Poll: The EU Referendum: How Will You Vote? (June 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: 794 45.1%

  • Leave the European Union

    Votes: 965 54.9%
  • Total voters
    1,759
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Uther said:
The EU are going to have a field day with the UK. When the **** hits the fan I shall just say to remain voters:
'well YOU voted for it'
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I'm sure we'll have still have shills like Mr Jack and Zethor telling us why the UK paying an extra £50bn a year to Brussels and massive declining living standards for most people is actually a good thing when you look at this LSE study.
 
We're going to take back control and restore 100% sovereignty to the government that we've just spent the last page complaining about.
 
eggcup said:
Can anyone tell me of one EU law that personally effects them to their detriment?
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EU working time directive. I am falling foul of this all the time and it's very difficult for me to do everything I want to do and fully comply.

With that said, it also safeguards a lot of people.
 
So whose opinions do you trust when researching whether to stay or leave? What sources are you using to make your decisions? Or is it pure gut feel?

I need to do some research as I don't understand the consequences of either outcome enough currently, so I'd like to make a more informed decision.
 
Uther said:
The EU are going to have a field day with the UK. When the **** hits the fan I shall just say to remain voters:
'well YOU voted for it'
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Yes, because when they are just recovering from a financial crisis, growth is low in the EU overall anyway, they lose one of the very few net contributors to the EU, reshift the contributions of all the current members to be higher to manage there current spending, they have to manage the migration crisis and bailouts of greece and potentially look forward to more bailouts of other regions and our leaving triggers a little weakness in the euro zone anyway then they have all the money in the world to throw away at trying to spite Britain. Singular countries like France and Italy with high unemployment that are needing to go through austerity programs are going to love spiting themselves just to get a minor dig at us, if you're committing to austerity then you may as well make it harder. You know what, they want to kill themselves too!

In fact, they'll also not have to worry about it because if they make bad trade agreemants with us and we put tarriffs on them too then somehow (despite it being the opposite of the normal logic of why the EU works) that will make all there now poorer countries even happier that trade potential has sunk even further! Did I forget to mention this is before they have to manage that migration crisis still going on as well? Guess they don't need money for that any more even though it's not been fixed. Another slight spanner in the works is the other countries considering there own referendums if ours goes to the crapper, they want reform too so they'll be holding up a bit of the EU's political time that could be spent tirelessly wielding a double edged sword that keeps hitting themselves in the eye too. I'll tell you what, I'll close my eyes and count to 3 and hope they've given us the big whallop by then because I dare not watch.
 
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mpledge52 said:
So whose opinions do you trust when researching whether to stay or leave? What sources are you using to make your decisions? Or is it pure gut feel?

I need to do some research as I don't understand the consequences of either outcome enough currently, so I'd like to make a more informed decision.
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Well the university guy gives a decent insight into leaving but we can't trust him because he gets paid by the EU.

Like saying we can't trust the fireman when he says don't set your house on fire because if we didn't set our house on fire he wouldn't have a job.
 
Anyway I am off to watch Footie, enjoy wrapping yourselves with Tinfoil, put a tin Bucket on too for added effect! And vote remain ;)
 
Moses said:
I assume you mean horrendous shifts where you'd have a small gap between them, etc. That sort of thing? It's probably protecting your health, in that case :-\. And that's one part of the Working Time Directive, it does lots of stuff - before it, not everyone had paid annual leave, for example.
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Yes, time in between shifts is especially troublesome. Whilst it may be aimed at protecting my health, I'd like the ability to choose.

Out of all the EU directives, this is the only one that I feel negatively affects my life.
 
Moses said:
One aspect of it is bad, but the entitlement to annual leave, breaks, protection from being overworked if you want to do fewer than 48 hours a week, etc, are just some of the positives of it. What are the specific circumstances which aren't allowed? Can you give an example?
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I'm not saying the whole lot is bad, just that one part negatively affects me.

The issue is around my choice to be a Special Constable and that the time I dedicate to that is classed as working although I don't feel it's quite the same. That means there are sometimes issues between me finishing my day job and starting my volunteering.

The directive wasn't written to stop this particular issue but does cause collateral damage.
 
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