Poll: The EU Referendum: What Will You Vote? (New Poll)

[skippy2421]

Could be a fact that any effects of staying or leaving have been grossly exaggerated and in reality, it won't make a jot of difference to normal folk.

It's funny you say this as this is kind of my thinking right now. I'm torn between which way to vote but I think either way the UK will manage just fine even after the initial shock of leaving.

I personally think it's almost impossible to know how an out vote would pan out in the long term so at the end of the day people will be voting on principle rather than any sort of calculated figures or facts. I suspect areas such as the impact of EU law on UK sovereignty, a feeling of belonging to the EU (or not) as well as the immigration argument (unfortunately) may well well be big deciders here if it was to swing to an out vote as opposed to essentially guessing the long term economics.

 

[Caged]

Is that not what unions are for?

This never-ending cycle of questions is boring.

The EU isn't preventing your mate from encouraging all his fellow staff at his job from joining a union. You seem to believe that he would be better off if we left the EU, can you try putting the reasoning into words?

 

[Danthus]

Is that not what unions are for?

Not if the Conservatives have their way.

 

[itchy]

This never-ending cycle of questions is boring.

The EU isn't preventing your mate from encouraging all his fellow staff at his job from joining a union. You seem to believe that he would be better off if we left the EU, can you try putting the reasoning into words?

You missed my point.....

He is ignorant to the implications of staying in the EU or leaving.

Therefore his decision is clouded so to say!!

 

[Caged]

For him though there might not be any noticeable ones

 

[itchy]

To be honest, I don't know the implications of leaving the EU....

BUT!

****`em as I say, no love lost and soldier on!

Its an English thing.

 

[The_Abyss]

A member here - lovelyhead (not sure what his original name was or indeed if he is still here) famously made a number of extraordinary statements supporting Scottish Independence, and was (rightly) taken to account for a number of them as well as being heartily mocked along the way.

Suddenly a large number of the contributors to this thread seem remarkably similar, and there are still four months to go

 

[datalol-jack]

About 5% of the UK workforce earn the NMW.

About 21% of the workforce earn less then the Living Wage.

Has being in the EU helped them?

I suppose the establishment answer would be that: they benefit from lower prices; higher minimum wages; greater job growth; get protection from worse evils than zero-hours contracts; and the punitive measures on both the Non-EU migrants and the newly agreed benefit curbs on the EU lot as well.

Obviously, depending on your political church, region and referendum stance, you'll have criticisms of this view coming out of No 11. I found data to support the chancellor's interpretation. I also found reports and anecdotes for and against each point.

Again, whatever your politics, it's hard to claim or promise that deprivation and poverty can be alleviated overnight. On balance, I swing on the side of saying that in the EU, we shall have more opportunities and supporting ears willing to do something about the problem, and there's money to be found for doing so, even if our government chooses not to do certain things out of ideological commitment. A bloc can take a multi-national to task, a single government -- not so much any more.

 

[Skeeter]

He is ignorant to the implications of staying in the EU or leaving.

This statement is true of 99% of the people who will turn up to the referendum.

 

[dowie]

not an unreasonable argument from Boris tbh...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...-the-change-we-want-vote-to-leave-the-EU.html

 

[George Hincapie]

This statement is true of 99% of the people who will turn up to the referendum.

*sigh*

The Dons should really just start whanging life time bans out to people posting BS idiotic statistics like this

 

[The_Abyss]

We pay in £20bn a year and get £8bn back so however you look at it we're simply subsidising other countries.

If you started a club and those were the terms would you want to join it ?

And that's pretty much how the UK taxation system works already.

 

[Danthus]

To be honest, I don't know the implications of leaving the EU....

BUT!

****`em as I say, no love lost and soldier on!

Its an English thing.

 

[datalol-jack]

A guy in my History class, back in the sixth-form days, used to vote Tory because his favourite colour was blue... I'm not joking.

 

[itchy]

A guy in my History class, back in the sixth-form days, used to vote Tory because his favourite colour was blue... I'm not joking.

I see the condescending post.

 

[The_Abyss]

not an unreasonable argument from Boris tbh...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...-the-change-we-want-vote-to-leave-the-EU.html

Not exactly the thoughts of someone who was claimed to be wrestling with his decision.

 

[datalol-jack]

I see the condescending post.

Told you everyone had anecdotes.

 

[Caged]

Which side of the debate are the papers coming down on?

 

[The_Abyss]

Which side of the debate are the papers coming down on?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-35623911

Both, but it is all doom on either side.

 

[bowey]

There should be a simple test on EU before alowed to vote. I bet even if it was as simple as how many countries are in the EU and name 5, when did UK join EU, name current president of European council, when was last election to EU parliament and who won in UK a lot of people would struggle to get it all correct.

Hopefully you're not the person in charge of asking the questions since the UK never "joined" the EU in the first place.