Poll: The EU Referendum: How Will You Vote? (March 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: 400 43.3%

  • Leave the European Union

    Votes: 523 56.7%
  • Total voters
    923
  • Poll closed .
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delta0 said:
I have 2 degrees and will be voting out. My office has a very high proportion of degrees and all are voting out. The only people that have said they want to remain aren't British and so can't vote anyway. I have yet to meet a single person that is eligible to vote and wants to remain.
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Narj said:
Lots of degree educated people in my team at work are leaning out. Those leaning in are the minority. I wouldn't want to extrapolate and assume though.
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As always, polling data gives a statistical likelyhood. Individual anecdotes of the opposing direction are not an argument against.

Polling data - as the most recent election showed* - is not always correct but it's still a lot more reliable than drawing conclusions from your observations of what the people around you think. If the people in my circle of friends were representative, we'd have AV, had a Green-LibDem coalition in 2010, the Scottish referendum would have passed, we'd have a Green-Labour coalition in 2015 and this referendum would be an easy victory for Remain. Your personal observations are no more reliable a guide to public opinion.

* - Although it's wasn't nearly as bad as being made out, the polls were within 10% of the final vote shares - outside their expected margins but not hopelessly, desperately wrong.
 
betting markets are probably a better indicator than polls tbh...

'In' is still the favorite at 1/3 but that is drifting

'Out' is around 9/4 but shortening
 
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My thoughts when this was announced are the same as now - if Scotland voted to leave the UK, the rest of the UK would vote to leave the EU.

As it is the much more pro-EU Scottish votes will keep us all in. Polls will flip-flop during the campaign but on the day the vast majority will vote the way they intended to all along, when have you ever known anyone change their mind?

The irony of the English voting to leave because of a perceived lack of representation in the EU, but being blocked by Scottish voters, is not entirely lost.

I know the SNP has said time and again, if the UK votes to leave the EU due to English votes, there must be another referendum on Scottish independence. If the UK votes to stay in the EU based on Scottish votes, should there be a vote on English independence?
 
That would be funny. Scots have a referendum on staying in the UK, they stay, then we leave them :D
 
My nan was speaking about this the other day. She plans to vote out and says every single person she knows is voting out too. (All probably aged 60+)
 
Woden said:
On the other hand, IDS wants us to vote out. Choose your poison I guess.

As someone that works for a living, I pretty much need the opposite of IDS's ideology.
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God damn you, not really, just as I was leaning towards that anti camoron stance you trump it with Ian Smith, dang!!
 
Not going to mention names, but I’ve started noticing quite an overlap between the Remain crowd and the #RefugeesWelcome crowd. As with the refugee situation, there are also the same subtle implications of racism and ignorance being levelled.

Another opportunity to virtue signal?
 
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Sliver said:
Of course. Hence why I posted the retort to deuse.
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The fact that BBC article exists is no surprise. The queen may in fact back exit but we will (and should) never know. I would tend to think she'd have more sense then to state them so audibly at a dinner party though, and well, it is The Sun....


What I'm more interested in, was the £500million given to Turkey by the EU, is that from their existing budgets? If not, did the UK agree before hand how much extra would be donated? And do we get any say in how it is spent in Turkey?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...rs-meet-to-discuss-migrant-crisis-latest.html
 
Trifid said:
The fact that BBC article exists is no surprise. The queen may in fact back exit but we will (and should) never know. I would tend to think she'd have more sense then to state them so audibly at a dinner party though, and well, it is The Sun....


What I'm more interested in, was the £500million given to Turkey by the EU, is that from their existing budgets? If not, did the UK agree before hand how much extra would be donated? And do we get any say in how it is spent in Turkey?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...rs-meet-to-discuss-migrant-crisis-latest.html
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That makes me angry.
 
Skunkworks said:
Not going to mention names, but I’ve started noticing quite an overlap between the Remain crowd and the #RefugeesWelcome crowd. As with the refugee situation, there are also the same subtle implications of racism and ignorance being levelled.

Another opportunity to virtue signal?
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Might be an idea to collate the names from both lists, perhaps even cast your net wider over other threads too, once you're sure you have all the evidence you need double checked send it off to gchq marked as a traitors list.
 
deuse said:
That makes me angry.
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I'm fine with it if it comes from existing EU budgets or the UK agreed to it before hand (and has a say in how it is spent rather then becoming part of Turkey's budget). However how the BBC depicted it yesterday was that it was decided by the EU and came out of EU's budget, which doesn't actually appear to be the case.
 
Shock horror as unelected head of states personal view is one based on 'sovereignty' and wants to keep the status quo of privilege :p
 
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