Poll: EU Referendum Voting Intentions

How do you intent to vote in the EU referendum

  • Yes - to stay in the EU

    Votes: 486 58.1%

  • No - to leave the EU

    Votes: 307 36.7%

  • Sepp Blatter

    Votes: 43 5.1%
  • Total voters
    836
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A yes/no vote isn't really the right type of vote in my opinion.

For me I don't 'mind' being part of europe as it does have benefits in regards businesses etc. However I do feel that Europe has far too much power over the UK, a perfect example is the UK being 'over ruled' by the EU court over UK issues.

For a lot of people it really does stem down to 2 or 3 major issues, 2 being immigration controls and UK being 'overruled' by EU all the time and the third being money being given to the EU.

Most of these can be solved fairly easily if Cameron does his job and can actually get something done in Europe then the referendum end with us likely staying as part as EU... not that the referendum actually means much as the government doesn't actually need to 'withdraw from EU' even if we all vote leave EU (it's just a fancy term for a country wide survey).

I mean technically if Cameron renegotiates our EU membership he could sign us up to be part of the EU 'forever'... he is after all renegotiating before said referendum.

EDIT: as a side note we really do need some 'adjustments' to the way in which the human rights laws are being 'misused' by criminals etc.
 
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lsg1r said:
A yes/no vote isn't really the right type of vote in my opinion.

For me I don't 'mind' being part of europe as it does have benefits in regards businesses etc. However I do feel that Europe has far too much power over the UK, a perfect example is the UK being 'over ruled' by the EU court over UK issues.

For a lot of people it really does stem down to 2 or 3 major issues, 2 being immigration controls and UK being 'overruled' by EU all the time and the third being money being given to the EU.

Most of these can be solved fairly easily if Cameron does his job and can actually get something done in Europe then the referendum end with us likely staying as part as EU... not that the referendum actually means much as the government doesn't actually need to 'withdraw from EU' even if we all vote leave EU (it's just a fancy term for a country wide survey).

I mean technically if Cameron renegotiates our EU membership he could sign us up to be part of the EU 'forever'... he is after all renegotiating before said referendum.

EDIT: as a side note we really do need some 'adjustments' to the way in which the human rights laws are being 'misused' by criminals etc.
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Pretty much my views give or take - some changes are required which without would tempt me toward voting to leave but I think in general its a good thing in the original/supposed spirit of the idea.
 
Ideally I would like to say No, get well away.

Unfortunately, being isolated in a Continent these days could be pretty dangerous unless you have something everyone wants. We don't really seem to have that these days.

Ideally they'll just renegotiate. Lets see how that goes and what it actually means.
 
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On top of that we as a species should be moving further away from nationalism not reverting back 50+ years and undoing all the hard work.
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Exactly this, instead of squabbling like animals about whats going to happen to our arbitrarily demarked piece of this relatively small ball, we should be working together to make the whole world better for everyone, after all, we all have roughly the same needs & desires, why does it matter where you happened to have been born?

Unfortunately many people are closed minded xenophobic idiots :(
 
Voted no in this poll - although I could be persuaded to vote yes if Cameron gets a good enough deal in his negotations with the EU. I don't think he will though.

One size doesn't fit all and localism often yields better laws and greater economic performance. I want the UK to remain an independent country, free to trade with the EU and free to trade with other nations around the world.
 
oh i read this wrong, i thought it was yers to leave the eu no to stay,.

i vote stay because its nessecery for my work. but id like to see some renegotiation in terms.
 
Haggisman said:
Exactly this, instead of squabbling like animals about whats going to happen to our arbitrarily demarked piece of this relatively small ball, we should be working together to make the whole world better for everyone, after all, we all have roughly the same needs & desires, why does it matter where you happened to have been born?

Unfortunately many people are closed minded xenophobic idiots :(
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you answered your own question, we all have the same needs and desires....but there's not enough for everyone to have those needs and desires fulfilled so someone has to lose out and no one wants it to be them.
 
I voted Yes to stay in the EU.

I trust Brussels more than I do our governments over the recent decades. They have supported Worker Rights, chased down monopolies, negotiated at European level to get discounts on services that we all consume such as telephony, ensured that quality on manufacturing standards don't fall, huge work for the environment.

Whilst we hear a lot of free movement of people it works both ways, employment and healthcare consumed by us Brits whilst we are over there.

Plus they have given a home to Nigel Farage and his cronies keeping him away from our shores for a majority of the time :eek:
 
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Haggisman said:
Exactly this, instead of squabbling like animals about whats going to happen to our arbitrarily demarked piece of this relatively small ball, we should be working together to make the whole world better for everyone, after all, we all have roughly the same needs & desires, why does it matter where you happened to have been born?

Unfortunately many people are closed minded xenophobic idiots :(
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Unfortunately many people are cynical and worldlly-wise enough to know that if you don't stand up for yourselves on the international stage then everyone else is going to walk over you. Just because Britain is a reasonably comfortable place to be right now doesn't mean that it always has to be so. So yeah, let's all be happy and friendly, hold hands and work together to make the world a better place, but at the same time let's make sure our home doesn't burn to the ground while we're busy constructing a new barn for our neighbour.
 
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Unfortunately many people are cynical and worldlly-wise enough to know that if you don't stand up for yourselves on the international stage then everyone else is going to walk over you. Just because Britain is a reasonably comfortable place to be right now doesn't mean that it always has to be. So yeah, let's all be happy and friendly and work together to make the world a better place, but at the same time let's make sure our home doesn't burn to the ground in the mean time.
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as im sure this will get me branded racist but its true that the large purely non uk ethnic areas of cities now are just not nice places any more.

especially for the average white Briton, but apparently these borderline ghettos are a good thing.
 
Cameron isn't asking for that much from the renegotiations from what I've seen so far, so I'd expect him to get them.


I'd need a very compelling argument with complete figures and fully costed before I'd consider voting no. I don't see this as being possible so will vote yes. I'd prefer it if Europe hadn't have expanded at the rate it did, it needed to be a club of similar sized economies and take on one country at a time bringing them in line. Or have a western union and an eastern union that collaborated together.
 
The economic fall out would be severe the if we left, we would enter recession and business would abandon London, we need the free market and movement of goods.
 
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