birth and who
owns the most land across the world. I do not
believe that she is worth paying our taxes to support her luxurious life because she
is just a "tourist attraction".
I believe that no-one is above or below me in the hierarchy of life and having a
Royal family that our unwritten constitution puts above us is immoral and
wrong.
So do you believe that the question of sovereignty is the most important factor in a
decision to leave the EU or are other factors more important?
Nigel Farage debating Nick Clegg at the Oxford Union over leaving the EU
This is part of a debate that took place at the Oxford Union over whether Britain should leave the EU.
There were many more participants than the two videos I have shown here but these are two of the more well known voices from either side of the BREXIT debate.
Watch Nigel Farage leader of UKIP discuss his reasons why the UK should leave the EU at the Oxford Union.
Watch Nick Clegg lay out his reasons in the same debate why Britain is better together with the EU.
Both Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage have worked at the EU either as MEP's.
They will take huge pensions when they retire long before us and whilst working at the EU they would have had big expense accounts to fund their job, hire help and so on.
Which argument did you find more convincing, Nick Cleggs or Nigel Farages?
Does the threat of Scotland and maybe Wales leaving the UK if we pull out of the EU make you want to vote for staying in the EU or do you think they have the right to independence anyway?
Will you vote with objectivity or use logic and facts when making your decision. This will affect you and your children for decades to come so I hope it's the latter!
