Eurosceptics' Criticism of The European Union
Individual complaints about the EU made by Eurosceptics include rising costs of membership, the alleged negative impact of an EU regulatory burden on UK business (including claims that this also affects those businesses engaged in purely domestic exchange or exporting to non-EU markets), and claimed corrosive effects on democracy within all EU member-states, including Britain.
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“However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part of me, but a spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you. When the play, it may be the tragedy, of life is over, the spectator goes his way. It was a kind of fiction, a work of the imagination only, so far as he was concerned.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Long accustomed to the use of European manufactures, [the Cherokee Indians] are as incapable of returning to their habits of skins and furs as we are, and find their wants the less tolerable as they are occasioned by a war [the American Revolution] the event of which is scarcely interesting to them.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.”
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