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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I don't like it either, it's nugatory research. Maybe if we left the EU we could fund proper, useful science - like finding a cure for cancer.

Again that research is absolutely nothing to do with the EU, so your point would be moot if you actually knew what research was useful and what isn't.

I can say that research is more useful than a lot of the stuff that hits the headlines and probably involved very little investment in terms of time and money.

I don't think you would know proper science if you subbed you tripped on it and it caused you to accelerate toward the ground.

How can you have the logic that leaving the eu would give us any more choice in what we fund?

We are free to fund what we like at the moment, leaving would have us lose an insane amount of funding requiring the UK gov to fill the gap, leaving even less money for funding research. The research is not decided by the EU, the team decides the research and can apply for funding or investment, it is then evaluated to see whether the investment is worth it. As far as research is concerned, we see no benefit at all from leaving.
 
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It's impossible for Pro-EU supporters to fight so many fronts.

Farage can get everyone agreeing with him with sound bites and Boris waffles on without any concrete facts of ANY kind but everyone agrees with him.
 
Farage can say whatever he likes because he knows he'll never, ever be in a position where he has to do anything at all beyond trot it useless headline grabbing sound-bites that appeal to UKIP'ers.

ALL WE NEED TO DO IS TAKE BACK OUR SOVEREIGNTY AND ONCE AGAIN BECOME THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD!! YEA!!!!

I mean who can't get beyond meaningless quotes when they sound so feisty :D
 
Oh look, you don't need to be in the EU to be happy:

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Aren't we always being told that we don't want to be like Norway or Switzerland?
 
Oh look, you don't need to be in the EU to be happy:

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Aren't we always being told that we don't want to be like Norway or Switzerland?

Let's look at it this way

4 countries are in the EU (including the one on top of the list)
3 have close ties to EU
The other 3 were let free from UK rule (fairly recently you could say)

So based on that if you want to be happy, the last thing you want is British politicians to rule. ;)
 
I have no idea why that chart is even in this thread. It would have been just as relevant to post survey results of what areas of the country prefer certain flavours of Pringles.
 
I have no idea why that chart is even in this thread. It would have been just as relevant to post survey results of what areas of the country prefer certain flavours of Pringles.

I agree I want out of the European
And that chart is...awful. It's even an aweful depiction of what it's trying to show.
If I pulled a graph like that out at an external meeting I'd be shot
 
Given that sovereignty is at the heart of the EU debate, I wouldn't say it was meaningless at all.

BNPsers and UKIPers keep using term "sovereignty" with such pathos and hysteria as if you were ready to paint your face blue and white, scream "They may take our lives but they'll never take our freedom!" in heavy ozzy trans Gaelic accent and charge a bus full of French tourists with broken bottles in clenched fists. Can you once and for all explain WTF do you mean. In detail. Off your high pony and talk like a normal person. No soundbites, no oneliner Nigelisms. Concrete examples.
 
I'd love some simple figures on benefits and cost of eu

I guess it gets complex when you try and factor In trade we may or may not lose and to what degree

If we literally pulled out of the EU we would have X billion to do what we want with.
Would it all need to be used to plug the gap left by the eu exit
Or would we be able to. Reduce the deficit for example?

Only one way to find out... And the key word is right there.. Out
 
I agree I want out of the European
And that chart is...awful. It's even an aweful depiction of what it's trying to show.
If I pulled a graph like that out at an external meeting I'd be shot

Unless your meeting was about ranking happiness in different countries
 
I'd love some simple figures on benefits and cost of eu

I guess it gets complex when you try and factor In trade we may or may not lose and to what degree

If we literally pulled out of the EU we would have X billion to do what we want with.
Would it all need to be used to plug the gap left by the eu exit
Or would we be able to. Reduce the deficit for example?

Only one way to find out... And the key word is right there.. Out

Drinking bleach in zero gravity might cure cancer, nobody has tried that yet. I guess the only way to find out is to give it a go.
 
Drinking bleach in zero gravity might cure cancer, nobody has tried that yet. I guess the only way to find out is to give it a go.

Given the choice of that or vote exit.. I think I know what I'd go for. So bit out of context? But I take your point.
I quite like the risk reward ratio so willing to go. For it
 
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