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....

i shall post very bitchily below about the brotherhood switzerland clearly shares with the other eu member states
and yes, hilary likes to think of herself as an eu citizen, though she's certainly very happy to be a uk tax exile as a swiss resident - switzerland of course being outside eu and merely a member of efta

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A Swiss village, one of the wealthiest in Europe, has refused to take in its government imposed quota of asylum seekers, voting to pay a fine of £200,000 instead.
The residents of Oberwil-Lieli, where there are 300 millionaires among a population of 2,200, voted “no” in a referendum over whether to accept just 10 refugees.

And the residents of the multi-million pound residential development in K&C which was going to be used to house Grenfell tower victims were welcoming of their new neighbours with open arms?

no, but they did and one must assume that the grenfell "refugees" are now comfortably ensconced there

Because they didn't have much choice in the matter. The residents of Oberwil-Lieli did have a choice, and they exercised their rights. And so they should.

I wouldn't expect to buy a house and have a bunch of asylum seekers move in next door, and I suggest that anybody who pretends they think differently is telling porkies.

oh i see; not like your brothers in eu then?
seems to me that have very cleverly "bought" yourself the best of both worlds as an irish/switzer
are you not being just a tad hypocritical or even sanctimonious?

Btw, I'm not an EU citizen - I'm a British citizen, and intend to remain so. An Irish EU passport is probably going to be very useful in a couple of years time. And the residency thing? Well that's just a no-brainer.

Schengen

Little Britain

are you not being just a tad hypocritical or even sanctimonious?

I thought I'd been very careful not to disclose how I felt about Brexit. Are you reading something between the lines that I never wrote?

heaven forfend!
to be honest, i thought your feelings on brexit had been broadcast pretty loud and clear
i hope you are not also one of those who'ld campaign for a 2nd referendum primarily because you did not like the result of the first

So you did add 2 plus 2 and got 5.

I asked a couple of questions, tried to get some sensible answers, and I'm accused of being a Remoaner??!!?? Seriously, I voted because I had a vote, but I couldn't care less whether you stay or leave the EU because I took steps some time back to mitigate my position.

As things go (and I never thought I'd say this), but I'm inclined to side with Fred and Stan. :o)

whatever
i merely asked you a question
personally, i would never ever want to live in switzerland, despite its welcoming of uk tax asylum seekers

personally, i would never ever want to live in switzerland

Phew. That's a relief.

hilly, you are a remoaner, no doubt!

Still, that's your position and you are free to argue it.


What you are not fee to do, is negate it: It was a free vote, and you lost..get over it!

hilly, you are a remoaner, no doubt!

Somebody else who has trouble understanding English. What part of 'I asked a couple of questions, tried to get some sensible answers, and I'm accused of being a Remoaner' exactly was too difficult for you to understand?

What you are not fee to do, is negate it. you lost..get over it

Well, given that I exited the UK before this mess happened, I'm not the one who needs to negate it exactly, and I'm not entirely sure what it is that I'm supposed to have lost. But, for someone who 'won', how is it that your glorious leader, Maggie May, seems to be making such a fcuk up of something so simple?

Just curious, I'm sure you'll understand.

hils your post earlier about not wanting to buy a house and then have a bunch of asylum seekers move in next door .... isn't that what happens already in the UK but you can also add a bunch of free loading EU citizens / criminals into the mix too.

I knew you felt the same way as us really :-)

As for 74% of 18-24 voting in then talking to my kids mates and the youngsters at the pub that's probably about the same reaction I got but the big problem was most of those I talked to didn't bother vote.

Best guess is maybe 25% of them voted if that.

Max,

You say the "remoaners" have lost. Ummmm.

But tell me exactly what have the Brexiters won.

To vote for something, which hasn't been specified and little knowledge of possible consequences of, strikes me as close to insanity or stupidity.

The Brexiters when they voted behaved like kids being offered sweets out of a bag in the dark.

Ie. optimistic suckers.

Like going to the chemist with a headache and grabbing and swallowing the first pill they can see off the shelf and left wondering why they are spending the rest of the week S------ themselves.

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Dil,

The comment about the house....

I'm pretty confident that the main reason asylum seekers and other illegal immigrants go to the UK en masse is because they think they'll be given a home and benefits which they can't get elsewhere. In France you can't claim benefits of any kind, or access their healthcare system, until you've contributed into the system for 4 years. They congregate in Calais because they know they'll get something in the UK.

Martini said previously that he wanted an accountable UK government. Well you've already got an accountable UK government. Why haven't they changed the law previously to stop giving the handouts so freely? And why not build a detention centre in the Hebrides for illegals and asylum seekers (that's what happens in Australia)?

Surely, with no prospect of work, no prospect of a home and benefits, and the risk of being detained in the backend of nowhere would be a deterrent? You don't need to leave the EU for that.

Which leads me on to the eastern European part of the question...

I thought that UK border control did do criminal record checks on EU residents. And as for eastern European benefits tourism, a change in the UK law along the lines above would prevent that. What you can't do, however, is stop EU citizens going to the UK to work and pay taxes.

Dil,

Regarding the low turnout of 18-24 year olds....

I read somewhere that the turnout was thought to be 36%. The margin of 'victory' for leave over remain was 1.2m votes. Had the youngsters turned out to vote at the same levels as they did in this year's general election, and assuming the 74% figure of those voting to remain is correct, and was extrapolated, then the remain camp would have won.

Fred,

But tell me exactly what have the Brexiters won.

A 20% weaker currency, higher inflation (that outstrips earnings), and a more expensive weekly shopping basket together with more expensive holidays to countries with clean air that they don't want to visit any more. :)