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

Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?

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scorza said:
So basically sterling is as valuable as it was two working days ago. Consider me unperturbed :cool:
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Heh, just in the same way when the headlines scream 'billions wiped off the stock market!!111' funny you never get the same sensational headlines of 'billions wiped ON the stock market' when it recovers a few days later :p
 
I recon our currency will recover by the end of the day. If it doesn't? Watch exports soar :D

It's of very little concern.

If we exit it will probably drop further. Not a terrible thing. The EU will probably collapse shortly after that then who will be laughing?

After all wasn't it the fact that we could devalue our currency that made us weather the economic crisis compared to our fellow Euro spenders?
 
deuse said:
It means sod all. When the dollar went up to $2 a pound was that caused by me farting a lot that day?
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The stench of the Brexit fart has made it drop and keep dropping until it is now only $1.42. The fall against the Euro has almost made it pass out from the smell.

So don't try and kid yourself or the rest of us that it means sod all. There is huge uncertainty in the markets and it will only get worse if opinion points to Brexit.
 
Mr Jack said:
I'm baffled as to why people think that being bound by a bunch of rules over which we'd now have no say at all represents a boost to British sovereignty.
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Which rules would a sovereign UK be "bound" to?

You're not doing a version of the pro-EU myth that countries like Norway "have to" comply with EU regulations despite not being having any control over them are you?

The truth is of course Norway don't "have" to do anything, they choose to opt in to certain EU agreements in exchange for trade deals and can out of them should the Norwegian people want to (unlike us at the moment).

Furthermore, to think a country with an economy the size of UK would have no affect of how the EU comes up with rules is asinine, we may not 'be at the table' but how the UK reacts to any new legislation will always be 'on the table' regardless of whether we are in or out of the EU.

The USA and China aren't in the EU but do you honestly think they have no sway over it? No we are not as big as those countries and never will be but we are big enough to influence anyone.
 
Cosimo said:
The stench of the Brexit fart has made it drop and keep dropping until it is now only $1.42. The fall against the Euro has almost made it pass out from the smell.

So don't try and kid yourself or the rest of us that it means sod all. There is huge uncertainty in the markets and it will only get worse if opinion points to Brexit.
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-0.023 on the $ is nothing. Unless you've invested wrong :D
 
estebanrey said:
Which rules would a sovereign UK be "bound" to?

You're not doing a version of the pro-EU myth that countries like Norway "have to" comply with EU regulations despite not being having any control over them are you?

The truth is of course Norway don't "have" to do anything, they choose to opt in to certain EU agreements in exchange for trade deals and can out of them should the Norwegian people want to (unlike us at the moment).

Furthermore, to think a country with an economy the size of UK would have no affect of how the EU comes up with rules is asinine, we may not 'be at the table' but how the UK reacts to any new legislation will always be 'on the table' regardless of whether we are in or out of the EU.

The USA and China aren't in the EU but do you honestly think they have no sway over it? No we are not as big as those countries and never will be but we are big enough to influence anyone.
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Exactly - the only rules we'd be bound to would be the common market rules for the EU. If you sell to a territory then you have to comply with that territory's rules - just like how when we sell stuff to the USA we have to comply with their rules. By voting to stay out of the EU, the people of Norway ensured that their industries weren't affected by EU rules in their own territory, as a result Norway has a healthy and profitable North Sea fishing industry whereas ours has declined under Brussels' common fisheries policy.
 
Cosimo said:
The stench of the Brexit fart has made it drop and keep dropping until it is now only $1.42. The fall against the Euro has almost made it pass out from the smell.

So don't try and kid yourself or the rest of us that it means sod all. There is huge uncertainty in the markets and it will only get worse if opinion points to Brexit.
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Which is exactly why the world needs to move away from market-driven economies.

Democracy should drive what this country does, not the paranoia levels of a bunch of traders in the City.

"The markets" will always act negatively to any kind of big change, so does that mean we can't ever ask the big questions? No doubt they would dip when the next General Election comes round and if Jeremy Corbyn looked like getting in, so should we ban elections or leaders with "socialist" views in case we cause 'uncertainty in the markets'?
 
estebanrey said:
"The markets" will always act negatively to any kind of big change, so does that mean we can't ever ask the big questions? No doubt they would dip when the next General Election comes round and if Jeremy Corbyn looked like getting in, so should we ban elections or leaders with "socialist" views in case we cause 'uncertainty in the markets'?
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markets don't necessarily react negatively to big change but in this situation we've got the status quo of staying in the EU vs some uncertainty/risks of exiting thus we see a drop when the chance of an exit increases, in this case as a result of Boris stepping up
 
Freakbro said:
Why don't you read what he actually said
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I did, why would any of the above countries lose their 'prosperous' status if the EU broke up? Maybe exclude Spain... it's pretty dire there at the moment.

Logic just isn't being used. Why would these countries stop importing/exporting the same as normal? Populations demands don't change regardless of an EU membership status. If I want a BMW I will buy one regardless of a brexit or not.

Arguably some countries would be better off out of the EU, especially some of the southern ones.
 
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