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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MTem" data-source="post: 3367421" data-attributes="member: 107707">Same response - we are more likely to change things if we're in the club.Chest-beating from outside might feel superior (if indeed we then had anything to feel superior about..) but our ability to actually do some good would be diminished ... in my view.As I said there is a lot about the EU that I could and would criticise, BUT they are on our doorstep, WILL have a major impact on us therefore no matter what, and therefore we need to be in the club, and putting our point much more forcibly than to date.How and why do you think we are MORE likely to change the rest of Europe's behaviour and strategy towards these things (Biofuels, Fishing policy, Birds Directive) by leaving???</blockquote>