Supporters' Archive


SUPPORTERS' ARCHIVE

MISCELLANEOUS SUPPORTERS:
Harry Aldridge	"We are most definitely Better Off Out."
Richard Aitkins	"I support the BETTER OFF OUT campaign."
Tim Aker	"I support the Better Off Out campaign because my generation haven't lived in an independent Britain. All we have witnessed is capitulation after surrender to Brussels of the sovereignty we barely know. Thanks to groups like this we can start the campaign to reclaim British national sovereignty and make sure that we live in a country governed from Westminster, a government chosen by British people and not faceless Eurocrats."
George Anderton	"I have made a few mistakes in my life but none do I regret more than voting to go into the European Union in the 1975 referendum. I have become increasingly convinced that it is high time we left this corrupt, undemocratic and costly institution. It is an extravagance we cannot afford. That is why I support the BETTER OFF OUT campaign."
Andy	"The Templars support any just causes and this is exactly that. We have no problem with Europe-wide co-operation in the interests of protectionism – which appears to be the sole valid argument in favour of supra-nationalism - however the EU totally oversteps the mark and infringes upon our basic democratic rights of self-determination. We find this fact in addition to the objectionable cost of membership to be totally unacceptable."
Christopher Arkell	"I am a Better Off Out Tory - i.e. a BOOT boy. My BOOT is aimed firmly at the fat rump of Euroland. Once kicked energetically, it will sag and collapse. Out of its dying guts will crawl those nations it has swallowed over the last 50-odd years. This is a perennial activity, taking place roughly twice a century (for the last 300 years or so)."
Ant Astley	"One day I shall peer over the edge of my cloud and see what's going on down here - and I wouldn't forgive myself if I'd not done my utmost to fight the EU."
Mary Astley	"We cannot stand by and let the politicians shuffle us over the abyss."
David Austin	"If you do not wish to lose your country, along with its power over its own affairs, its culture and its very identity, now is the time to act. The European Union is at the present time in a state of flux. The British people have long lost patience with it, as have many of the other people of Europe - as I know from personal experience. To do otherwise would, in the long run, be to destroy Britain financially, spiritually and culturally. Now is the best chance you will ever get to claim back your country, fully and completely. We, in Britain, should give the rest of Europe an example and leave as soon as possible."
Charles Ball	"Good stuff, people, lets get our country back and withdraw from the EU, a centralised, undemocratic joke."
David Beagley	"As founder of the North Devon Branch of UKIP, I believe that the EU has effectively invaded our country and our way of life, dictating our every move. If we are to remain an individual country we must get out. All the other parties want to go for complete political union and this will financially and politically cripple us. If we want to stay 'British and proud of it' we must get out quickly before it is too late and the EU have taken away our right to self determination."
David Becalick	"I attended the UKIP conference and am trying to put issue above tribal loyalty which, I'm afraid, is growing in UKIP, as the Conservatives, and their friends in the press, fail time and time again to make the noises that are required. If you want Britain out - come and join us - cross the floor to the first-past-the-post-ante-room and join us like Christopher Gill has just done. Yes this is bigger than party politics, but your party got us into this mess and we expect you to change policy or join us. Soap Box away."
Derek Bennett	"As from next year, 2007, our net payments to the EU will reach £6 billion. Year on year we give this money and over the years we see our influence as a nation diminish whilst the cost of membership increases. There is little money for our hospitals, cancer patients have to sue for life saving medication, our pensions are a massive black hole, our council taxes continue to rise and our Chancellor continues to find even more devious ways to tax us. Lets keep our money in the UK for our benefit, not to be squandered, lost and swallowed in fraud in the EU. I agree, we can be nothing else but better off out of the EU."
Alan Bennett-Turner	"The sooner the better!"
Iris Binstead	"The EU is undemocratic, corrupt, wasteful, extremely expensive, outdated, bureaucratic, unnecessarily interfering and thoroughly damaging to our way of life, our laws, our human rights, our economy, our industry and commerce."
Chris Birks .	"Please get us out of the European Union now! Britain's heritage is slowly being chipped away by the faceless European Bureaucrats making the decisions and over-riding our Legal Systems. Britain is better off out. Turkey is the next country to join the EU. Do we really want all those extremists and asylum seekers coming to Britain and making it even more of a hell-hole?? Let's do something about it, BETTER OFF OUT!!"
Mary Bower	"A strategy must be formed to give the people of Britain a referendum on Europe. We are being denied an opportunity to be heard. The sooner we leave the European Community the better for our country. I fully support Better Off Out."
