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

[pastymuncher]

Same as the other polls, a very definate out.

 

[Skunkworks]

Just to reiterate my position:

I'm out because:

• The EU is crumbling.
• Britain is enough of an economic power to go it alone and maybe encourage others to come too.
• We're a desirable place to live and work, so we should be cherry picking the brightest and best from around the world, not just flinging the doors open and hope for the best.

 

[MookJong]

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I consider myself a Liberal too...this is why it is so sad.

 

[scorza]

Unfortunately I am not educated enough on the matter to decide whether to vote in or out. I wish there was a full list of reasons for voting either side reasons from trusted sources. There's so much crap out there I don't know what to believe and what not to believe any more

It's sad that you don't feel educated enough to vote. As a British, Irish or Commonwealth citizen over the age of 18 and residing in the UK you have the right to vote (and I would say a duty!) - there's no restriction based on education. As for the information, well that's going to be coming out between now and June 23rd. A word of warning though - no-one has a crystal ball and knows what the right decision is. You're going to have to use your own judgement as to which arguments are worthy, which ones aren't and make your decision to vote accordingly. If you still can't decide which way to vote I would urge you to spoil your ballot rather than just not voting - this can be achieved by not marking the ballot paper at all.

 

[Basher]

100% out

Don't want my tax paying for minimum wage workers rent.

Can I go to france get a 16 hour a week cleaning job and get my full rent paid on a decent flat ? no so why the madness of opening our benefits up to 500 million ?

There's going to be trouble if the lefties vote us in, expect civil unrest against the middle and upper class I'm alright jacks.

Just for clarity, are you 100% out of the EU or 100% out of a benefits system?

 

[Bego2K]

It's sad that you don't feel educated enough to vote. As a British, Irish or Commonwealth citizen over the age of 18 and residing in the UK you have the right to vote (and I would say a duty!) - there's no restriction based on education. As for the information, well that's going to be coming out between now and June 23rd. A word of warning though - no-one has a crystal ball and knows what the right decision is. You're going to have to use your own judgement as to which arguments are worthy, which ones aren't and make your decision to vote accordingly. If you still can't decide which way to vote I would urge you to spoil your ballot rather than just not voting - this can be achieved by not marking the ballot paper at all.

I think you misunderstood me, I want to make an educated decision on my vote and not just vote blindly I would never not vote unless I spoil my ballot.
I too feel every person that is legally able to vote should even if its just to spoil their ballot. (Maybe they should change the way it works in that if a vote is not received it gets counted as a spoil)
I feel there is never enough trusted information when there is a referendum would be helpful if there was a table of for and against reasons for staying/leaving the EU

 

[peige]

Out.

I don't believe we have sufficient influence in the EU parliament to make any difference to what they want to do.
I don't want to be part of the "Europe project"
The whole thing seems like a ship of fail with the current immigration crisis and countries that are economically so far apart from ours being shoe horned into the one size fits all that is [not] Europe.
The UK is a formidable force in the world, we should believe in ourselves.

 

[Judgeneo]

The EUs main goal remains to move from suprastate to superstate. I'll be voting out.

 

[Insanties_birth]

I like the EU but I don't want to vote in and get TTIP and Turkey. EU hasn't really convinced me that these are not coming in the future (along with higher fee's that make some of the trade benefits less beneficial) so a bright future with TTIP is not my real goal.

If they ruled those out I'd vote EU to be honest.

 

[platypus]

The EUs main goal remains to move from suprastate to superstate. I'll be voting out.

Except there is no reason to expect that Britain would head into a federal Europe, given that precedence exists for us to stay outside of EU arrangements, for example two of the most important European unions, Schengen and the Euro.

 

[Jono]

Out - was out in the last poll too.
Views are pretty much the same as Gilly posted, with more leaning towards out for longer I guess.

The "deal" we got, to me, speaks volumes about what the rest of the EU thinks about us. It's not going to change anything and in all likelihood would be overturned anyway. And why does it only last for a certain time? Stupid.

