Poll: The EU Referendum: How Will You Vote? (May 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: 522 41.6%

  • Leave the European Union

    Votes: 733 58.4%
  • Total voters
    1,255
  • Poll closed .
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Tunney said:
Individual voter registration was brought in last year and that caused one million people to disappear from the electoral roll. A cynic would say that the Tories did it to kick as many left-learning young people off the roll as possible. Unfortunately the government now needs their votes in the EU referendum. :p
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A cynic with an alternative perspective might say we've expunged a bunch of phony voters from the lists of rotten boroughs who probably postal voted.
 
Interesting piece from the Guardian: Up to 200,000 students could miss vote on EU referendum, poll shows. With the vote falling at the very end of term, or the very start of the summer holidays, for many university students; there's real concern that a large number of students won't be registered in the right place to vote. Since students are heavily pro-EU, this could hurt Remain.
 
There is still time for them to apply for a postal vote with the slip sent to the address of their choosing. I'm planning the same thing myself as I'm going to be on holiday.

Although I must say I rarely voted at Uni because I was too lazy to re-register.
 
Just had another leaflet through the door warning about EU exit, with Richard Branson on there.

If that's not enough to push someone to vote out I don't know what is.
 
I need to register to vote and I will be

I cba for the may ones


As said earlier on page. No point in listening to either side now. It's getting worse and worse
Latest thing is celebrity people jumping on the bandwagon. Ugh
 
TBH, just want to get this thing over with. People just seem to froth at the mouth when they see media with an opposing view. Gotten to the point where everyone and his dog thinks they are an expert and those who were fence sitters have chosen based on which brexit/remain politicians they like or don't like.

I am just stick of the stupid, over used buzzwords political buzzwords being thrown around like they are clever, while in reality they are miss-used. Seems like this vote is looking more like the American election where you have words like 'lefties', 'liberals' and 'terrorist sympathisers' on one side while on the other there is 'racists', 'uneducated', 'ignorant'.
 
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^ Pretty much how I feel.

I really am taking a disliking the underhanded tactics being used by the campaigners. I also wish Vote Leave would stop quoting the £350m/pw figure as well, as anyone with half a brain knows that's completely wrong and it's insulting peoples' intelligence.

Got two leaflets through the post today. One Pro-EU saying it was full of "facts" from "independent experts". The source for many of the "facts" being the Treasury. Righto. :rolleyes:

The other leaflet was neutral.

In other news, I see scores of celebs are backing remain. These being people who can insulate themselves from any negative impact either way and in many cases spend most of their time abroad.
 
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Trifid said:
Yeah, forgot about The FT paywall (now I can't view it either!). That article is better written too and highlights how unnecessary it is if they exceed the requirements by 7% already...
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It's not much of a "threat" to them if they do it already, is it?

The requirement to fund new material is interesting based on point of subscription is more onerous but I'm more interested by the potential ban on geoblocking.
 
Mr Jack said:
It's not much of a "threat" to them if they do it already, is it?

The requirement to fund new material is interesting based on point of subscription is more onerous but I'm more interested by the potential ban on geoblocking.
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The EU has a reputation of creating excessive regulation (and was part of Cameron's negotiation to reduce this.) This however, is further regulation of a market that does not need it and the headline of 20% target is clearly unnecessary if they were exceeding it without imposed targets. It will however create problems for companies like HBO if they want to tap into the European market directly.
 
Narj said:
^ Pretty much how I feel.

I really am taking a disliking the underhanded tactics being used by the campaigners. I also wish Vote Leave would stop quoting the £350m/pw figure as well, as anyone with half a brain knows that's completely wrong and it's insulting peoples' intelligence.

Got two leaflets through the post today. One Pro-EU saying it was full of "facts" from "independent experts". The source for many of the "facts" being the Treasury. Righto. :rolleyes:

The other leaflet was neutral.

In other news, I see scores of celebs are backing remain. These being people who can insulate themselves from any negative impact either way and in many cases spend most of their time abroad.
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As someone on the out side that figure of £350M a week bothers me also. You'd think the amount of money being sent to Brussels should be fairly easy to find out accurately instead of the variety of figures bandied about by both sides. Dodgy Dave and BoJo should both pop down to the treasury (without Gideon) Have a look at the books, decide on a figure and both sides campaign on the same amount.
 
Trifid said:
Yeah, forgot about The FT paywall (now I can't view it either!). That article is better written too and highlights how unnecessary it is if they exceed the requirements by 7% already...
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whys it unnecessary, all it means is current providers already meet requirements. Any new comers will have to do the same. it also stops the loop hole of only having a certain percentage in the country you are mainly registered in, rather than all countries you supply.

perfectly sensible mandate.
 
Glaucus said:
whys it unnecessary, all it means is current providers already meet requirements. Any new comers will have to do the same. it also stops the loop hole of only having a certain percentage in the country you are mainly registered in, rather than all countries you supply.

perfectly sensible mandate.
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Is it necessary to the stable running of a country (or group of countries)? No, it is not. It is yet further regulation that is imposed on private companies which is unrequired, and people with a over inflated salary and special low tax rate used our tax money to produce. I gave an example of HBO earlier. What are they going to do to fill the quota if they wanted to access the European market? Europeans would subscribe to their service to watch The Walking Dead, not watch local rubbish they added on to meet a pointless quota.

These online streaming services are a perfect example of a free market. If they hold content people want, people will subscribe. If the people want euro trash then a European provider will meet the challenge of providing that service and people will buy it. People vote with money, we don't need politicians fiddling with this and making entry to market places more expensive then necessary.
 
oh dear god.
lots of laws in the uk exist.

it's all part of consumer law and is a very good thing for the public.

just shows how biased and blind you are sprouting such nonsense. where you up in arms over roaming charges for phone companies? or annual leave rights, break at work rights or any number of other similar laws.
hardly rubbish when most are already meeting requirements, so there is demand for such content.
 
Glaucus said:
whys it unnecessary, all it means is current providers already meet requirements. Any new comers will have to do the same. it also stops the loop hole of only having a certain percentage in the country you are mainly registered in, rather than all countries you supply.

perfectly sensible mandate.
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cause its basically pork barrel spending by regulation.


"hey giant American media producers want to sell your on-line services in the EU, well you'll have to spend stupid money on **** programs, no one here even wants to watch, so you can"
 
Glaucus said:
oh dear god.
lots of laws in the uk exist.

it's all part of consumer law and is a very good thing for the public.

just shows how biased and blind you are sprouting such nonsense. where you up in arms over roaming charges for phone companies? or annual leave rights, break at work rights or any number of other similar laws.
hardly rubbish when most are already meeting requirements, so there is demand for such content.
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Nice reply... Almost bordering on personal attacks to defend your position. Fortunately Tefal understands it.
 
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