Carole Bragg	"The only people who still support the EU are the ones who are on, or hoping to get on the gravy train."
John Broughton	"Leaving the corrupt EU is the only way that the UK can regain its independence and take control of our destiny again. 80% of our legislation is created in Brussels and rubber stamped by an inept committee in Westminster, what a shame that only 6 MPs had sufficient time to attend the launch of BETTER OFF OUT and start the process to regain their integrity and worth to their fellow Britons."
William Bryan MHCIMA	"I am 100% behind you and the BETTER OFF OUT campaign. I hope that it gathers apace and I look forward to a day without EU shackles looming ever closer."
Roger Bullock	"I wholeheartedly support the campaign, and have been doing so for over 12 years. Best of luck!"
Richard Burden	"Many congratulations to their Lordships for their letter to The Daily Telegraph today!!"
Richard Carbutt	"This campaign has my support. The disadvantages of being part of the EU far outweigh any gain we might make by continued membership. It is time for politicians to listen to those whom they claim to represent and take note of, an act on, the views of the electorate of this country."
Gerard Carroll	"I certainly support the better off out campaign. I want to know why eurosceptic politicians, particularly Tory ones, have not pointed out to the British Public that the recession following "black Wednesday" was nothing to do with Thatcherite economics, but purely the result of Norman Lamont's (and other europhiles across all parties) ill starred attempt to buck the market in the interest of "ever closer union". I think any credible campaign to get us out of the EU quangocracy has to have the above as an element of the campaign, and it might go some way to rehabilitate the Tory party’s (the eurosceptic wing at least) reputation for economic probity. After all, Gordon Brown is guilty of at least as much waste of UK foreign and gold reserves if the truth be known."
Jonathan Cheal	"I support the BETTER OFF OUT campaign."
Carole Chesters	"My initial feelings that the Common market would be of no benefit to the UK has born fruit. Yet I would even be prepared to return to that, than the shambles which the EU has become. It is our money that keeps most of Europe in prosperity whilst our hospitals, not theirs, are a shadow of their former selves. Our prisons are bursting with foreign born (guests) and crime is allowed to increase to terrifying new levels. We need the chance to use our money to improve the rail transport, it needs to be cheap, like most of their subsidised railways are, it needs to take most of the heavy loads from off our roads, we need to have our streets free of the huge lorries that are going to finish off what Hitler began. I know the powers think that we must support the EU to prevent war, well that's a joke!! Anyhow Norway and Switzerland prove how much better off we should be. Perhaps we could then find time to address the fishing industry and still buy our butter from New Zealand."
John Chippington	"I am convinced our country would be better off outside the EU not just economically but we would again be a proud independent nation free to form alliances with whoever we like, as we have been for hundreds of years. And free to make our own laws and repeal them if they don't work. The idea of becoming a mere subservient state in a federation called Europe is to me abhorrent. We have been dictated to by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels for far too long."
Dane Clouston	"Many thanks for what you are doing."
Theresa Cole	"The money we contribute to the the European Union could be put to much better use if it were to stay in this country. I can see no benefits to our country in staying in Europe - only negatives."
John Coles	"Well done - at last, a Tory MP who has the courage to say publicly what the majority think privately. If this was party policy, we'd be points ahead in the Polls. Instead we have "Vote Blue, Go Green." Yes and puke technicolour. Anyway, good for you Mr Davies."
Andrew Constantine MA FCA	"While sceptical of the EU for some years, it was only recently that I understood what a threat it represents to our Parliamentary democracy. Even in my own area of expertise (corporate tax) which is supposedly not a competence of the EU, recent ECJ judgements by its federally minded judges have undermined the UK's tax system and hit our public finances. I feel that the British public are at last realising that the UK really has to leave the EU if we are to have a real democracy."
Denis Cooper	"Well done! Let's get as many leaflets out as possible."
Charles Cresswell	"I support the BETTER OFF OUT campaign."
David Curtis	"I totally agree with Better Off Out."
Matt Davies	"I am 100% behind your campaign and salute the MPs who put country before career and signed up to it. I will do all I can to support this effort."
John Dearing	"I voted yes in the 1975 Referendum but began to turn euro-sceptic when I saw how the government's policy on the shipbuilding industry for which I worked in the 1980s was largely dictated to by Brussels. What is needed is a simple free trade association with no political ties."
