Thought I'd start a new thread as this is going to be a major talking point this year...have not made up my mind yet...(unlike bucksfizz)....but thinking of voting for an exit as Europe is not doing Britain any good at all it seems....

And of course to cut the deficit the UK needs to sell more goods and services abroad, like to the broader market ie commonwealth rest of world etc....

Also beware all the right wing newspapers such as the Telegraph, Daily Mail, Express and Sun. You won't get a balanced view from them any more than you will from the left wing papers such as the Mirror.

Well you certainly don't get a neutral view or reliable figures from the government, what you've got to try and do is sift through all you read/hear/see and use common sense and experience to see what adds up...

fred and stan would be stumped..

Pot & Kettle alert!

Pinky & Perky! Dumb & Dumber = fred & stan LOL!

Granny must be proud of you.

You would think Britain was some 3rd rate Dictator run communist state before we joined the common market or is it the EU . wondered when they would start using celebrities , just imagine the last few weeks .

If some of you RW Muppets took your blinkers off for once in your lives and actually thought about "All" the issues about EU membership you would might just might be better informed.. fat chance of that happening I suppose on here.

some of us like me gave a great deal of thought to BOTH sides of the argument and made a decision accordingly

Imagine Stan saying that ,someone who is influenced by Fred of all people .

I have thought through all the pro's and con's and there is not many pro's

None on here thinks your right Stan .

I don't have a stance on the subject JB as I stated months ago on here so don't start making assumptions and pointing the finger.

Coming from someone who thought the TSB BANK was still independent 3 months after it was taken over , and says pot kettle alert , pot kettle alert like a demented parrot day in day out .

Of do shut you boring oink and give the organ grinder a right of rely.. if he's got one.

There really is only one issue that matters Stanley. Is it sustainable?
The clear answer is no and enlarging the EU because of mismanagement now, such as adding Turkey, will only make matters worse. All the umming and arring doesn't get around the fact that I wouldn't trust the EU commission to run a corner shop, let alone all of europe and part of asia.
Many of the new additions are former soviet bloc members where loyalty to the cause was more important than loyalty to the people. As new governments are formed, such as in Poland, the people want to know just exactly what these apparatchiks, many now in EU posts, were up to during that time. THE EU, like the Soviet Union, doesn't like democracy. It is dangerous to the cause.

Boring my god , you obviously have a lot of failings in real life , so you come on a BB and think your the bees knees who bosses people about , a very sad person with the attention span of a Goldfish .

It, The subject is a very very complex one and until all people take the time to go into 'All" the aspects of it they can't just sound off about a few subjects (despite how important they are to them) on a message board.

And what do you ever add to the message board at any point in time except insults and name calling , grow up .

personally, i don't think "it" is far off the mark, though his last para is a bit suspect of questionable relevance

Leaving EU would boost UK economy by 4 percent - economists


http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-economists-idUKKCN0XP15O