b'Chapter One examines the UKs relationshippopulation demographics for the labour with the EU and considers the groundsforce, insufficient skill levels (i.e. education), for the UK leaving the EU. Part one of theand large public deficits. chapter, Who wore the trousers? explains the UKs decreasing level of influence withinPart three, Are there irreconcilable European institutions and the limitations ofdifferences? considers the issues associated the Commission structure.with enlargement and examines the problems that cultural and economic differences across The UKs level of influence in the EU hascountries can play in creating an ever-larger declined significantly since the UK becameEU. an EU member in 1973. In its final full year of membership (2019) the UK only had 8.2% ofPart four then examines EU policies that are the vote in the Council of Ministers, less thanharmful to the UK, including the working time 10% of MEPs and just one of 28directive, the common fisheries policy and Commissioners. The Commissioners aredirectives that restrict manufacturing in the selected not on merit, but primarily onUK. nationality and gender - also often on reverse popularity with national colleagues.Chapter Two presents and addresses the following falsehoods: Since records began in 1996, the UK has tried to block proposals from the EuropeanI. The UK has to be in a political union in Commission 72 times. We have failed everyorder to access EU markets. time. Success rate zero. II. A country outside the European Union Part Two of Chapter One, Why must themust have a free trade agreement with the UK pay to access the EU Single Market,EU in order to trade with and, in particular, examines some of the ongoing economicto export into it.troubles within the EU, including high unemployment, unfavourable 204'