David Demaine	"I strongly believe the UK should withdraw from the EU and remain a member of just the EEA. That way we can continue to trade freely with Europe, but not be ruled by Brussels. Norway and Iceland are members of the EEA, but not the EU. According to the UN Human Development Survey of 2005 Norway has the highest standard of living in the world, with Iceland coming in second - this to me speaks volumes! I believe one of the main reasons that Norwegians vote against the joining the EU, is that it would interfere with their high standard of living. It is interesting to note that UK has a much larger economy than the those countries, yet we only have the 18th highest standard of living in the world. This maybe something to do with huge amounts of cash we pay into the EU, getting relatively little in return."
Oliver Diggle	"I support the BETTER OFF OUT campaign."
Marc Dunkley	"Having been only a year old in 1975, I have had absolutely no say whatsoever in who should govern Britain? Admittedly, both my parents at the time (together with countless others) had been deluded into supporting what they were led to believe was nothing more than a Common Market trading agreement that would not in anyway impinge on our national sovereignty. Needless to say they were lied to. In fact no one currently under the age of 49 has ever been able to vote in such a referendum, even though this age group has a huge stake in the future of our country. After all, if Norway and Switzerland can prosper outside of the European Union, then why can't a country with the world's fifth largest economy whose EU counterparts earn far more out of trading with us than we do out of trading with them? Yet it appears increasingly obvious, in spite of the French and Dutch 'No' votes last year on the proposed EU Constitution, that Eurofederalist politicians are still intent on pushing ahead with ever deeper political union in the hope of securing themselves a seat onboard the 'Euro gravy train'. All this at a time when the European Union is becoming more illiberal, more bureaucratic, more costly to finance, and owing to enlargement - even more remote. Certainly we need a referendum, not on the Constitution but on membership itself. From that I could say Britain would be BETTER OFF OUT!"
Peter Dunn	"I have long thought that the E.U. is an undemocratic, wasteful and anti-British institution. Would that we could have a referendum on withdrawal, with the cost (not only economic) of British membership honestly debated. It might even begin to remove the apathy of present day voters to our political campaigns if voters felt that there was any point in voting in a British campaign that was not automatically subject to approval by our European masters."
Graham Eardley	"There must be something better for us British subjects than the European Union - this organisation which year after year fails to have its accounts passed by its own auditors, because of match-funding fiddles by unscrupulous national governments and other accounting errors; that interferes with every aspect of its citizens' lives and has plans to quell dissension by making plans that any criticism against will be against the law; that once a month has to move its parliament from Brussels to Strasbourg at its taxpayers' expense; that has all but tried to kill off British farming through the CAP and the Fishing Industry through the CFP. And there is something far better - it's called the sovereign United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland."
Sir George Earle	"As a UKIP man, I was greatly encouraged when I first heard about the BOO campaign in early May. I wish it every success and in particular I wholeheartedly support our Leader Nigel Farage's pledge reported on your website."
Judith East	"I support this long overdue call for us to leave the EU."
David Elliott	"The EU is of little if any benefit to the British people. If our politicians cannot or will not see that then they should resign and stand for election in any other EU country of their choice as they choose not to represent the British people."
Bud Ellis	"The sooner we get out of the EU the better. Adolf must be laughing his head off as everything he wanted to do to Britain has already been done by Parliament. Treason is the name of the game, combine that with criminals running the show and you arrive at the result we now have. Anarchy rules supreme."
John Elton	"I support the BETTER OFF OUT campaign - without a shadow of a doubt!"
M. R. Emmett	"The EU as presently constituted is a top-down, centralized, undemocratic, wasteful, bureaucratic and protectionist organisation which is costing this country dear. Moreover it will be increasingly expensive following Blair's cave-in in December 2005. Citizens of this country have been very poorly served by all their political leaders. This is typified by Kenneth Clark's cheerful admission some years ago that he had never read the Maastricht Treaty. By contrast the French have been much more fortunate: their politicians have successfully striven over the years to ensure that the EU rules are entirely to their benefit. It is high time to leave."
Colin Evans	"We know and they know that we know, it is a sham! A very costly sham for Britain. Who in their right minds would want to be in any way associated with, let alone governed by, the Continental Corruption Club. With fingers in pies, exorbitant expenses, luxury jollies, jobs/pensions for life and freedom from prosecution, they must think the gravy train will never stop . . . But more and more people of this great nation are DETERMINED to derail the monster."
Trevor Farrer CBE	"I support the BETTER OFF OUT campaign."
John Faulkner	"I don't object to the European Union in principle, there are arguments for and against - what I strongly object to is that Ted Heath invited us to vote in a referendum about a Common Market, not a European Union! That deception ruins any pro-European argument. Let's have a real debate and a real referendum."
