CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC REASONS FOR BRITAIN NOT TO JOIN THE EU (from Sean Gabb) “E

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(from Sean Gabb)

“England is bound by its trade, its markets, its food supplies to the most varied and often very distant countries. Her activity is essentially industrial and commercial not agricultural. She has very strong, very individual habits and traditions. In short, the nature, structure and circumstances peculiar to England are different from those of the other continental countries.”

“The difference is temperamental and intellectual. The continental[s] like to reason from the top downwards, from general principle to practical application … the tradition of St. Thomas Aquinas. The Anglo-Saxons like to argue from the bottom upwards, from practical experience … the tradition of Bacon and Newton.”

“The EU doesn’t respect the rule of law.” …. “The EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights purports to ‘give’ Britons rights we’ve enjoyed under Common Law for a thousand years! But a sinister clause allows the EU to ‘suspend’ these rights if it deems that to be in its collective interest.”