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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Hades said:
Yup. Wveryone I know in my industry were expected to opt out and have done so.
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Not many places really had to either there was panic when it was first introduced as everyone thought that you couldn't work more than 48 hours in a week which wasn't the case. You could and can. You can do 70 hours and still not be breaking the directive.
 
kitch9 said:
You can do 70 hours and still not be breaking the directive.
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But why would you want to? :p

And anyway, that just proves the point not detracts from it. The European directive is about stopping companies forcing people to work excessively long hours, but still has the caveats that you can do if you want.

Win win
 
Former Aussie PM Jon Howard says Britain should leave EU.

“The European Union is an affront to the sovereignty of its member countries,” he said.

“Britain can’t really control her borders, and she can’t really exercise the sort of authority when it comes to negotiating free trade agreements,” he said, adding that Britain could not strike a free-trade agreement with China as an example.

“It went too far, and once you set in motion the process towards political integration it either becomes unstoppable, or it begins to fall apart and I think on either ground there is a case for Britain leaving.”
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Meanwhile the BBC has no fewer than seven articles about last night's Oscars on its front page :rolleyes:
 
v0n said:
Actually - why do people believe that Brexit can change something in terms of immigration or even immigration policy? Not only leaving EU doesn't turn back the clock or stop globalism, but it doesn't even mean that Labour and Conservatives will somehow fade into background and let UKIP or BNP rule the country?
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What is bizarre about the whole immigration/Brexit thing is that it's cited as one of the most important issues in the leave debate yet everyone seems to conveniently ignore that more than 50% of net migration to the UK is non-EU nationals.
 
[TW]Fox;29226751 said:
What is bizarre about the whole immigration/Brexit thing is that it's cited as one of the most important issues in the leave debate yet everyone seems to conveniently ignore that more than 50% of net migration to the UK is non-EU nationals.
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Only because Cameron can't do his job. They promised immigration cuts for years. Now we got to wait till 2020 :(
 
Freakbro said:
umm...what's upset you about that?
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It's frivolous nonsense at a time when the world is on the brink of a major catastrophe - we've got Syria, collapsing oil prices, Greece almost a failed state and the UK deciding whether to leave the EU - plus Donald Trump may secure the GOP nomination tomorrow. One article about the Oscars would have sufficed, I dunno why the views of an actor or a pop star are worth more than anyone else's, then again I don't imagine we'd hear about James Woods' speech if ever wins an award (I'm guessing from now on black people have more chance of being nominated for an Oscar than a conservative :p )
 
scorza said:
It's frivolous nonsense at a time when the world is on the brink of a major catastrophe - we've got Syria, collapsing oil prices, Greece almost a failed state and the UK deciding whether to leave the EU - plus Donald Trump may secure the GOP nomination tomorrow. One article about the Oscars would have sufficed, I dunno why the views of an actor or a pop star are worth more than anyone else's, then again I don't imagine we'd hear about James Woods' speech if ever wins an award (I'm guessing from now on black people have more chance of being nominated for an Oscar than a conservative :p )
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You need to loosen up, get out more and/or get laid :p

The world is always on the brink of a major catastrophe and you can deconstruct everything into frivolous nonsense if you want to deconstruct it enough and only compare it to life and death situations.

But thankfully, for the rest of us, life is more than just looking into the abyss and worrying about armageddon and 'frivolous nonsense' AKA enjoyable and pleasurable things are just as an important part in the milieu of life :)
 
[TW]Fox;29226751 said:
What is bizarre about the whole immigration/Brexit thing is that it's cited as one of the most important issues in the leave debate yet everyone seems to conveniently ignore that more than 50% of net migration to the UK is non-EU nationals.
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I think you're getting confused re: net migration

but regardless the issue isn't so much that people are coming here, the biggest group of non-EU migrants are students who then mostly have to return home after study. The issue(IMO) is uncontrolled migration - that is something that affects EU migrants specifically.
 
Glaucus said:
It's impossible to tell.
However chances are man in the street would be far worse with an exit.
Europe gives us so many workers, consumers, environmental laws, that uk governments just aren't interested in without being forced.
And that's before you look at the likely hit to the economy and what happens with Scotland etc.
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Is EU actually looking to implement TTIP properly? That could lower the standards fo the environmental argument if implemented as I've seen them mentioning about oil spills and whatnot being allowed to occur without being able to sue companies. Not sure how TTIP is going on though really and if it's a lot of headlines nad misinformation.

dowie said:
I think you're getting confused re: net migration

but regardless the issue isn't so much that people are coming here, the biggest group of non-EU migrants are students who then mostly have to return home after study. The issue(IMO) is uncontrolled migration - that is something that affects EU migrants specifically.
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This, also if turkey gets let into the EU then who knows what will happen migration wise. I feel we'll continue to see a rise in eastern european migration while also getting turkish migration and like you said uncontrolled migration from elsewhere too. Not to mention that's happening at a time during a migration crisis so we're going to get more outside the EU soon anyway with the political situation in the middle east not getting better. If we don't control migration (even if just a little) then it can be quite damaging in the burdens it places on councils and whatnot.
 
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