Janice Small

The EU writes 6 out of 10 of our laws. Since May to September of this year it has passed 662 laws.

The EU costs every family £2000 a year, according to independent calculation.

Britain pays roughly twice as much in as we get back, while countries that are richer than Britain take out more than they put in.

EU red tape and bureaucracy costs business £40bn.

We cannot control our own immigration policies and deport criminals to other EU countries because of the primacy of EU law.

Home Information Packs is an EU directive, cost on average £300.

The constitution creates a European foreign policy, complete with an EU Foreign Minister and diplomatic corps.

The constitution creates a European criminal justice system, with a European Public Prosecutor and an EU legal code; this runs directly counter to our own common law tradition.

The EU proposes to end the Queen’s message to British citizens advising them that they may seek help from British embassies around the world. Instead it will be replaced with an EU message.

It is estimated that the Common Agricultural Policy costs every family £1,500 in higher food bills and taxes Weights and measures still have to be measured in kilos even though a new ruling ‘allowed’ the UK to retain pounds and ounces.

EU Eurocrats, over there and paid for by us. The EU now has 63,000 civil servants.

The EU spends £200m a year ferrying euo-MPs back and forth between its two parliament buildings in Brussels and Strasbourg, every month.

New booster seats for our cars to restrain children up to 12 years old is an EU directive.

The Common Fisheries Policy does not allow British fisherman to fish in parts of British waters, this is not conservation but protectionism for French and Spanish fishing fleets.

Migrants from the EU will be allowed to claim social security under the free movement of people.

We pay more into the EU - £10.5 billion a year – more than we spend on the police.

The Northern Rock financial crisis could have been averted but for the fact of an EU directive that stated the Bank of England had to publicise what was happening rather allowing the Bank of England to quietly solve the problem.

The EU is to tax mobility scooters as they are defined as racing vehicles.

The EU has axed the Crown symbol from our pint glasses and replaced it with an EU symbol.

The government will introduce pictorial health warnings on cigarette packets showing close-ups of diseased lungs and the corpses of those that have died from smoking-related diseases. This is as a result of an EU directive.

· The government plans to introduce compulsory water metering. This is EU an directive.

· Councils are being forced to re-think their rubbish collection service. This is due to the EU Landfill tax which penalises locally elected councils for non-compliance.

· We cannot repeal the Human Rights Act to redress the balance between victim and criminal because of the European Convention on Human Rights which is inextricably linked to our membership of the EU.

Parents and teachers would like to see a ban on certain food additives as there is a proven link between the additives and hyperactivity in children. Yes, you guessed it, our own Food Standards Agency cannot intervene because it no longer has the power to do so as it has handed over its power to the European Food Standards Safety Authority.