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

[Danthus]

Quite an interesting article here.

http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...ded-gentry-are-so-desperate-to-stay-in-the-eu

A bloke worth £7bn claimed nearly £1m from that CAP.

 

[Danthus]

Paddy Ashdown has just said leaving the EU is dangerous becasue of Putin. Well being in the EU didn't stop him annexing the Crimea did it.

 

[Nevakonaza]

Im glad boris woke up and smelled the coffee,Must be bad for Cameron to have the London Mayor against staying in the EU lol.

I've not received any scaremongering leaflets as of yet,When they do come goes straight in the recycle bin.

 

[Avenged7Fold]

If our government decides they don't want to fund all this extra research then why shouldn't they? It's British taxpayer's money which should be spent as the British government is entitled to spend as it sees fit. If the government wastes it on pointless things (e.g. £9m leaflet campaigns) then that's fine, but they'll have to deal with the political fallout from that. If the EU wastes money e.g. on moving the European Parliament from Brussels to Strasbourg and back every year then do you think anyone over there cares if the British taxpayer is unhappy their money is being spent on that?

Yeah, who cares if the UK which has been leading many fields of science for the last several hundred years and has benefited massively from it, just stops, as long as the guy making the decisions is a British guy, doesn't matter what the decisions are, right?

I value the advancement of science more than i value the background nationality of the decisions maker. I am obviously biased being educated and formally employed in research the industry but i will take that bias over BNP social club skin head bias . At first taking back power was about having Britain's interest at heart but now it doesn't matter what the government see's fit as long as its the British government who sees it.

 

[Tosno]

Cameron recently negotiated a new deal for Britain.

Yeah, the one where he promised half a loaf of bread and brought home crumbs that are probably sawdust.

 

[Lima]

Yeah, who cares if the UK which has been leading many fields of science for the last several hundred years and has benefited massively from it, just stops, as long as the guy making the decisions is a British guy, doesn't matter what the decisions are, right?

So we have been leading the way in sciences for several hundred years, many moons before the EU, but we MUST be in the EU to be able to keep doing this? What??

 

[Woden]

So we have been leading the way in sciences for several hundred years, many moons before the EU, but we MUST be in the EU to be able to keep doing this? What??

The current government cannot be trusted to invest in research. At all.

 

[scorza]

The current government cannot be trusted to invest in research. At all.

... and yet you'll trust them when they tell you to vote to stay in the EU?

 

[Freakbro]

... and yet you'll trust them when they tell you to vote to stay in the EU?

Or he has made his own mind up irrespective of what the government is saying?

 

[PlacidCasual]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...e-tell-you-that-the-eu-makes-britain-even-gr/

I love this from the the title "as your friend". I can't think of a more anti UK President since the World War 2 and one who has less acted like our friend.

The mans election mantra was change you can believe in, very apt because you need faith because it won't be change you see. I honestly don't know what to say about this man lecturing us on anything.

 

[glenimp617]

who do you trust the most

downing street or brussels

 

[PlacidCasual]

Downing Street, I can eject them at least every 5 years and collectively we a far more able to affect their behaviour.

 

[Nevakonaza]

Gotta love the yanks poking their nose in,I like how on the BBC news this morning they kept saying Oboma has a right to intervene..i dont think he does personally,He should stick to his own politics in his own country.

Do we poke our nose in the what happens over in the US and tell their citizens which way they should vote in their own country?...And quite frankly,if we did im sure the Yanks would go tell us to do one.

Cameron probably said to Oboma,Oh boma honey...Im pretty sure a lot of people want out of EU now,My scare tactics are not as efficient as id like them to be so can you come over and back me up..try and scare the UK people into thinking the whole countrys going to fail if we leave the EU...Blablabla

 

[glenimp617]

Gotta love the yanks poking their nose in,I like how on the BBC news this morning they kept saying Oboma has a right to intervene..i dont think he does personally,He should stick to his own politics in his own country.

Do we poke our nose in the what happens over in the US?...And quite frankly,if we did im sure the Yanks would go tell us to do one.

it's called playground politics

 

[Roar87]

The EU is more likely to cause a terror attack in the UK due to relaxed border control than it is prevent one, how laughable. We don't need to be in the EU to work closely with our NATO allies to fight terror either, it's just a complete lie

 

[scorza]

The EU is more likely to cause a terror attack in the UK due to relaxed border control than it is prevent one, how laughable. We don't need to be in the EU to work closely with our NATO allies to fight terror either, it's just a complete lie

The UK probably has the most capable intelligence and anti-terror services in Europe. So if for some reason European intelligence services stopped co-operating with us, there'd be more terror attacks in Europe - that's why co-operation will continue if we Left the EU.

What I really don't get is this argument that we have more influence inside the EU than outside it. It makes no sense at all. Who has more influence on the world? New Zealand (pop: 5m) or the State of Missouri (pop: 7m)? The former I would suggest. When we give away our powers, surely by definition we are less powerful.

 

[Avenged7Fold]

So we have been leading the way in sciences for several hundred years, many moons before the EU, but we MUST be in the EU to be able to keep doing this? What??

We use to considerably invest in science and have far more incentives for people to come here from overseas to lend us their knowledge and talent. The current government has neglected science research in the UK for years.

Unless you work in the field or have done, you wouldn't know.

 

[daver]

Still undecided which way I am going to vote.

Be interesting the effect of Obama's intervention, the people who like him the most are probably already solid in voters and the people who don't like him are probably already solid out voters, so it will probably turn out that we will see a lot of crap in the media either way over the next few days and overall it won't have much effect.

 

[Lima]

We use to considerably invest in science and have far more incentives for people to come here from overseas to lend us their knowledge and talent. The current government has neglected science research in the UK for years.

Unless you work in the field or have done, you wouldn't know.

I appreciate you work in the field and would know more hands on what's happening at the moment in your industry, but the current government can be voted out every 4-5 years. People will still come here from oversees in specialist fields, just the same as UK people go to non EU countries and do the same. For example (from my industry) construction professionals from the UK are highly sought after to go and run gigantic construction projects in the middle east, Canada and Australia. We don't belong to some club in order for us to do that, we just get work visas and crack on. There's no reason people in the sciences couldn't do this also, albeit it helps if the current government is willing to invest in the field.

 

[Mr Jack]

Be interesting the effect of Obama's intervention, the people who like him the most are probably already solid in voters and the people who don't like him are probably already solid out voters, so it will probably turn out that we will see a lot of crap in the media either way over the next few days and overall it won't have much effect.

I'd be surprised if there's many people who would be swayed by Obama, but together with the various other interventions we've seen I think it could swing a small percentage of people and, when it comes to it, the referendum campaign will be won by these small swings.