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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I am not in research anymore. I am assistant ops director and work for a company that is in retail, trade and manufacture. It helps the industry I am currently in as well as previous ones I have been in, to be in the eu. I am not after any funding, I instead hAve a love for the development of science and don't want to see British science hurt and it will take a blow if we leave, the most significant blow is nothing to do with research funding
 
Avenged7Fold said:
I am not in research anymore. I am assistant ops director and work for a company that is in retail, trade and manufacture. It helps the industry I am currently in as well as previous ones I have been in, to be in the eu. I am not after any funding, I instead hAve a love for the development of science and don't want to see British science hurt and it will take a blow if we leave, the most significant blow is nothing to do with research funding
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I don't think the obstacles Science would face outside of the EU are insurmountable, though obviously the safer vote for Science is obviously to stay in. Which is why they're spending so much money on their remain campaign.
 
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Mulder said:
Where did you respond to me here? I assumed you didn't have a response and would rather just try and scare people. :p
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I didn't reply because your post went off topic. I didn't claim the deal was great, I pointed out the existance of the deal shows Britain's influence. My other point was that Britain mainly sells services and developing countries such as China or India are not good clients for services. Developed ones, such as most of the EU, are.
 
its like a mobile phone contract. Pay £40 a month and only use 20 quids worth, or just pay as you go then save/spend the extra on your own stuff.

Or like a bank account that you have to pay £8Billion a year to hold your money, or one that doesn't charge anything but you loose some perks. Its a simple decision for us at this level because we get back MUCH less than we put in - and the EU lets in failing economies like Greece. No offence Greece, but your banks did a job on all of us.

Now Obama is saying we need to stay. I love Obama, hes spot on most of the time, but this time, its just not convincing me. Oh, trade deals will take a bit longer to work out. Give me a break. Is that the worst that will happen? Sounds like a bad star wars movie plot.

And on sharing data for national security - Norway has a system where they share data with EU countries to prevent criminal activity and we can ape that - but you know, how effective is that anyway in recent times.

PS, Obama is awesome, have to say again, I hope he gets the gun control sorted and care to the needy. Hmm, maybe USA could learn from us more.
 
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Zethor said:
Scientists are spending money on Facebook ads for the remain group?
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Yes they are, though I'm pretty sure it's more than just that.

Gux said:
You can tell Roar87 never had any higher education. Can you imagine writing a dissertation report and using Facebook as a reliable source... :D

So funny :D
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You're right, I got terribly bored during A levels. Maybe I just picked the wrong subjects. I am in charge of people with degrees though so I'm not doing too bad at least
 
matt_fsr said:
Anyone else hacked off by Barack Obama's intervention into the debate?

I mean... most American interventions don't leave the country in question in a much better state... but of all the world leaders who shouldn't be lecturing people on freedom and independence, he'd be at number 1 on my list!
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I don't see a problem if Obama gives his opinion. At the end of the day we live in a free society with freedom of speech and at the end of the day, this is just another person giving his opinion, just like everyone in this forum and around the country.

It is laughably the response from the leave campaign about how obama should stay out of it. I guess some people prefer the north korea style of freedom, where people should not be allowed to express their opinion.

I wonder what they would say if it was the other way around and Obama would be supporting the leave campaign.....:rolleyes:
 
Roar87 said:
Yes they are, though I'm pretty sure it's more than just that.



You're right, I got terribly bored during A levels. Maybe I just picked the wrong subjects. I am in charge of people with degrees though so I'm not doing too bad at least
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Hopefully you're deducting marks if they are using Facebook as a trusted source. It is usually only idiots that express a false opinion and then point to Facebook as a source
 
Roar87 said:
You're right, I got terribly bored during A levels. Maybe I just picked the wrong subjects. I am in charge of people with degrees though so I'm not doing too bad at least
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You mean you're shelf stacking supervisor at Tesco?:p

Gux said:
I don't see a problem if Obama gives his opinion. At the end of the day we live in a free society with freedom of speech and at the end of the day, this is just another person giving his opinion, just like everyone in this forum and around the country.

It is laughably the response from the leave campaign about how obama should stay out of it. I guess some people prefer the north korea style of freedom, where people should not be allowed to express their opinion.

I wonder what they would say if it was the other way around and Obama would be supporting the leave campaign.....:rolleyes:
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Exactly, Obama is giving a US perspective on us leaving, including pointing out where we would be regarding trade deals. Yet because it doesn't conform to the Brexit view of "we'll get great deals instantly" he is shouted down as interfering. No, he's pointing out important information with first hand experience of how the US would react.
 
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Amp34 said:
Exactly, Obama is giving a US perspective on us leaving, including pointing out where we would be regarding trade deals. Yet because it doesn't conform to the Brexit view of "we'll get great deals instantly" he is shouted down as interfering. No, he's pointing out important information with first hand experience of how the US would react.
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a US president who wont be in office very much longer. a point the media's missing out on.
 
Roar87 said:
The Scientists for Remain group have spent a fair bit on advertising definitely
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I assume you mean Scientists for EU? They're entirely funded by small donations so I don't expect they actually have that much to spend. Certainly not compared to the millions that will be spent by the official campaigns on both sides.
 
Gux said:
Hopefully you're deducting marks if they are using Facebook as a trusted source. It is usually only idiots that express a false opinion and then point to Facebook as a source
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I'm not sure if you've been paying attention to any of the posts in the thread, perhaps your degree didn't require strong reading comprehension, but I said that the Scientists for Remain group have spent money on Facebook advertisements. No one has used it as a source of information.
 
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