Posted on 10/16/2006 11:53:12 PM PDT by MadIvan
BRITAINs top boardroom bosses want us to quit the European Union, a poll suggested yesterday.
They want to take back powers from Brussels, claiming red tape costs millions of pounds a year.
Nearly two thirds of 1,000 chief executives quizzed prefer simple trade deals to the current political bloc.
Fifty four per cent say over-regulation outweighs single market benefits. And 52 per cent say the EU is failing.
Just a third polled by ICM for think tank Open Europe called it a success.
Next chief exec Simon Wolfson said: There are just far too many prescriptive regulations coming out of Brussels.
This regulation doesnt seem to be doing either business or employees or consumers much good.
City financier Michael Spencer tipped as the next treasurer of the Tory Party added: In the City, people are becoming more and more sceptical about the value we are getting from it all.
Meanwhile, EU Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso urged Britain to opt to be at the heart of Europe or sulk in the periphery during a speech in London.
Only if I should happen to have another hard drive crash.
Fully agreed! The childish "divison" of the western world that wa triggered by those morons Chirac and Schroeder should be history soon.
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