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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A few months ago I received my annual tax summary for 2014-2015.

I earned £37036.27

I paid £8949.45 in tax and national insurance contributions. They helpfully broke down where all that tax was spent. This is the list

Welfare £2264
Health £1781
State pensions £1146
Education £1119
Defence £483
National Debt Interest £447
Public Order and Safety £394
Transport £268
Business and Industry £242
Government Administration £179
Culture (Libraries Museums Sport etc) £161
Environment £152
Housing and Utilities £143
Overseas Aid £116
UK Contribution to the EU Budget £54

That's right folks - £54 to the EU on earnings of £37000.

As a result I will be voting to stay in.
 
Andy90 said:
A few months ago I received my annual tax summary for 2014-2015.

I earned £37036.27

I paid £8949.45 in tax and national insurance contributions. They helpfully broke down where all that tax was spent. This is the list

Welfare £2264
Health £1781
State pensions £1146
Education £1119
Defence £483
National Debt Interest £447
Public Order and Safety £394
Transport £268
Business and Industry £242
Government Administration £179
Culture (Libraries Museums Sport etc) £161
Environment £152
Housing and Utilities £143
Overseas Aid £116
UK Contribution to the EU Budget £54

That's right folks - £54 to the EU on earnings of £37000.

As a result I will be voting to stay in.
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but how much of the welfare, education, transport, health, administration, housing and utilities bills went to EU migrants here or sent out of the country to their dependants back home?
 
Andy90 said:
A few months ago I received my annual tax summary for 2014-2015.

I earned £37036.27

I paid £8949.45 in tax and national insurance contributions. They helpfully broke down where all that tax was spent. This is the list

Welfare £2264
Health £1781
State pensions £1146
Education £1119
Defence £483
National Debt Interest £447
Public Order and Safety £394
Transport £268
Business and Industry £242
Government Administration £179
Culture (Libraries Museums Sport etc) £161
Environment £152
Housing and Utilities £143
Overseas Aid £116
UK Contribution to the EU Budget £54

That's right folks - £54 to the EU on earnings of £37000.

As a result I will be voting to stay in.
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Unnecessary. Please remain respectful when posting. Gilly.
 
Andy90 said:
A few months ago I received my annual tax summary for 2014-2015.

I earned £37036.27

I paid £8949.45 in tax and national insurance contributions. They helpfully broke down where all that tax was spent. This is the list

Welfare £2264
Health £1781
State pensions £1146
Education £1119
Defence £483
National Debt Interest £447
Public Order and Safety £394
Transport £268
Business and Industry £242
Government Administration £179
Culture (Libraries Museums Sport etc) £161
Environment £152
Housing and Utilities £143
Overseas Aid £116
UK Contribution to the EU Budget £54

That's right folks - £54 to the EU on earnings of £37000.

As a result I will be voting to stay in.
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Much cheaper than the TV license so another reason for staying in! :D
 
Andy90 said:
Yes, that's all I earn as a 29 year service Police Officer. Nice to be able to mock from the battlements of your keyboard....
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Well, since it's nearly 50% over the average wage of the country, I found the initial comment of deuses rather strange anyway :confused: (not that that's unusual! :p)

People really do have a distorted view on what is a good wage, just because people in london earn XYZ'000's
 
scorza said:
It's true - I saw a link to this story on reddit yesterday https://yougov.co.uk/news/2016/02/28/eurosceptic-map-britain/

Kinda blows the argument that it's people who are the least affected by migration who are the most against it.
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That's quite a curious map. Shows a lot of diversity in terms of which parts of the UK are for/against the EU. It seems it isn't as simple as cities equal high migration, and are thus more Eurosceptic. There are plenty of cities with large migrant populations that show up green on the map. Likewise, there are some large rural areas with tiny migrant communities showing up red.

Wealthy rural Staffordshire being heavily Eurosceptic is quite amusing, particularly when it ranks above neighbouring areas that do have a high migrant population. Stoke-on-Trent and Walsall even go so far as being pro-Europe.

Here's a map of where migrants live in the UK:

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While there are some areas that match up with the data in that link, overall the two maps don't resemble each other.

TBH I'm not convinced that actual, local, migration is a large factor in people voting for Brexit. I can only assume there are other factors influencing many of the hotspots on YouGov's map (economic factors, concerns over sovereignty, perceived migration).
 
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Age, gender, ethnicity, income level, educational attainment and highest qualification held, occupation, population density, unemployment rate, area classification or postcode, crime levels, political affiliation, voting record and voting intention, opinion of the government, level of investment in the area, sample size and distribution, public health and well-being, homelessness, bin collection schedule, maintenance of public spaces, rates of home and foreign travel, population flows through the area, pollution levels, priority list of common media sources consumed, life expectancy, proximity of green spaces...

You'd need to fix quite a lot mappings for that first map to tell you much of interest. YouGov has fun snapshots though. :)
 
scorza said:
It's true - I saw a link to this story on reddit yesterday https://yougov.co.uk/news/2016/02/28/eurosceptic-map-britain/

Kinda blows the argument that it's people who are the least affected by migration who are the most against it.
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You'll be shocked to know that I live in the 5th-most Europhile borough in the country. :)

As I've said before, the biggest divide is in education. Even in Scotland, it's no surprise that Edinburgh and Aberdeen are particularly Europhile.
 
Tunney said:
You'll be shocked to know that I live in the 5th-most Europhile borough in the country. :)

As I've said before, the biggest divide is in education. Even in Scotland, it's no surprise that Edinburgh and Aberdeen are particularly Europhile.
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"Even in Scotland..." - lol.

I'm not sure about your claims of a divide in education, almost all of the Home Counties, where education is particularly good, are edging towards euroscepticism - maybe they're the ones who feel they've been forced out of London by high levels of immigration.
 
scorza said:
I'm not sure about your claims of a divide in education, almost all of the Home Counties, where education is particularly good, are edging towards euroscepticism - maybe they're the ones who feel they've been forced out of London by high levels of immigration.
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Just because they've moved doesn't make them well educated.:p
 
scorza said:
I'm not sure about your claims of a divide in education, almost all of the Home Counties, where education is particularly good, are edging towards euroscepticism - maybe they're the ones who feel they've been forced out of London by high levels of immigration.
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That's what comes from the polling data. Those with degrees are roughly twice as likely to vote to Remain as those without. It's one of the largest factors along with age group.
 
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