Lady Fieldhouse	"The Better Off Out campaign is firmly resonating with the British people, who are sick and tired of the on-going loss of our sovereignty, and seeing European Union laws taking precedence over our own laws. At last they are expressing their anger and I am sure that a referendum now would produce a vast majority for withdrawal. The billions we spend on useless EU projects are desperately needed for our own failing public services, such as the National Health Service and education. Let us put Britain first, again."
Mark Fletcher	"I support the BETTER OFF OUT campaign."
Peter Fluck	"I support the BETTER OFF OUT campaign and, as a Conservative, congratulate my party's MPs who offer their support. A far better way of countering a loss of votes to UKIP than, in my opinion, insulting the latter's voters on the radio."
Roger Foster OBE FCIOB	"It has long been my personal view that we should get out and govern ourselves - as we did very successfully for centuries - and not be ruled by those who only want to be seen to be in the European Commission organisation or taking part in the organisation for their own personal benefit. Involved in development work as a consultant, I find some of the new regulations of the European Union just copied into our regulations without full examination by our so called government are really doing nothing good for the construction industry and only causing prices to rise."
Jo Fowler	"You have my wholehearted support for your campaign to put an end to our membership of the badly run, economically corrupt EU. I am particularly incensed to learn from "Dave" that we are not even thinking of leaving the EPP before 2009."
Idris Francis	"I first realised the EU was doomed - in economic terms - in 1991 - when I heard they planned to make working more than 48 hours a week a criminal offence. Everything I have learned since then, in thousands of hours of study and meetings, serves only to emphasise that view. But it is also doomed in terms of democracy - there isn't intended to be any - and popular dissent. It is increasingly obvious that people across Europe have had it up to here with the EU, and that the only safe place to be is outside the last gate of the prison as it is slammed shut."
Edward Franklin	"We must leave this so called common market and take our country back, out of the hands of unelected free-loaders. Please save our country."
Annabelle Fuller	"I support the BETTER OFF OUT campaign"
John Gallon	"Politicians express their concern that the general public have become disengaged from the political process. They cite the poor turn out in local and national elections as evidence. I believe if the question of continued European Union membership was addressed to the nation directly the response would indicate a huge interest in the governance of Britain."
Christopher Gillibrand MA MBA	"I definitely support the BETTER OFF OUT campaign. From under the Babylonian Tower!"
John Gouriet	"Thirty years ago, as those who have seen Tory! Tory! Tory! on BBC2 recently will be reminded, the National Association for Freedom (now The Freedom Association) was leading and helping to win the battle against leftwing extremism that was threatening to subvert our nation and turn Britain into a Soviet cat's-paw. We were in the vanguard and at the cutting-edge of Thatcherism. Today our country is in no less danger of being swallowed up by a new soviet – the European Union; and once again our politicians, with few exceptions, in all parties are pandering to expediency, betraying the people and failing in their duty. Once more The Freedom Association has stepped into the breach. I am therefore delighted to support its latest initiative, combining with others whenever bad men associate, to promote a national petition in favour of leaving the EU before we are irreversibly absorbed, if as seems certain it cannot be reformed to Britain's satisfaction. We are indeed 'better off out'!"
Adrian Grant	"I've just spent a chunk of my lunchtime catching up on the eurosceptic www. I was horrified to find that the ridiculous proposal to force us to use car headlights at all hours has been passed by the Euro-'parliament' and that as usual our 'Government' is powerless to oppose it, despite their obligation to do so given that they themselves state that it will cost lives in the UK. It's yet another example of the way in which the UK is no longer a self-governing state. Furthermore – why have we heard so little of the headlights issue in the media? Oh yes – because they’re all pro-EU and won’t give coverage to anything that shows the EU in a bad light! I have been opposed to the EEC/EC/EU since I was first able to understand politics. I have never had any opportunity democratically to express an opinion on the EU as the only referendum was held before I was born, let alone old enough to vote (and concerned a trading group, not a political body). At least I am able now to vote UKIP at every opportunity! Keep up the good work!
John Grant	"I support the BETTER OFF OUT campaign."
Delphine Gray-Fisk	"Why the Conservative elite continues to believe in this corrupt and ailing club I fail to understand. For years it has been abundantly obvious that we would be better off out. Congratulations to those inspired to launch this campaign!"
Derek Green	"I voted to enter the Common Market as it was described by Ted Heath as a free trade area which would NOT affect our sovereignty. He lied. It is becoming like a boa constrictor. We MUST get out before we have our independence squeezed out of us."
Duncan Green	"Common trading market YES. Ruled by Europe NO"
Mike Hamilton	"I definitely support the BETTER OFF OUT campaign."
