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....

Shake it all about.

EU referendum: Angela Merkel warns Britain 'you will never get results you want if you leave EU'





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Boris Johnson: EU elites have hit the panic button


Commenting on the interventions by EU leaders into the UK's referendum debate, Boris Johnson said: "The EU's elites have hit the panic button.

"The Foreign Office is now desperately wheeling out foreign leaders to threaten the British people with retaliation if they dare to Vote Leave and take back control.



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/02/eu-referendum-union-boss-calls-on-jeremy-corbyn-to-be-braver-and/

That outburst by Murkle should do the trick...fat cow, who does she think she's threatening?

She isn't threatened.


You are feeling threatened.

Perhaps it is just paranoia manifesting itself.

Merkel is clearly in a panic. She had said that she wouldn't speak on the matter. Now the out campaign has caught up and may be ahead soon her true feelings are revealed. It will be a big blow to the EU if we leave. There are several countries who want a similar referendum and there is increasing support for one in Germany. The UK leaving the EU may destabilise the whole thing. If the out campaign gets well ahead you can expect a series of concessions for the UK being offered.

Go back through the history of the EC and EU and its conception and development.

I think it was the UK begging to get into the union, not the other way around.

The UK is a gnat's bite in "size" compared with the EU.

Losing the UK will be an irritation to the "mainland" and that is about all.

max 2630 lol !!

That will help us, Merkel threatening , just the ticket , the woman who opened the doors to Europe to all and sundry without asking anyone else .If it pissed the British public off when Obama stuck his nose in then you would have thought Cameron would have told her to stay away.
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Fred ,,,The UK is a gnat's bite in "size" compared with the EU.

That is just what you think of Britain ,we are a financial powerhouse ,we can still be a great nation but not in your eyes , why don't you F**k off and live somewhere else .

Some gnat. The UK contributes almost 20% of the total EU GDP.

If the vote goes 52/48 here's what might well happen:

If we're a gnat - then do the right thing and squash us then

Vote brexit

Fred talking rubbish AGAIN (2633)...We joined a COMMON MARKET, a trading bloc..

NOT a political entity..Supposedly!

Failure to deport the equivalent of a "small town" of foreign criminals could lead the public to question why Britain should remain in the EU, a committee has warned.

MPs said it was "deeply concerning" and that urgent action must be taken after a report revealed that 5,789 offenders from overseas were free in the UK - the highest number since 2012.

The Home Affairs Committee said urgent action must be taken to "significantly" reduce the number of offenders in the UK - both in detention and in the community - said to be over 13,000 or the "size of a small town".

But Home Secretary Theresa May said the government removed a "record number" of foreign national offenders last year.

A report found that the top three countries offenders came from were all within the EU with Poles accounting for nearly one in 10 foreign offenders, a total of 983.

Some 764 were from Ireland and 635 from Romania.

MPs criticised the Home Office for failing to remove convicts despite their home nations being part of the 28-member bloc and warned it undermined the public's faith in EU membership.

"The clear inefficiencies demonstrated by this process will lead the public to question the point of the UK remaining a member of the EU," the report said.
Despite repeated warnings, the Home Office is still unable to remove foreign offenders from the UK.

We agree with the Prime Minister that the Home Office should have done better. There are still over 13,000 foreign national offenders in the country, who could fill towns the size of Louth in Lincolnshire, Beccles in Suffolk or Berwick-upon-Tweed in Northumberland, and almost 6,000 of these are living within communities.

The public would expect our membership of the European Union to make it easier to deport European offenders, but this is clearly not the case, and we continue to keep thousands of these criminals at great and unnecessary expense. These failures are undermining confidence in the UK's immigration system and in the UK's EU membership.

– COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN KEITH VAZ
The committee criticised Mrs May for being "unconvincing in suggesting that remaining a member of the EU will make it easier to remove these individuals from the UK".

It also warned it would take a "modern miracle" for David Cameron to meet his pledge to cut migration to under 100,000.

Well at least the audience at the Sky grilling with Cameron wasn't
hand picked like the BBC ones are..

And it was a killer when Faizel the sky interviewer asked cameron
what would come first, WW3 or economic collapse..

That was a very silly moment and did not help the discussion. The other stupid thing was the very rude girl studying English Literature.

Rude perhaps but not stupid. All politicians want to steer the discussion into areas they feel comfortable and avoid the issues that they feel vulnerable. If you have to be rude in order to hold their feet to the fire, so be it.

People have had enough of his crap Haystack ,i don't know why you defend him so much ,i voted for him but now realise he is a lying idiot.

Rude and stupid. She made a big thing of being a student and knew what waffling was. Firstly she is a student and not as yet qualified in anything. Secondly she goes to Southampton Solent University, not the University of Southampton. She goes to a university that will take you with a grade D in English. One of the pretend universities that used to be Technical Colleges, that turn out people who won't get jobs. If you are over 21 you can get in without any A levels.

You and your everyone is stupid that didn't go to grammar school. Her education has nothing to do with it. Sure she was a bit clumsy in the way she framed her question but she shook Cameron out of his comfort zone. Job done. She made him sweat, something your nemesis Corbyn has never done.

It has nothing to do with grammar schools. She made so much of being an English student. However, it is at a low grade metropolitan university with almost non existant entry requirements. That is not the same as saying her status qualified to indentify waffle. In fact her status qualifies her to do just about nothing.

Well she made DC uncomfortable with her question. so not bad for someone you label as stupid.
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