PICTURE AN INDEPENDENT BRITAIN

LEARN HOW WE CAN WIN IT

The Campaign for Truth in Europe represents British citizens of all nationalities and ethnic backgrounds who wish Britain to regain her independence and remain self-governing. They support Britain leaving the EU and signing a free-trade agreement to continue trading with the European nations, just as Switzerland, Norway and even Mexico do with the EU today with no problems. This is the arrangement most in Britain believed they were signing up for when Edward Heath took Britain into the Common Market in 1973.

Our membership opposes the complete lack of adequate checks and balances in the EU, political extremism, unaccountable government, and politicians who flout the rule of law. Most ordinary citizens of Britain and her Commonwealth don't see themselves as any sort of 'activists'. But, for many, the time for silent anger and dissent is at an end.

The heartening news is that polls indicate that over 60% of the British people would unequivocally support Britain leaving the EU IMMEDIATELY if they knew this would not harm us and we could continue to trade with Europe. This figure of 60% is estimated to rise to over 80% if British people were properly educated on the dangers we now collectively face as a nation from the threat of the EU.

Consider whether the following nation would be able to make it on its own!

* Britain is a nation of 58 million people.

* She is the fourth largest economy in the world by Gross Domestic Product.

* She owns the largest financial trading centre in the world, centred in London. There are more US banks in London than in New York, more German banks than in Frankfurt and our capital handles more euro transactions than the whole of the European Union COMBINED.

* In spite of the UK's known reluctance to join the euro, by mid-2000 Britain was receiving record foreign investments, becoming Europe's most popular investment location by a staggering margin.

* Neither the UK's membership of the EU, nor the potential to participate in the 'single EU market' has featured in the top ten reasons for foreign investors deciding to place their money in Britain.

* Unemployment across the Eurozone is a staggering 18 million. No increase in jobs has been achieved in the past 20 years. Yet Britain has created 2.3 million jobs during that same period.

* 80% of new technologies, discoveries and major inventions over the past 250 years have been pioneered by British scientists and engineers.

* We have the only oil industry in the EU. We have a world-class financial services sector with huge pensions assets, while Europe has a combined pensions liability totalling $1.2 trillion which has no underpinning assets to cover it.

* Britain has a massive tourism market based on its unique blend of tradition, monarchy, history and craftsmanship.

* Britons have been at the forefront of developing and taking advantage of the massive boom in Internet sector technologies to boost our global trade.

* English is the language of the Internet.

* English is the most widely used language across the world and is used in business globally. English is virtually a compulsory second language for everyone on the face of the Earth.

* Britain has strong links with America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, much of Asia and South America. Almost all European nations do not.

* Britain is the EU's best customer, creating 5 million European jobs. If Britain were to pull out of the EU and negotiate a proper free trade agreement (no tariffs applied), the EU simply couldn't afford to upset or close the door on its best customer, given the Union's shaky financial state of affairs. Europe would still earnestly want to trade with us, and we with them.

* Most importantly, once Britain is free of the EU, the huge amount of cash we give to Brussels can now be put to work in improving conditions and infrastructure in our own country.