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....

Luke Johnson
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http://www.cityam.com/239866/why-ill-be-voting-to-leave-the-costly-dysfunctional-and-bureaucratic-eu

Dear Friend,
We send £350 million a week to the EU – enough to build a new hospital every week
250,000 EU migrants a year come to the UK – it’s out of control and damages the NHS
It’s safer to take back control and spend our money on our priorities

Imagine if we Vote Leave in 56 days’ time… Our entrepreneurs could focus on creating jobs and supporting the economy rather than reading through reams of regulations from Brussels.

Free business from EU regulation
Employment Minister Priti Patel has today made a speech on how we can free small businesses from unnecessary regulation after we Vote Leave. Only 6% of UK businesses export to the EU, yet 100% have to abide by regulation from Brussels. HM Treasury estimate that the cost of complying with burdensome EU red tape is the equivalent of £4,600 per household every year.
Ms Patel stated that after we take back control on 23 June, the UK can perform an audit of EU regulation to ensure that small businesses are not shackled by unnecessary rules. Pro-EU campaigners including Nick Clegg and David Cameron have previously called for small companies to be exempt from these burdens, however their attempts were vetoed by Brussels.
Small businesses are the backbone of our economy, accounting for 60% of private sector employment and making up 99% of total businesses in the UK. After we Vote Leave on 23 June, they will be free of stifling EU regulation and can focus on what they do best - creating jobs and driving economic growth.

We can better protect workers’ rights outside the EU
David Cameron and former trade union leader Sir Brendan Barber today claimed that leaving the EU would be a ‘disaster’ for workers’ rights. It is sad to see the Prime Minister doing Britain down. We don’t have to give up control to EU politicians and unelected EU judges to protect working people. Indeed, UK law is often far more generous than EU law, such as on maternity pay and leave.
It is a myth to say that we must stay in the EU to protect workers. You only have to look at the high levels of unemployment in Greece, Spain, Portugal and the rest of the eurozone, to see that the EU is no friend of the worker. In 2009, Sir Brendan himself warned that the European Court has ‘undermined’ minimum standards. The safer choice for British workers is to Vote Leave on 23 June.

jimmy it's OK having all these paper articles but they must be seen and explained to the greater masses , Dave's appearing to be a lying toad eh .

Dear Friend

Economically we are better by far to be in the EU. It's our largest market.

It's not possible to change the minds of those with existing strong views. Arguments just tend to reinforce existing positions.
Both sides are spinning and counter arguments just cause confusion for those still uncertain .
As the vote appears to be roughly evenly divided, it will be in the hands of the small number of so far uncommitted.
At the end of the day I suspect personalities will make the difference for many.

If Farage, Boris and Galloway want out, who wants to be friends with them??. The small number of critical votes to swing it will probably be based on voting against those you can't stand.

As opposed to Cameroon, Clegg, Osborne and Corbyn..


ffs will, are you mad?

we were out for dinner last night with our neighbours
the husband had been tending towards staying in but will now vote "out" and his wife is still considering

nothing spectacular in that, but i was pretty surprised that he was not an "in" man

You'v been radicalising your neighbours then cynic .

Your speaking to the neighbours again are you?.. There not proud are they -):

hahaha!
he's now retired but was a very successful and clever businessman

Hoping something would rub off were you? -):

would be delighted if it did, but far too late now i fear
a really nice couple too, and no chance of that rubbing off on me either :-)

Assuredly -):

more to the point, neither washington nor moscow nor peking nor riyadh would have legal control over many important and even fundamental parts of our lives

How about kowtowing in Dubai?

china and dubai have no link and dubai has no oil
do you have any more asinine comment?

that is surely a rhetorical question for we all know the answer

Are you referring to:

Chinese Nuclear energy?

Or, is that the French?

Whose thumb on the button?

Wonder what the road charges would be allowing transport through the tunnel and across borders for UK transporters?

Thick as concrete that old boy.

Fred.

The charges etc would be the same for both parties, in or out.

Meanwhile, things are really going with a bang in €uroland.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3564284/Burn-rich-Porsche-goes-flames-10-000-students-activists-clash-police-riots-labour-laws-France.html


ps. It's not just La Belle France.

Max.

Some in the UK were saying that about political change in Germany in the 1930s.