Can the US be relied upon?

[I_am_not_mafia]

I did provide evidence, or certainly pointed in the direction of the evidence;

So let's remove the pointless links that you are adding in to pad out your post (unless you want to say something about them that is)

referendum results

EU Tariffs (For those that don't seem to know what they are)

... and let's look at the links which you provided which could possibly be used as evidence for your statement that "Regarding leaving the EU; Brussels has ignored us for 30 years and pushed ahead with projects to which we object at a fundamental level."

VAT on sanitary products

Tampons and other ‘sanitary protection products’ are currently classed as ‘luxury’, ‘non-essential’ products, and the government have stated that EU rules stop them from lowering the VAT any further than 5% or scrapping the tax entirely.

Germany scraps 'tampon tax,' as menstrual products not a 'luxury'

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How come Ireland and Malta don't have a tampon tax then? They are in the EU. Sounds like an excuse by the British government to keep the tampon tax and blame the EU instead.

EU fines

A consistent problem, arising from the way EU legislation is designed, is that penalties for breaking EU rules are not set consistently across the bloc.

So you're arguing that each country has freedom to set its own penalties for breaking EU rules and that this is a bad thing? And that this is a reason for leaving the EU? To do what instead?

Would you prefer it then if the EU specified the penalties that we should set?

Common Fisheries Policy

Privatising the seas: how the UK turned fishing rights into a commodity

Once again, the British government has sold off the family silver and blamed someone else.

“In essence, fisheries have been accidentally privatised,” New Economics Foundation researcher Griffin Carpenter told MPs tasked with scrutinising the fisheries bill. “Every year, quota is allocated to the same holders, and there is a legitimate expectation that that continues in future.

“The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and other organisations are too scared to break that hold on the quota and say, ‘This year we will allocate quota differently.’ It has not been done; it is basically privatised now the claim is so strong.

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Name them? Common Agricultural policy, Common Fisheries Policy, Common Currency, EU Army, Federalisation, VAT, Trade Tariffs, Fiscal penalties for infringement of EU regs undermining the justice system, weren't you paying attention at any point in the last three decades?

Please explain your objection to:

• Common Currency
  
• EU Army
  
• Federalisation
  
• VAT
  
• Trade Tariffs
  
• Fiscal penalties for infringement of EU regs