Another Reason Why you Should Vote "No" on EU

Fire of Liberty

As the French and the Dutch contemplate voting "yes" or "no" on the EU Referendum at the end of this month, the Members of the European Parliament have provided a good reason why they should vote no. According to this article in The Financial Times, the MEP has struck a blow to the UK economy by voting 378-262 to eliminate the UK's opt-out from the EU's 48 hour work week. It's a crying shame that a sovereign nation cannot even make changes to their work week because a supranational body like the MEP and the Council of Ministers decide they know best. Throughout my years of studying governments, I can say that the national government of the UK has a better knowledge of their own economy and the people who work in these various businesses rather than the 640 member MEP which also has members from all of the 25 member nation's of the EU. You can't put a national policy like this is in the hands of a massive organization like the EU bureaucracy which doesn't have to answer to the UK voting public come election time.

As a small-government conservative, I know that an economy that has too many regulations like the MEP has imposed on the UK is doomed to fail. When a company can only work someone for only 48 hours in a week they will become highly constrained and unable to get the productivity that they could get from workers who were willing to work for more hours a get paid overtime. A person should not be restrained on how many hours they can work because the MEP's from other nations believe that they should. One only has to look at France and it's 35 hour work rules to understand how damaging these rules are to an economy. With these rules, the French economy has been basically put into an enormous stall that has amassed an atrocious un-employment rate of 10 percent. With so many constraints on the amount of time a worker can work in France, the various businesses can't keep up with their competitors from other nations because they usually experience a massive cut back on their production thus prompting the owners to pick up stakes and move to a more business friendly nation.

If the French would only lift such a constrictive policy and create a more friendly environment for these businesses and allow a flexible work schedule, they would experience a stratospheric boost to the economy with companies returning to France. One only has to look at the US and various other nations that don't have such tight restrictions and see how they have low unemployment numbers, growing economies and workers taking home more income because they're getting paid overtime. I guess this is what happens when various socialist members of the government has their claws in what goes on in these nations. What's more worrisome is the fact that the MEP is filled with socialists who are more than willing to find ways to constrain the more successful nations and their flexible work rules.

I hope the UK can convince the various member states who have flexible work rules to side with it in the 25 EU Council of Ministers and remove such a odious breech of national sovereignty which blights a nation's economy. One can only imagine what these MEP's could think up next or impose on the 25 member states of the EU. This decision by the MEP's should be a big flashing example of why the French and Dutch should vote "non" and "neen" at the end of this month. Losing one's sovereignty is a huge price to pay to join the EU.