Poll: The EU Referendum: How Will You Vote? (April Poll)

Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?

  • Remain a member of the European Union

    Votes: 452 45.0%

  • Leave the European Union

    Votes: 553 55.0%
  • Total voters
    1,005
  • Poll closed .
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Moses said:
Both sides will get a free mailshot when they're chosen and the campaign starts. This is the government giving its view.
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Both sides will get a spending limit of £7 million and a small amount of public money to spend on mailshots and TV ads. This mailshot alone is costing more than the total amount the official leave campaign will be allowed to spend.
 
Moses said:
On the BBC News site, in a video, James Lansdale said the two campaigns would get a mail shot... and it seemed worded as though it'd be equivalent to this one.
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I don't think that's correct. The BBC article I linked says otherwise, and my reading of the Electoral Commission advice (.pdf) suggests that there will be another later mailshot but that it will not be funded to any kind of matching degree and the official remain campaign gets theirs in addition to this government one.
 
Mr Jack said:
The UK has an opt-out over EU asylum rules so we would not be affected if we choose to leave the rest of the EU to shoulder our fair share of the burden.
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Read it again properly. :rolleyes:

Even if we opt out we cannot send them back to 1st EU country they entered.
Basically Germany will be making Europe take allocated numbers by size of a countries economy.

Stay IN = Bad news.
Get Out = Who knows, I like adventure don't you. :D
 
The government should have sent out an unbiased fact sheet and thats it.

None of this "voting to leave could lead to 10 years uncertainty" or leaving "could do xyz" scare mongering.

Facts alone
 
Moses said:
That's not my reading of it. I see it as £600k to deal with admin costs etc for sorting out stuff like the to broadcasts/these leaflets/etc, with that money not having to be used for printing/distribution. Why do you say that?
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They get free mail/tv adverts worth 600k ish then the rest of thier money they can spend how they please.

Up to the 7 million cap.

So leave has no abiloty to respond to this remain mail shot because its worth more than thier entire limit.

Basicaly remain has been given a 9 million freebie without the otherside getting any thing
 
Desperation comes at a price. A leaflet won't buy me however. I have some principles left, even in this day and age. The expenditure makes me even more certain an out vote is correct, despite my Conservative leanings. It's getting dirtier. How dirty can it get though, that's my fear? Totally bent?
 
Moses said:
Well, page seven has 'one free distribution of information to voters', with the £600k grant to cover a range of stuff including the costs of managing that (is my guess, rather than that money covering the costs of printing/distribution).
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Yes, that's correct. But this mailshot from the government isn't Remain's free mailshot. It's an additional one, funded from government cash, that doesn't count towards the spending limits. Accordingly, I don't think the Leave campaign's mailshot constitutes a equal right to reply.
 
itchy said:
Read it again properly. :rolleyes:

Even if we opt out we cannot send them back to 1st EU country they entered.
Basically Germany will be making Europe take allocated numbers by size of a countries economy.

Stay IN = Bad news.
Get Out = Who knows, I like adventure don't you. :D
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I'm sure this will be spun as good for the UK by the Europhiles shortly ;)
 
The Mad Rapper said:
Absolutely this. It's disgusting that tax payer funds are being used for the stay campaign.
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Well that's persuaded me to make a donation to Vote Leave. Wouldn't normally bother but this is basically propaganda if the papers are correct. Some of the statements are not "fact" at all.

Disgusting tactics and that 9 mil could be used to pay NHS staff!
 
Yeah, that's pretty disgraceful. Can't say I'm shocked - the government position is that we must stay in no matter what. They have little interest in playing fair. Instead, they aim to win, and will then claim the issue to be settled for 'at least a generation'. Afterward, the only way another vote will happen is if the Tories are forced to make an agreement ith UKIP at some point down the road.
 
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