Yes.
That's something people who vote for certain parties need to understand themselves, more than likely when it is too late.
Poll: General election voting intentions poll
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Yes.
That's something people who vote for certain parties need to understand themselves, more than likely when it is too late.
No, I saw the full clip this morning on the BBC when it was ~breaking news~ and it still makes the situation look farcical. The point is that this morning Labour were claiming that it would increase tax revenues and wouldn't cost the UK money... then a video is found which has Balls saying it would cost the UK money. That's an own goal.
Did he? Have you tried reading the full quote I posed above? He said that abolishing the whole non-dom status would cost the UK money, which isn't being proposed. Understand?
Because I imagine UKIP would give less of a **** about negotiating visa deals with Poland, or Romania than say Germany or Spain?
So you concede that it will either be very difficult for British people to leave the UK to the EU or it will be very easy for EU citizens to emigrate to the UK?
But Germany and Spain will likely enact similar restrictions on British citizens as Britain would do to EU citizens. In fact the Eu countries would likely be in a more powerful position to bargain better visa rights.
No, i am looking at the average of polls that show a downward trend in UKIP vote share from around 17% in October to 13% now, a drop of 25%.
I am completely ignoring individual polls.
Who prepares these people for interviews? It's amazing how you can let someone go on national TV/radio armed with nothing more than party slogans.
"We're going to tax X."
"How much will that raise?"
"Err...the Tories only care about the rich!"
"Right, but how much will your tax raise?"
"Err...well, what we're saying is that we want to tax X."
I say that they will have to use a standard visa process, which isn't "very difficult".
Later this year my girlfriend will move from her student visa onto a partner visa for instance, I know about the application processes, and yes they are annoying, but they don't present such a barrier as to significantly stop applications.
If the UK leaves, UK citizens in rEU, and EU citizens in the UK would have to apply for visas. There will be a transition period of a number of years to allow this to happen. I'm not sure why this is such a difficult concept to you?
To answer your question directly, yes it will be more difficult, we are talking about removing the priciple of free movement afterall, but it will just be a minor inconvience for tourists to and from, and would allow actual government control on migrants to take place.
This is just not true. Have a look at the BBC poll of polls and you can clearly see there has been a two or three point drop in the UKIP support since the new year.
This isn't overly surprising, voters tend to drift back towards the major parties as a general election approaches.
Do you understand that a headline isn't the same thing as a detailed policy? Did you read that George Osborne has admitted that Labour were not proposing to abolish non-dom status?
Edit: Did you notice that I forgot to include this link? http://www.theguardian.com/politics...uses-labour-tinkering-edges-non-doms-miliband
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The whole non-dom thing is ridiculous. The media are completely avoiding discussing policy and instead following their own made up story about Ed Balls. It's another embarrassing example of just how poor the media in this country is.
Ah i was hoping you'd bring up the BBC! their poll tracker is the most suspect of them all, 13%? LOL to the max, the polls this week have all been higher and the BBC haven't been updating the site for days.
You're much better off looking at the polls from the websites themselves
I imagine they are avoiding dicussing the policy because its actually quite complicated and not fully worked out. On the face of it seems to work against or be thwarted by double taxation agreements anyway.
What Balls said in the past is certainly relevant though, and shows that he is willing to abandon his supposed economic wisdom if it will win him votes.
You can click on the dropdown to look through each of the polls and see much the same pattern on all of them. Your paranoia aside, others may want to click through and see the methodology under which they calculate the poll-of-polls value.
The same pattern is also seen in other polls of polls such as those from May 2015 or the Telegraph. Why are you so determined to deny simple reality?
So the entire "controlled immigration" policy would be entirely useless and a waste of money since it wouldn't reduce any immigration rate?
http://may2015.com/category/poll-of-polls/
Click latest polls to see the last few months, hovers around 14/15% for UKIP. Down on last year of course, but doesn't look like it is sliding.
Click latest polls to see the last few months, hovers around 14/15% for UKIP. Down on last year of course, but doesn't look like it is sliding.
If I'm being thick, then please enlighten me, but I don't see how that conclusion can be drawn from my words.
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