There is a salutary lesson to be learned here, and that is ‘’ 40 plus years, after De Gaulle finally relented and allowed to join his little club , at an extremely high membership fee, they still do not like us , or have forgiven us for saving their bacon in 1939- 45. De Gaulle never forgave us from saving him and France from the Nazi hordes!
The Common Fisheries Policy has been a National Disaster for the UK, as U.K. fishing was and remains decimated , to allow the French to plunder our coastal waters , and then there is the waste , perhaps , millions of tons of fish by throwing them back to die- did I mention the extremely high membership fee???..
The Common Agriculture Policy has caused artificially high food prices, in order to pay huge amounts to keep peasant farmers alive – mainly French! Some will argue that without a ride on the gravy train UK farming would suffer, and that is true, but who pays the fare – the UK. Taxpayers of course and each and every one of us via artificially high food prices.
Btw have I mentioned the extremely high membership fee?
The numbers of people employed by the EU is costing billions each year , mainly to keep the two policies above going.
So then we come to one of Project Fear’s main arguments ( as with all their nonsense, A totally one sided bias towards the EU ) the multi million miles of trucks lined up at Dover with drivers starting out quite young , but collecting their pensions before they get to the Boat or Chunnel – ok I exaggerate, a bit, but there are two sides to every story, and the other side is based in Calais, where the Port chief, and the local Mayor are apparently going nuts over the lack of a deal as they are going to be overwhelmed – so, damage on both sides