Will These National Barriers Being Erected Be A Help Or Hindrence?

[LewPaper]

With the refugee problems sweeping across Europe will this be a help or a hindrance to David Cameron's renegotiations of our continued membership of the EU?
I'll go further, has it made any difference to our interest in our continued membership of the EU? Should we revert to just the Common Market concept which was our original intention?

[dannyk13]

Yes, revert back to the concept of a Common Market

[LewPaper]

Hiya Danny. I think so too, perhaps go back even further to the way it used to be in the European Free Trade agreement where we could still trade with NZ for our sheep and butter, Argentina for our beef and anyWHERE else for anyTHING else that was in our best interests.

[Old_Geezer]

Transporting produce from the other side of the globe is hardly ideal.

I do not think one's opinion of the EU is going to change simply because of an immigration crisis and temporary emergency bars to the foolish cross border agreement. Nor do I think it'll change these futile negotiations Dave is getting involved in either.

The concept of a common market (sans free movement of finance and labour) was a fine idea but I understand it was only the UK who were sold it. The rest fully bought into the "one nation really" carp. Still, countries outside the EU manage to trade with the block so no real reason we could not also. Assuming the block remains in existence long enough.

[jourdain2]

I, like everybody else, never voted for the European Union and have always been of the opinion that we were 'conned' and should revert to the concept of the 'Common Market'. At the moment rules prevent us from trading as we should wish with other areas of the world. We would survive perfectly well - possibly even better given the current situation - on the outside.

The refugees will help D.C. to get an agreement over borders and 'Free Movement' and enable him to subfusc economic arguments, something we must watch out for. Where they may come a cropper is in the refugee problems having released a lot of pent-up feelings from people who have at last realised that they are not in a tiny minority, as they thought they were, but quite normal. This will swell opposition, I think.