Brexit, or Not?

Genuine Erosion of Sovereignty

Should Britain leave the EU?  Former Aussie Prime Minister, John Howard believes it should.  One contextual factor here is that Britain is widely uncomfortable with its EU membership, so much so that it is trying to negotiate more and more "carve outs" for Britain.  Howard believes this is tantamount to Britain wanting to be half-pregnant.  

“If I were British, I would vote to leave,” Mr Howard told the Sky News Australia on Sunday morning.  “The British people are, in effect, being asked to support an arrangement … where Britain is half in, half out and I just don’t think that is going to work.” [Breitbart London]

There are many problems with remaining in the EU.  Not the least is the deliberate, progressive loss of sovereignty for Great Britain (and all European nations).
It's enough to make NZ's anti-free trade protesters froth at the mouth for a thousand years.  The Eurocrats want to make member states nothing more than the equivalent of a state within the United States, with sovereignty and political power concentrated upon elites in Brussels.

Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard has urged Britain to exit the European Union (EU) because it is a “fundamentally flawed concept” that is an “affront to the sovereignty of its member countries.” . . .

“The European Union is an affront to the sovereignty of its member countries,” he said.  “Britain can’t really control her borders, and she can’t really exercise the sort of authority when it comes to negotiating free trade agreements,” he said, adding that Britain could not strike a free-trade agreement with China as an example.

“It went too far, and once you set in motion the process towards political integration it either becomes unstoppable, or it begins to fall apart and I think on either ground there is a case for Britain leaving.” 

We think Howard is right.