Poll: The EU Referendum: How Will You Vote? (June Poll)
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That can't be real...
It is, unfortunately. I can't remember if they are recognised by UKIP officially or not.
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Would you write and sign a cheque in pencil?
Or, bank rules aside, would you see it as an invitation to fraud, with someone with a
mind to altering the amounts or the payee?
But you are happy to sign your voting slip with a soft leaded pencil on a string, right?
Take an indelible pen with you.....
Bet many had never considered this, right?
Or, bank rules aside, would you see it as an invitation to fraud, with someone with a
mind to altering the amounts or the payee?
But you are happy to sign your voting slip with a soft leaded pencil on a string, right?
Take an indelible pen with you.....
Bet many had never considered this, right?
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Wrt Tunney's pic; It hardly matters no one with half a brain would think that represents anything like Vote Leave in this secular country.
Genuinely lost for words lol...I'd hope that regardless of which side anyone is on they don't take it seriously...but the fact that it exists in the first place suggests otherwise...
I don't know that religion has any place in this debate to be honest - even in a less extreme form..
And it's the remainers who are scaremongering...
Question for the leavers
Who are these people that will renegotiate all the trade deals with all the countries around the world? Because for the past several decades the EU has been doing all our bargaining for us, you know as a Union?
Question for the leavers
Who are these people that will renegotiate all the trade deals with all the countries around the world? Because for the past several decades the EU has been doing all our bargaining for us, you know as a Union?
Would you write and sign a cheque in pencil?
Or, bank rules aside, would you see it as an invitation to fraud, with someone with a
mind to altering the amounts or the payee?
But you are happy to sign your voting slip with a soft leaded pencil on a string, right?
Take an indelible pen with you.....
Bet many had never considered this, right?
It's so that British astronauts can vote in space - pens don't work because of the lack of mavity. And in order to be consistent and be certain that no one has an advantage, everyone has to use a pencil.
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We won't need to, we'll apply for presumed continuation just the same way countries have been doing for 100 years. Existing trade deals would continue with the UK as they did for the EU unless one party actively pulls out.
Our immediate concern would be renegotiation with the EU and EEA is the immediate fallback for that.
New opinion - absolutely no idea anymore.
Read a FB post which was shared to me about this whole referendum and the lack of facts which argued that it should really be left for people more "in the know" such as government to decide on.
I love having a voice and the right to vote but feel it silly when I haven't got a clue what I am actually voting for.
Might as well draw a **** and balls on my ballot paper at this rate, same as not voting but perhaps raising a smile from someone counting them!
Read a FB post which was shared to me about this whole referendum and the lack of facts which argued that it should really be left for people more "in the know" such as government to decide on.
I love having a voice and the right to vote but feel it silly when I haven't got a clue what I am actually voting for.
Might as well draw a **** and balls on my ballot paper at this rate, same as not voting but perhaps raising a smile from someone counting them!
OK, who is going to be doing the negotiations with the EU?
Here's a random (not entirely serious) thought: should there be a 'default' position of 'no change' for people who are undecided/don't vote? I don't mean just in this referendum but in general elections, EP elections etc.
Can it be reasoned that people who don't vote or have no opinion one way or another do not want a change by measure of the fact that they haven't voted for one?
Can it be reasoned that people who don't vote or have no opinion one way or another do not want a change by measure of the fact that they haven't voted for one?
Yes we don't have anybody capable of negotiating anything here as we're such a tiny insignificant place, what an absolutely stupid thing to say that this country doesn't know how to negotiate with others.
Yeah, but in this instance we didn't vote to join the EU either, so the default position should be that we return to what we originally voted for unless we get a large enough percentage voting to stay
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Might encourage voting without forcing it.
Item number 21
' Since the UK has not negotiated FTAs on its own behalf for over 40 years, the
Government does not currently possess the knowledge or capacity to manage such a
large-scale undertaking. It would have to acquire it in a hurry and to scale. This would
be relished by international legal firms who would benefit from a substantial temporary
consultancy requirement until this capacity could be provided by HMG itself. '
Stupid is it?
No but UK was part of creating it.
I see your point but a change like this can't take into account historic events really - it has to be generic. People voting have experience of what it is like to be in the EU - how we became part of it is irrelevant and should also be irrelevant to your vote in the current system!
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Yeah, true - an alternative to trying to enforce compulsory registration and voting or something. Just a assume a default position and if you have a problem or want change, vote for it.
On the other hand it could encourage complacency.
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