1)MONEY

Britain pays 350 million pounds a week to be a member of the EU but only recieves
half of this money back in subsidies.
These subsidies are paid to Britain to assist in certain areas like farming and
university grants, amongst others.
Thats about 12 billion pounds that we put into the EU money pot every year.
But last year we only recieved 6 and a half bbillion.
So Britain is subsidising other European countries.
British people are giving 5 and a half billion pounds to other countries every
year.
That money should be spent on improving our health service, education and pensions.
Britain is the second biggest contributor to the EU budget after Germany.
Poland is the biggest receiver.
So why do we pay so much?
The UK is a rich country and the EU says that although it spends less money in the
UK than the national contribution made,
the British economy gets access to European markets and contracts.
So its like an additional tax on everything that we buy from the European Union.
If we were to add this money to the products we buy, they wouldn't seem so cheap,
would they?
If we look at Spain they paid just under 10 billion into the pot last year to be a
member but they took out almost 14 billion.
So I can see why Spain is confused abt the Brexit decision.
Britain is not a cash cow that Europe can milk to get money.

2) We could decide who comes into our country

EU members must allow all EU citizens to enter their country and work without
restrictions.
The right of free movement has allowed hundreds of thousands of Europeans to live
and (sometimes) work in Britain.
There are approximately 3 million Europeans who have migrated to the UK.
The idea of the free movement of people was to allow people to live and work in
other countries without the need to complete mountains of paperwork.
But many of those 3 million moved to Britain to claim state benefits without
contributing into the system and then send this money back to their own countries.
This is possible because the British welfare system is not contribution based
unlike most of the countries in the EU, including Spain.
Britain has one of the best welfare systems in the world and european nationals are
abusing this system.
The migrates are also entitled to free healthcare with no requirement to pay into
the system,
free education-no schoolbooks to buy-,free translators for all national services
like hospitals and police and free housing or assistance with paying rent if you
dont earn enough.
The same cannot be said for other European countries.
Now, to become a Spanish resident you have to have 7,ooo euros in the bank and an
income of 8,400 euros a year or your residency will be denied.
This makes Britain a very good prospect for those who wish to get something for
nothing.
In the 12 months ending in June 2016, an estimated 327,000 EU nationals arrived in
the UK while only 43.000 Britons migrates to Europe

3)We could make our own laws again

Some British laws are passed and implemented because of decisions made at an EU
level.
Business For Britain, a pro-Leave group, reckons 65 per cent of new British laws
are made in Brussels.
The House of Commons Library says that between 1993 and 2014, a total of 231 Acts
of Parliament were passed because of EU membership, 24 per cent of the total.
In 2010, the UK government estimated that about 50 per cent of UK legislation with
significant economic impact originates from EU legislation.
The British government is not always able to change the laws in their own country.
They have to ask the EU if they can do it first.
Many people may argue that the EU laws protect things like employment rights and
climate change regulations, but the fact of the matter is that Britain was one of
the leaders in bringing about these laws.
But having laws controlled by the Eu on things like who should be able to get
welfare and prisoners should have the right to vote are all things that the UK
disagrees with and is forced to accept.
So in the fairness of democracy, the British people voted for their government and
so therefore their government should be the people making the laws, not some EU
member of parliament who has never even been to Britain
When Britain joined the EEC in 1972, Parliament accepted that European law could
have primacy over UK law.
That law is ultimately overseen by the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg.
The courts power has grown steadily, and the Lisbon Treaty gave it power over 135
areas of criminal justice policy;
We wouldnt have to accept decisions forced on us by other countries
Many EU decisions are taken under qualified majority voting rules, where
countries voting weights depend on their size.
Britain may be a wealthy country but it is small.
That means smaller countries can be outvoted, forced to accept decisions with which
they disagree.
Britain is outvoted more often than any other country, mainly due to its land
area.
Between 2009 and 2015, Britain was on the losing side of 12 per cent of decisions.
By contrast, France ,which is a much larger country, was on the losing side of less
than 1 per cent of votes.
The areas where Britain was most often outvoted included the EU budget and EU
foreign and security policy.
This is not fair especially considering that we pay the 2nd largest contribution.
We could set our own tax rates
The EU wants to harmonise the rate of VATand the goods to which it applies.
VAT must be at least 15 per cent but can be cut to 5 per cent on certain specified
items.
This should be decided by Britain not the EU.

4) We wouldnt have to listen to, or fund, the European Commission

The EU is not a country but it has five presidents.
Donald Tusk is president of the European Council, the group comprised of EU heads
of state and government.
Jean Claude Juncker is president of the European Commission.
Martin Schulz is president of the European Parliament.
Mario Draghi is president of the European Central Bank.
Jeroen Dijsselbloem is president of the Eurogroup of countries using the single
currency.
They wrote a report last year calling for much greater integration of the euro
countries, another step on the road to a superstate.
The European Commission is more than the EU's civil service.
It also has the right to propose new laws and regulations.
It employs around 23,000 officials.
In 2011, a think-tank estimated that more than 10,000 Commission staff were paid
more than 70,000.
And who pays for all these burocrats??? Well, Britain pays more than most.
5) We wouldnt have to worry about expansion of the EU
The EU wants to grow even bigger.
There are five countries trying to join at the moment: Turkey, Macedonia,
Montenegro, Serbia and Albania.
To get in, each has to adopt all EU rules and political standards, then accession
has to be approved by the leaders and parliaments of every EU member.
These countries are all poorer than Britain. If they enter any country that is
richer that them will have to subsidise them.
Turkey is Huge with an estimated population of approximately 80 million.
Britain is already seen as the favourite destination for economic migrants and this
would double or even treble if these countries join.

6) We could support British companies in trouble

EU single market rules discourage governments from giving financial support to
private companies, to make sure national champions do not have a commercial
advantage over rivals.
Those rules mean that ministers can't directly bail out companies like Tata Steel.
This will mean that more than 3,000 people lose their jobs.
But Britain should be able to help its own residents first.
These workers have been paying their taxes and when they need money from the
government, they can't get it because of EU law

7) And finally,We wouldn't have to fund EU foreign aid

The EU has its own foreign aid programme to give away your money.
In 2013, it spent almost 15 billion (11.8 billion) on foreign aid, almost exactly
as much as the UK Government.
The UK government spends enough through its own decisions and shouldnt be forced to
pay more.
If the UK stopped spending its own money and only contributed the money it pays to
Europe millions more people would suffer.
The EU aid programme is restricted as to where it spends the money.Britain would be
able to help more people directly if it controlled where all of its aid money went.