I love Europe, I hate the EU (in its current form/state).... and mostly I blame Angela Merkel for that.

 

[Mr Jack]

I feel there is never enough trusted information when there is a referendum would be helpful if there was a table of for and against reasons for staying/leaving the EU

I gave such a list of reasons in the last thread but the real problem with the debate is that neither side agrees with the other's points. This means that a list of pros and cons is likely to be full of stuff that people disagree with so I can give you a list of arguments for both sides but you'll still need to address the validity of those claims.

 

[platypus]

I like the EU but I don't want to vote in and get TTIP and Turkey. EU hasn't really convinced me that these are not coming in the future (along with higher fee's that make some of the trade benefits less beneficial) so a bright future with TTIP is not my real goal.

What makes you think leaving the EU would remove the danger of TTIP? Whats to stop Westminster cosying up to Washington without the protection of something like the EU?

 

[Insanties_birth]

What makes you think leaving the EU would remove the danger of TTIP? Whats to stop Westminster cosying up to Washington without the protection of something like the EU?

America has already stated they're not interested in making trade agreemants (in other words we'll trade with them but not have huge trade deals like TTIP) with singular nations. If they are telling the truth when they tried to use that statement as a scare tactic it has onbly bounced and made me give +1 point to the out vote.

 

[platypus]

America has already stated they're not interested in making trade agreemants (in other words we'll trade with them but not have huge trade deals like TTIP) with singular nations. If they are telling the truth when they tried to use that statement as a scare tactic it has onbly bounced and made me give +1 point to the out vote.

You'll forgive me if I won't trust American (or British) politicians.

 

[scorza]

Former BoE governor: Euro is doomed, we're on an "extremely dangerous" path.

Lord (Mervyn) King of Lothbury says that further steps towards fiscal union will do nothing to address tensions in the currency area and may even cause it to fall apart. Unless the Eurozone is broken up, he says, there will be an “economic [and] political crisis” with endless bailouts, austerity and pressure from “elites in Europe” to create a “transfer union”.

Any further attempts at political and economic integration would likely lead to fierce resistance among the citizens of those countries, Lord King added.

“It will lead to not only an economic but [also] a political crisis. Monetary union has created a conflict between a centralised elite on the one hand, and the forces of democracy at the national level on the other. This is extraordinarily dangerous.”

Remember that a lot of people in the official in campaign, including leader Stuart Rose, wanted the UK to ditch Sterling and join the Euro.

 

[Judgeneo]

Except there is no reason to expect that Britain would head into a federal Europe, given that precedence exists for us to stay outside of EU arrangements, for example two of the most important European unions, Schengen and the Euro.

Doesn't really matter if we have special status or not, British interests will be increasingly sidelined as the continent integrates.


In my mind it is quite binary: We either cede soviergnity, integrate, and try to become one of the major decision makers. Or we leave and decide on only our own matters.


My preference is obviously for the latter.

 

[scorza]

What makes you think leaving the EU would remove the danger of TTIP? Whats to stop Westminster cosying up to Washington without the protection of something like the EU?

Nothing, but any government that signs a trade deal with America will be held to account for it by the British electorate. Suppose our government announced tomorrow that they'd signed a deal that meant the NHS had to be privatised - there'd be massive uproar and I can't imagine they wouldn't have to do a u-turn. What would be the consequences if Brussels did it? There'd be anger towards the government who would shrug it off and point their fingers at the EU. In the first scenario we could theoretically punish the PM's party at the next local/European/general election - in the latter err, we can't as no-one in the UK voted for Juncker anyway.

 

[Tummy]

Opinion still has not changed.

I will vote to remain a member of the European Union .

 

[SuperG]

In. Like it or not, the world is getting smaller, and we can either kick and scream and stamp our feet while trying to resist as long as possible, or embrace it and make the best of it.

+1