Dr. Charles Hanson	"As far as I am concerned, this campaign is the best thing that has happened since I was bamboozled into voting in favour of the European Economic Community (the so-called Common Market) in the referendum in 1975. I am baffled by the deferential attitude of the United Kingdom's political leaders towards the European Union. The EU is an undemocratic shambles and our continuing membership must be very damaging to our fundamental principles of freedom and democracy as well as our economy. Surely there must come a point at which our misguided political leaders understand that we would be Better Off Out. May the current campaign hasten that day."
Richard Harding	"Peugeot at Coventry are closing their plant with hundreds of British jobs going with it. Why? Because it is cheaper to produce cars with Romanian labour than with British. So Peugeot are transferring their production from Coventry to Romania. That is what the European Union means. Some Union! It no longer takes much effort to demonstrate to those workers the cost in their lives and the craziness of the European Union. The workers of Ryton now see the truth, too late for them I am afraid. Let us encourage them to convey the message to the others throughout the land that we are far BETTER OFF OUT!"
Joy Harker	"All the many, many patriotic UK citizens who walk the "Let's get our country back" pathway, (no matter which group, organisation or party they support, and whatever their national or ethnic origins) must co-operate with one another in order to restore our precious democracy. Remember Gandhi's wise words - 'First they ignore you, then they mock you, then they fight you, and then you win'. If we are truly united in our purpose - we will stand and win. There is no other option."
Wayne Harling	"The European Union stands against what students truly believe in, just that many are un-known of the calamities that the EU causes. We want freedom in our own lives and we want free, fair global trade"
Julian Hawksworth	"We would certainly be "Better Off Out" of the EU. It is an undemocratic monolith of "red tape", waste, corruption and mismanagement. It is also costing our country billions of pounds every year."
John Helps	"I support the BETTER OFF OUT campaign."
Martin Hemming	"I think I was perhaps the first pure Tory to support this campaign, when I voted Labour (the only anti-EEC party) in the 1981 Euro-Parliament elections. Many fellow Tories who denounced me for that are now, soundly, on-side!"
Mr & Mrs RD & JBL Henderson	"We do not approve of the way Europe dictates to the member states. It is totally undemocratic. More than half the laws of the UK are now diktats from Brussels and simply bypass Parliament. A lot of these laws from Brussels are unconstitutional yet our so called government rubber stamps them. We feel the UK is better off as an independent sovereign nation."
Paul M. Hendry	"I voted against entry to the EEC in 1972 because I saw that it would lead to a superstate - my prognosis then has been confirmed by events. I much regret that there has not been a greater cross party agreement to alert the British public as to the true nature of what is happening."
Roy Hewson	"Britain should stop adopting rules and regulations from Brussels forthwith. The people of this country voted to be part of a European Common Trading party, not a European super state ruled by faceless bureaucrats in Brussels. We need to keep governments we can vote in and vote out as we the people of Britain feel fit. This country is losing its sovereignty without a shot being fired."
Stephen Hoffman	"I support the BETTER OFF OUT campaign. Before I thought Britain had to stay in the EU, as a requirement so they wouldn't be blacklisted by other EU nations. However now I see to see this as not true, the EU is a barrier to free trade with its socialist monolith protectionist policies and we now need to stand up to it by pulling out. Countries like Norway and Switzerland have never joined the EU and their economies are thriving. The EU is undemocratic and is already trying to sneak parts of the EU Constitution into law even though it was voted against. The EU rules over Parliament and thus weakens parliamentary sovereignty and thus the power of the nation state. If we don't want to lose Britain for ever we need to pull out of this Franco-German project. We are very much better out of the EU, what with its unfair CAP + protectionist policies which don't just disadvantage Britain but many third world countries across the world."
Petrina Holdsworth	"It is lamentable that no one in the leadership of any of the "big three" parties are minded to stand up for British interests. None of them want Parliament to debate the cost/benefit analysis of our membership because they know that to do so would be to open the public's eyes to the shocking truth that we would be much better off out. I support the campaign and hope that it will act as a meeting point for all those who aspire to get our country back from clutches of the EU."
David Hopley	"I just wish to send my 110% support that the UK must leave the EU. Absolutely no doubt about it. We would be millions of miles better off if we left the EU. Then the UK Govt. could concentrate 100% on solving the massive problems here in the UK."
Medea Houghton	"I wholeheartedly support the Better Off Out of EU campaign. The EU has destroyed Natural Medicine here in the UK and our liberal market where people could buy top level supplements and herbs, protected by stringent food laws, has been ruined thanks to the EU Food Supplement Directive and the Herbal Directive. These were passed into UK law through a rigged vote against the wishes of millions. To me as an alternative therapist this was the absolute last straw. I will do all in my power for as long as it takes for Britain to disengage from this anti-democratic corporate state."
