To be angry about the EU budget?

Yes! One thing we can genuinely thank Gordon Brown for, although rumour has it he only turned against the Euro because Tony Blair was so keen on adopting it!

Well yes janthea but the pound has undergone massive devaluation as a result of Mervyn King's quantitative easing.

I know which currency I prefer and it's not the Euro!

Quite aside from how unwieldy it's proving to marry up so many different member states with varying attitudes towards a common monetary policy, depending of course whether in fact you happen to be a contributor or a receiver, it occurs to me in spite of bringing us all together as one homogeneous mass relations between some countries have reached an all time low. Of late whenever Angela Merkel has to visit somewhere in southern Europe she has to run the gauntlet of swastika signs and Nazi salutes. I know how Germany must feel, many a time I've said to my children "I'm Germany and you're Greece, if I lend you this amount of money, I want it back", and they have on occasions defaulted! France it seems to me never misses a chance to have a snide dig at the UK these days so much for entente cordiale where has that disappeared to! All those politicians of yesteryear such as Heath who thought the only way of avoiding another world war was to form a united states of Europe were way off the mark.

Ted Heath sold The Common Market to us as a means of belonging to a trading union, not the dictatorship we have allowed it to become.

We weren't informed how Brussels would overrule Parliament, and have the final say on practically everything we do.

Due to Human Rights legislation, we are not allowed to deport evil criminals from our shores, and it costs the taxpayer £millions fighting our case and paying their families benefits.

What's in the EU for us?

Very little, it seeems! Britain is one of the EUs highest contributors, and one of the few countries to receive less money than we pay in.

Our country is suffering severe cuts in all areas, yet if we did not have to contribute to the increasing budget of the EU, we would be much better off financially.

If we are given a referendum, I know which way I will vote, many people are sick and tired of subsidising the EU gravy train.

I also agree with everyone, if the councils etc gave to make cuts so must the EU. I would prefer to be out of the EU