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....

Austrian exit poll tied at 50-50
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Citizens from over 70 nations will be able to vote in the UK referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union if they have UK residence. But most European Union nationalities will be excluded.

Commonwealth migrants from 54 states - including ­Australia, Canada, India, Pakistan and Nigeria - can join the electoral roll as long are they are residents in the UK.

Unlike the general election, Commonwealth citizens in Gibraltar will also be eligible to vote in the EU referendum.

Bizarrely, Irish Republic citizens who are resident in UK can vote.

Proof positive, if it was needed, as to who Cameroon works for..




Tory fury as David Cameron suggests Labour government in Europe better than Conservative one outside it







By Kate McCann, Senior political correspondent
22 May 2016 • 7:51pm


David Cameron has "betrayed" Conservative activists and MPs by suggesting that a Labour Government inside the EU would be better than the Conservatives under Brexit, a senior Cabinet source has warned.

Asked if the UK would be "stronger, safer and better off" in the EU under Labour or out under the Tories the Prime Minister said the Europe vote is the more important decision.

He added that "you can always get rid" of political parties in Westminster in five years time, but that the EU referendum vote will be "impossible to reverse".

His comments have prompted fury among Conservative MPs and Leave campaigners, who believe Mr Cameron was suggesting a Jeremy Corbyn-led Government would be a price worth paying to remain in the EU.

One senior cabinet source told The Telegraph: "Members of the Conservative party, grassroots supporters and MPs worked incredibly hard to deliver a Conservative majority at last year's election.

"For the Prime Minister to now hint that a Labour Government could be a positive prospect is a kick in the teeth that some people will see as a betrayal.


“But if you ask me what is a more important decision, a General Election or this Europe vote, actually the Europe vote is more important. Because if you don’t like the Government, you can always get rid of them in five years’ time”

David Cameron



More: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/22/tory-fury-as-david-cameron-suggests-labour-government-in-europe/

That is complete nonsense. I saw the interview. Robert Peston tried to make out that Cameron said that but he didn't. He just said that the referendum is more important than a general election which it is because governments are temporary.

No no Haystack.

Dave fucked up this time, or his controllers did.

The hand up his back making his mouth move was missing, and so off it ran...out of control.


btw, the mask is slipping...

Not at all. Robert Peston even tried to get Cameron to agree that he had said that Labour IN would be better than Conservative OUT, but Cameron said that wasn't the case. It was just Peston trying to put words in his mouth. A bit of a non event. Peston is trying too hard to make a name for himself since leaving BBC and going to ITV.

Is there really a Haystack or is it just a stooge for central office that go on BBs to defend their dodgy deceptive lie machine that is Dave .

Haystack why has the UK(cameron) given 2 billion euro's to help Turkey
achieve fast track membership of the EU...Where has this money gone
if its not been used for what they say its for???...

There was reports yesterday from cameron that Turkey would'nt be
joining for hundreds of years......

WHAT AN UTTER LIE AND A BLATANT ATTEMPT AT DECEIVING THE PUBLIC...

IT'S BEEN CAMERONS ONGOING OBJECTIVE TO GET TURKEY INTO THE EU!!!

As it's his next destination , that is a JOB in Brussels , there's got to be some collaboration with Merkel I would think a sort of get lining things up now . I've always thought he couldn't care how many immigrants came here .

Cameron's claims on Brexit 'risible' say economists



By Szu Ping Chan
22 May 2016 • 8:48pm




David Cameron's claim that prices will jump if Britain leaves the EU is “nonsense” and based on complete guesswork, critics have claimed.

The criticism by former MPs and economists comes as the Prime Minister and Chancellor George Osborne warn today that a vote to leave will push the economy into a year-long recession and “put hundreds of thousands of people out of work right across the country”.

Norman Lamont dismissed claims that a drop in the pound would increase shopping bills and leave Britons with less money in their pockets as “more scaremongering”.

The former Tory Chancellor said the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) was distorting markets and keeping prices artificially high by limiting competition from outside the bloc.

“Of all the scares and alarmism, the suggestion that prices would go up by leaving the EU is the most bizarre,” he said.

“Every one knows that one of the purposes of the EU as founded was to keep the price of food high and the CAP does exactly that. Leaving the EU would cut food prices.”

Treasury analysis shows the food costs for a family of two adults and two children will climb by around £120 a year by 2018 if Britain votes for Brexit, while clothing and footwear prices will rise by around £100.

Patrick Minford, Margaret Thatcher’s former economic adviser also claimed prices would fall if Britain left the “protectionist” EU bloc, while Ruth Lea, economic adviser to the Arbuthnot Banking Group, described the Treasury analysis as “bizarre and risible”.



More: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/05/22/emb-midnight-camerons-claims-on-brexit-risible-say-economists/

I'm reading about a Steve Hilton the PMs closest friend in Politics today . Steve Hilton breaks ranks to say Britain must leave the " arrogant and unaccountable EU . Says a shattering blow to the PM . I dare say we will be told by someone in a minute that he's of no importance at all .

Do I spy Granny,

I'm past caring about your cartoons , you paid by the cartoon . During all this time Freda not one has made any differance .

Some are less sensitive than others.

Take Manuel for instance.

I am trying to read through here but Thicko as usual is posting big childish cartoons .

Steve Hilton is a huge blow to Cameron VIC ,your right , i wonder how he will defend this one .

https://www.politicshome.com/news/europe/eu-policy-agenda/brexit/news/75257/steve-hilton-uk-should-leave-hubristic-european-union

Have you got one for people who hate the English , would that be sensitive .

Well done MaxK .

As far as the comment about Conservatives workers, working hard for an election victory.

I daresay many like me voted tactically, I voted Conservative to ensure a euro referendum, no other reason to vote Conservative for me.

The only draw for people not to vote LIB DEM or UKIP was the undertaking to hold a referendum.

I expect to see a resurgence of LIB DEM and UKIP after the referendum in subsequent elections no matter what the result is.

fwiw

Somebody had to prod Dumbo back into life.

Why?