Brian Hulme	"Add my vote to get us out of the EU."
Edward Huxley	"Ex Conservative Party member and activist. Left because of John Major & Maastricht. Joined the UKIP - our only hope. Please register my support - this is a fight we must win.
Les Ingram	"We somehow have to alert the general public to what successive governments have done to our country, most of them still have not got a clue to what is really going on, they are too busy being "dumbed down" by all the rubbish they watch on the box. We should make a citizens arrest on Blair and all his cronies for Treason, and hopefully they may all see it on the TV news, that is if the BBC decide it is in the public interest to show it, I wouldn't hold my breath. The only other way is to produce a hard hitting leaflet with all the relevant facts on and put one through every door in the country. It is almost too late, the traitor Blair has almost completed his life's ambition (to totally destroy England) but we must up the anti, and take the fight to him in any way we can."
Kenneth Irvine	"I am delighted to confirm my support for your campaign. In recent weeks and months, the media has reported the plans of the European Union's Commissioners and officials to introduce the Constitution by stealth. As with the Maastricht and Nice treaties, the No votes in national referenda are to be ignored. For the European Union, democracy is an inconvenience that must not inhibit the progress of the federalist "Project". The economic case for membership has been demolished by economists such as Patrick Minford. Countries outside the EU, such as Norway and Switzerland, are prospering, whilst major EU members stagnate under the burden of regulation. I have been, as a loyal member of the Conservative Party, a supporter of Britain's membership of the European Union for nearly 30 years. Recent events, however, demonstrate that it is not possible to reform the EU from within. Britain is BETTER OFF OUT and must provide the necessary leadership to build an alternative to the EU that is based on free trade and open markets. Good luck with the campaign."
Thomas Johnson	"I support the BETTER OFF OUT campaign. We must work to make the campaign a success and not just hope that it will be so."
Mal Jones	"I support the BETTER OFF OUT campaign."
Matt Jones	"This is a secret society run for the benefit of an elite few. We get worse than nothing out of the deal. We are better off out."
Roger Jones	"We absolutely MUST get out! The alternative does not bear thinking about."
Samantha Jones	"I'm glad we have someone on our side because the three main parties certainly aren't. Most of us are sick of the lies and deceit from politicians, over what is a very serious issue. They dismiss us as if we are irrelevant and offer the public no debate, because they'd have to tell us the truth. Good luck to all of you who are putting country first, well done."
Mike Kindler	"I want control of our Country back in our own hands. I am not, and never will be, an EU citizen - I'm English and politicians meddle with our nationality at their peril."
Mrs Susan Kruse	"I support the Better Off Out campaign. Get us out now before it is too late and we have lost the freedom our parents and grandparents fought and died so hard for. "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." (Edmund Burke) "A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within." (William Durant) "Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy." (Sir Winston Churchill)
Damon Lambert	"By withdrawal the UK can pursue its own free trade agenda and enter the twenty-first century."
Greg Lance-Watkins	"If EUroRealists work together to support you, Future Generations will thank you."
Philip Lardner	"I have great pleasure in confirming that I wish to become an official member of the 'Better off Out' campaign. In particular, the plight of Scottish and British fishermen has prompted me to take this step, which I have been considering for some time. My Party's recent change of policy with regard to the E.U.'s Common Fisheries Policy means that there can now be no 'halfway house' of unilateral withdrawal from the CFP, so complete withdrawal from the E.U. is now the only realistic option open to me to protect the interests of our Nation and our British people."
Tam Large LL.B + EU Law	"At Last! A positive campaign which faces the reality of our costly membership of the fast-developing European Empire. Free of the huge financial drain and bureaucratic stranglehold of the EU, our nation will have the cash and resources to tackle the huge problems which face us. You have my wholehearted support, and I am ready to give of my time and energy to help you publicise the huge benefits which withdrawal from the EU will create."
K. Leslie	"I support the BETTER OFF OUT campaign."
Hedley Lester	"There is no benefit to the UK of belonging to the EU that we could not provide for ourselves as a independent sovereign nation. For the last 33 years our membership of the EU has been hugely damaging to the UK financially, industrially, commercially, agriculturally, strategically, politically and legally. It has cost the people of this nation their rights and freedoms, their taxes and their jobs. The only true beneficiaries of the EU are corrupt politicians and power-brokers by whom and for whom it has been conceived and implemented. EU = government by the rich and powerful for the rich and powerful."
