EU referendum - Stay or Leave?

[Mervyn and Trish]

It's clear on this thread we're largely arguing round in circles. So here's a simple question. Has anyone changed their minds since Call-me-Dave arrived home following his victory in Brussels, or during the campaign since.

I haven't.

[Happydays]

No I haven't changed my mind, I want out!

[anniec]

It's clear on this thread we're largely arguing round in circles. So here's a simple question. Has anyone changed their minds since Call-me-Dave arrived home following his victory in Brussels, or during the campaign since.

I haven't.

Neither have I.

[towny44]

No change of mind here either.

[Silver_Shiney]

I'm still firmly for out - actually even more so since CMD's "triumph"

[Delboy]

No change of mind here either, I will vote to stay in.

Whatever the outcome, this country will still be run a Tory government, whoever is its leader.

[Onelife]

Dig up your lawns folks and turn them into vegetable plots....

I'm out!

[oldbluefox]

I wonder how the fishermen (few that they are) will be voting?
I have read all the arguments but for me the negatives outweigh the positives. Had we had a surplus of exports over imports I might have been swayed but I cannot help feeling we are being taken for an expensive ride by an over bloated administration. There are few examples of EU investment in this neck of the woods. If I'm totally honest I can't think of any.
It's out for me.

[Frank Manning]

I am friends with a fisherman on the IOW, and he is voting 'leave', because he wants all the Spanish and French trawlers out of our fishing grounds. Strangely I watched one of my own cruise videos as there was precious little on TV last night (still trying to tempt Sue), and I focussed the camera on a Spanish trawler 'Loretta' in Vigo which is registered to Falmouth. A neat way to get round our territorial waters claims.

Also yesterday a friend sent me a video of Nigel Farage at the EU speaking with Merkel and Hollande present. It would have been amusing had he not been so rude about the Germans and dismissive of the French. The trouble is he is fixated on the immigration issue, and that is to miss the main point of the EU really.

[barney]

"The trouble is he is fixated on the immigration issue, and that is to miss the main point of the EU really."

But is it Frank?

It's probably fine having that opinion in Poole in Dorset, which has hardly been affected, but give a thought to the good folk of other areas who have been absolutely overwhelmed with EU immigration.

When the agreement was passed for unlimited free movement of people within the EU, nobody foresaw the mass migration that we have endured in certain parts. Have a little poodle up to the Peterborough area and see what you think? And then ask the residents there if they think it's an issue.

It is openly admitted that the recent spike in our population is running at about +300K per annum
That is all immigrants not just EU.
That means building a city the size of Southampton every year just to stand still.

You may find that coming soon,there will need to be massive development in the Poole area to house these people.
Will it be an issue then, I wonder, if you can't get an appointment at your doctors or hospital?

The constant and unlimited growth is something that must be discussed.

With the minimum wage going to £9 by 2020, can you imagine how many young workers from eastern Europe are going to head here.
The average wage at the moment in Romania is about £2.50 or so I'm told, so you can't blame them.

[johnds]

No change here !

I'm out

John

[barney]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-e ... m-35966589

Another one chucks his two bobs worth in

[barney]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-e ... m-35980571

So, we have to pay for it as well

Questions should be asked in the House

[Manoverboard]

We had a leaflet delivered yesterday, it was possible to read it as being in favour of leaving ... and staying in.

[Peter D]

9.3 million of public money that could have been better spent elsewhere. Disgusted.

[Solent Richard]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-e ... m-35980571

So, we have to pay for it as well

Questions should be asked in the House

I've made the decision that when it arrives I will forward it without postage to Conservative Central Office.

Interesting to see that the EU has decided to postpone a decision to block Britain deporting asylum seekers under EU plans to scrap Dublin regulation until after the UK Referendum...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04 ... nder-eu-p/

[screwy]

So we pay Billions of £s a year into the EU and what does this Govt do when it was able to apply for funding to help with the flood victims over the winter....bugger all..then they spend 9.3 mil on a booklet telling us how we should all vote to stay in..while still giving 12/13 bil a year on overseas aid... Umph..!!!

[anniec]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-e ... m-35980571

So, we have to pay for it as well

Questions should be asked in the House

I've made the decision that when it arrives I will forward it without postage to Conservative Central Office.

Interesting to see that the EU has decided to postpone a decision to block Britain deporting asylum seekers under EU plans to scrap Dublin regulation until after the UK Referendum...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04 ... nder-eu-p/

Listening to Radio 4 this morning, and someone in the Out campaign (may have been Fox, but I was driving and only half listening) suggested bunging it into an envelope and sending it to No. 10.

[Silver_Shiney]

Yes, it was Fox - apparently he's set/setting up an online petition to block this mass mailing. I can't find it, so if anyone can let me have the URL, I'd be grateful.

[qbman1]

Yes, it was Fox - apparently he's set/setting up an online petition to block this mass mailing. I can't find it, so if anyone can let me have the URL, I'd be grateful.

Is it this one:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/116762

[Solent Richard]

Yes, it was Fox - apparently he's set/setting up an online petition to block this mass mailing. I can't find it, so if anyone can let me have the URL, I'd be grateful.

I'll keep my ears peeled and report back.

[Solent Richard]

Yes, it was Fox - apparently he's set/setting up an online petition to block this mass mailing. I can't find it, so if anyone can let me have the URL, I'd be grateful.

I'll keep my ears peeled and report back.

Done and dusted...


https://petition.parliament.uk/petition ... atures/new

[Silver_Shiney]

Thanks, Cubie!

[Mervyn and Trish]

Signed .

[Onelife]

Thanks for the link qb...

Signed, sealed and delivered.