Her Majesty the Queen's Christmas Message

[lardy]

Here we get the chance to vote out the government every 4 yrs if the people want to. Not so with the EU.

In the last 40 years, the Tories have won every general election, apart from the few won by Labour under one man who was doing an impression of a Tory. This is the worst government I've ever known and I'm sure they'd still squeak a win at GE tomorrow, such is the political landscape set up for them.

We are quite capable as an independent country to stand on our own 2 feet, make our own laws and rules, and trade with every other country in the world that we want to trade with.

Which countries are we trying to trade with now that we aren't able to? The difference is that as part of the EU, we'd get a much better deal with other countries than on our own. That stands to reason as being part of a big group. That's why countries form big groups to begin with.

Which EU laws don't you like? We've been one of the biggest forces in forming those laws and we have a veto. In future, if we want to continue dealing with the EU (and we should) we'll be going along with those rules anyway but we won't have had a say in them.

We will still be able to travel anywhere in the world that we want to.

But it's suddenly got a lot more difficult to live in a certain part of the world or have a spouse or family from there.

There are parts of the UK that are in dire straits right now, whilst we are in the EU.

And those parts get more funding from the EU than Westminster, as we in Wales should know all too well.

I am confident the UK can both survive and prosper with out being tied to the EU. You may disagree.

I agree the UK can prosper out of the EU. I have zero confidence that our current parliament will achieve it.

The EU is corrupt.

The EU is corrupt. Every institution is. The question is how much. Unfortunately our Parliament has had expenses scandals, cash for questions, big business lobbying and I don't see what has been done to sort it.