Ernie Lethbridge	"I support the BETTER OFF OUT campaign."
John Lilley	"I support the Better Off Out campaign."
Richard M. Lindlar	"I support you 100% and in a General Election I will only vote for a political party which promises (a real promise, not a Blair one!) to take the United Kingdom out of the EU."
David Lindsay	"I support the BETTER OFF OUT campaign."
David Lonsdale	"Our laws are being made by people whom we have not elected. That is dictatorship. Let us not forget that Continental Europe is no stranger to dictatorship. In the 20th century Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece have been governed by dictatorships with only minimal resistance from those governed. I live in Continental Europe where the inclination to dictatorship by the elite still runs strong. We are all familiar with the reaction of the EUrophiles to the results of the referenda which were held in Holland and France. Let us not forget that the previous Prime Minister of Spain adopted a similar reaction when the people of Gibraltar voted overwhelmingly against Spanish rule. Scratch the surface of several of these European democracies and you will see the outline of a dictatorship."
Christopher Luke	"As a Former Constituency Young Conservative Chairman, an English Orangeman and an Honorary Life Member of Queen’s University Belfast Ulster Unionist Association I wish to place on record my wholehearted support for the Better Off Out campaign. I was born in 1967, ten years after the Treaty of Rome was signed which laid the foundation stone for the creation of what was then called the European Economic Community (now simply called the European Community or the European Union) which the United Kingdom joined when I was just five years old in 1973, without the consent of the British people. Ever since then I have watched, with despair, as successive British Governments (both Conservative and Labour) have continued to surrender our national sovereignty and independence to the EU which, in turn, has destroyed our economy and weakened the only Union that matters: the Union of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. As we fast approach the 300th Anniversary of the 1707 Treaty of Union which abolished the English Parliament and the Scottish Parliament – and established the Parliament of Great Britain in its stead, albeit the United Kingdom Parliament (as we know it today) did not come into existence until Ireland joined Great Britain following the 1800 Act of Union (from whence that part of Ireland now known as the Republic of Ireland sadly seceded in 1921) – let all of us, whether we be English, Welsh, Scots or Northern Irish redouble our efforts to maintain the Union of the United Kingdom and immediately and unconditionally withdraw from the European Union our forefathers should never have joined."
Duncan MacNiven	"I support the BETTER OFF OUT campaign. As a Scottish Nationalist, I support the right of people of distinct cultures and ethnic origin to have the right to choose self government, if that is their wish. I realise that the SNP speaks about working within Europe; as a member of a free and tolerant democratic society I am prepared to accept that the party has the right to make policy as they see fit. However, I am reassured by the groundswell of opinion against the EU and its corrupt culture, and snotty-nosed, greedy politicians. The greedy, grabbing hypocrite that we know as Neil Kinnock (The Welsh Windbag), for me encapsulates all that I despise about Europe and its political elite. For him now to plonk his greedy arse in the House of Lords and speak down his gallic nose at us plebs has just taken it to the extreme. And the worst thing is he cannot see it. Power and money really do scramble men's and women's brains. That is the biggest danger, why do the EU want an Army?"
Michael McGough	"This campaign will UNITE us in our common cause and we shall win. A big thank you to those nine MPs of conviction and honour who place Country first."
Chris Mckenna	"As a result of EU policies, the average UK household food bill costs an extra £1000 per year."
Lady Mearns	"Let common sense prevail and stop pouring money down this cynical Euro black hole. We need to regain control of our country. I support you 100%."
Paddy Meiklejohn	"I support the BETTER OFF OUT campaign."
Laura Midgley	"Whilst there are many who are responsible for the very unwelcome increase in political correctness in the UK, one of the main offenders has to be the European Union. I am totally opposed to anything which encourages more political correctness and reduces freedom and am delighted, therefore, to support the Better Off Out campaign."
Brian Mooney	"Those who value freedom and democracy but who believe that renegotiating Britain's EU membership might be an option should visit www.newalliance.org.uk/reneg.htm. It just can't be done, so take heart and spread the Better Off Out gospel."
Brian Monteith	"Time after time I have given the reformers the benefit of doubt, but no longer. Labour will not reform the EU. Don’t even ask the Liberal Democrats. Now the Conservative Party, in its decision to abandon its plan to take Britain out of the Common Fisheries Policy, has shown it is not serious about change. Reform is dead as a policy. It is not credible or believable. We’d be better off out – and if it means a grass roots campaign to achieve it then that’s what we must do."
Christopher Mowbray	"The Tories need to wake up and recognise that there is an elephant in the room of their own making. They took us in on a lie (Heath) - and keep us there on a lie "In Europe and not run by Europe" (Hague) - and are now kow-towing again, such as over fish (Cameron). They need to accept that you cannot co-operate with an embryonic totalitarian state to which we contribute some £800,000 an hour, every hour, every day, every month, every year - in return for having our industries, such as fishing, ruined."
Godfrey Nall	"I support the Better Off Out campaign."
Judith Napier-Clark	"As a former lawyer, I was incensed when I learned of the effects of the European Arrest Warrant and its undermining of the rights and privileges I enjoyed as a freeborn Englishwoman – rights which my Father and Grandfather fought for in two World Wars. The European Union may appear to be the Soviet Union "lite" today but absolute power corrupts absolutely and the machinery is now in place for a pan-European police state."
Ryan Newell	"The EU is undemocratic. Our laws should be made in Westminster by the politicians who we elect to do so. We are BETTER OFF OUT."
Chad Noble	"Well done in presenting a balanced argument for EU withdrawal. Let's hope we can discuss the issues both for and against withdrawal in a rational way, then end the years of division over the EU and offer the people of Britain a simple referendum to set a clear, focused and united path for the next generation."
Mr. W. B. Norgrove	"I was pleased to receive your BETTER OFF OUT leaflet through our door the other day. My wife and I are supporters and have returned the leaflet of support. There is enough history in this country (UK) to confirm that we are a better unit when we stand alone on our own two feet. The world is now conducive to global trading and we should organise our economy around such trading. The more information that the general public can be given about the waste through the extremely bureaucratic EU the sooner people will realise that we should have no part of it."
Paul Oakley	"The European Union is a corrupt and undemocratic organisation which acts overwhelmingly to the detriment of the United Kingdom. The sooner we leave it, regain our independence and concentrate on trading with the whole world the better."
Alan and Mary Orme	"Total support for the BOO campaign. Let's have our freedom back ASAP!"
Ken Page	"For the ideals our ancestors fought each other for, in such as the battlefields of Edgehill, and Bosworh Fields, this government and there ilk, is just giving away."
Anne Palmer	"The EU Constitution is DEAD. Long live our own Common Law Constitution."
David Parker	"Sadly the 'Newcons' can not be trusted. I suggest that every prospective Conservative MP should be asked to reply in writing to the following question; Are there any circumstances under which you would support Britain's withdrawal from the EU? You should then publish a list of the results. Failure to reply should be counted as a No."
Tim Parker	"More than 30 years ago a small majority of MPs made a terrible blunder by voting for Britain to join what is now known as the EU. Today, amidst widespread and growing opposition to our membership, a new generation of MPs is beginning to realise that to stay in would be an even bigger blunder, and are putting their country before Party or personal interest by supporting the Better Off Out campaign. We must regain our sovereignty."
Stuart Parr	"It's time we kicked the European Federation into touch while we're still allowed."
John A. Peterson	"I support the BETTER OFF OUT campaign but without democracy I cannot see us getting very far."
Douglas Piercy	"Common Market trading, yes, of course. Rule in any shape or form from Brussels, absolutely NOT!"
John Price	"The reason we are in such a financial mess with ever increasing "Stealth Taxes" Council taxes, reduction in services and the massive growth in Crime is due to the massive amount of OUR Money that is being squandered and washed down the EU Drain. Nobody has gained anything from joining the EU except the politicians! Fraud in the EU is ever increasing and their finances have NEVER been audited!! How long would our Government allow a Company to exist without an audit? Would anybody with any common sense invest in a Company that had never been audited? . . . Yet we continue to pour more and more of our taxpayers hard earned cash into the EU so that crooked politicians can fill their pockets (and their bellies) at our expense."
R. Ramsay	"When we voted for membership of the Common Market our politicians lied to us as they knew all along it would lead to the EU and the makings of a Federal State. It's gone too far and we'd be better off with associate status such as that enjoyed by Norway or Switzerland."
Tony Rawlings	"I support the Better Off Out campaign."
Barry Reed	"I feel we should have a referendum on whether to stay in or leave the EU. It is a well known fact that the EU is rife with fraud and corruption that we are paying for. We are feeling no benefit whatsoever at being in the common market. We no longer have any control of our borders or our immigration. The sooner we leave the better."
Rollo Reid	"Of course I support the BETTER OFF OUT campaign."
Paul Richter	"Groucho Marx was right:- "PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER."
Peter Robbins	"The majority of people in England want to withdraw from the EU. So far this majority has been hopelessly fragmented into a number of organisations. You are endeavouring to draw us all together and give us one voice. I hope