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- 03 Feb 2016 10:00
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....
grannyboy
- 17 Apr 2016 09:20
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Ho yes and let me put fred right again...
It's not only Tory voters who want to LEAVE the EU, there's Labour, Greens, and others..
cynic
- 17 Apr 2016 10:19
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the result will be "in" though i shall not support that
corbyn wouldn't have a hope in hell of changing anything of any value in uk's favour, any more than did cameron
as i have written b4, eu legislature has no interest whatsoever in any meaningful changes, let alone root and branch reform which is actually what is required
to be honest, the whole fundamental voting process within eu ligislature needs to be shredded and rewritten, and you all know the odds against the required unanimous vote for that!
grannyboy
- 17 Apr 2016 12:11
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cynic its NOT on the EU agenda, or even the EU project DOSN'T allow for any diversion from their aims..
Fred1new
- 17 Apr 2016 12:53
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Granny,
To be as certain as you seem to believe, of your "opinion" being correct, is either an achievement, or more likely a delusion.
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Time will tell!
cynic
- 17 Apr 2016 17:27
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bollocks fred
what evidence, however flimsy, do you have to support the view that eu legislature has any interest whatsoever in any sort of change, let alone root and branch?
Fred1new
- 17 Apr 2016 18:28
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?
It has been in constant change since its conception.
(Evolution.)
grannyboy
- 17 Apr 2016 18:44
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The creators of the EU project knew from the begining
where they wanted to go, they gave the impression that it
was a trading concept between European countries, but behind
closed doors they propagated the ideology of an eventual political
entity and they knew it would take a number of years to achieve
anywhere near total political control.
They've not finished yet, until total fiscal, monetary and most
importantly political union has completed.
cynic
- 17 Apr 2016 20:02
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GB - not sure from where you c+p'ed that, but cannot disagree
fred - as GB writes, that is the only evolution in which the eu legislature is interested .... other than filling its bank accounts to morbid obesity
Fred1new
- 17 Apr 2016 21:08
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What is your BMI?
Stan
- 17 Apr 2016 23:58
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Don't confuse him Fred, Alf probably thinks BMI is an airline -):
grannyboy
- 18 Apr 2016 07:56
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I see pinky & perky were up late last night...Posting from
under their quilts while their mummy and daddy thought
they were fast asleep dreaming of another week at school...
Fred1new
- 18 Apr 2016 09:15
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Fred1new
- 18 Apr 2016 09:21
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Believe me, I am a member of the con artist party!
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36070761
George Osborne: EU exit would make UK 'permanently
"UK would be "permanently poorer" outside the European Union, Chancellor George Osborne has warned ahead of the in-out vote on membership on 23 June.
A Treasury analysis on the cost of an EU exit will say UK national income could be 6% smaller - the equivalent of £4,300 a year per household - by 2030.
Mr Osborne said the report, being published on Monday, "steps away from the rhetoric" and sets out the facts.
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Mr Osborne defended the report's findings on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, saying: "The conclusions could not be clearer. Britain would be permanently poorer if we left the EU to the tune of £4,300 for every household in the country. That's a fact everyone should think about "
The chancellor said "it would be the poorest" who would be most affected by an EU exit, citing people whose jobs "depend" on the car plants and the steel making factories.
"They are the people whose incomes would go down, whose house prices would fall whose job prospects would weaken, they are the people who always suffer when the country takes an economic wrong turn," he said.
He added: "If you look at the evidence and what the rest of the world is telling Britain and they are very, very clear: we would be permanently poorer outside the EU, let alone the short-term economic shock."
VICTIM
- 18 Apr 2016 09:29
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So you are using someone you despise to support your stay in stance Freda , when it suits you .
Fred1new
- 18 Apr 2016 09:38
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Every little bit helps.
Even from a party of "Ne'er Do Wells" and "sycophants".
Claret Dragon
- 18 Apr 2016 10:03
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The Fear Gauge now enterıng the Red Zone.
Personally, I would rather be a small, well run, productıve, effıcıent and innovatıve country. Utopıa I know. Cant see how that aspıratıon can occur ın EU as ıt stands wıthout any other changes that wıll be forth comıng ın the future form Brussels.
grannyboy
- 18 Apr 2016 10:09
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Where fred gets his 'me,me, me, anology baffles me????...
As most Brexiters believe that LEAVING is anything but selfless.
Being part the EU IS ALL about being selfish and who don't believe
in DEMOCRACY, and being ruled by a dictatorship and in the process
costing us BILLIONS of POUNDS.
grannyboy
- 18 Apr 2016 10:14
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Osborne's claims are just has far fetched has his claims that UK debt would be brought under control in his continued justification of cutting benefits for the disabled.
He's being wrong on a number of occasion's..And has he's stated in his latest Pro EU diatribe.. 'COULD BE' it 'could' also be up 6% or even more..
jimmy b
- 18 Apr 2016 10:24
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Did anyone see this dick on Andrew Marr, Emmanuel Macron ,threatening all sorts if we leave .
I really didn't like this guy.
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Britain would be 'killed' in trade talks if it left EU, says French minister
Major powers such as China would have little interest in negotiating with the UK outside the EU, claims Emmanuel Macron
Britain would be “completely killed” in global trade negotiations if it voted to leave the EU because it would be reduced to the status of Jersey and Guernsey, the French economy minister, Emmanuel Macron, has said.
As David Davis said David Cameron should be stripped of his right to negotiate a British exit in the event of a vote to leave, Macron warned that major powers such as China would have little interest in negotiating with the UK outside the EU.
Macron, appearing on BBC1’s Andrew Marr Show to highlight the new political grouping he has established in France, raised Tata’s decision to abandon its UK steel operations to illustrate the dangers of a British exit. This includes selling off its Port Talbot steel plant, the UK’s largest, which employs 4,000 workers.
Macron said Britain would have an even weaker hand in its negotiations with China, which is blamed for the crisis in the British steel industry after dumping cheap produce in Europe, if it were not part of a 500 million-strong trading block.
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Macron said: “Your decision to be taken is much more about your role in globalisation. I think UK is not about becoming Jersey or Guernsey. Today, you are strong because you are part of the EU. When you discuss your steel industry with China you are credible because you are part of the EU, not because you are just UK. You will be completely killed otherwise.
“You will never be in the situation to negotiate face to face with the Chinese because your domestic market is not relevant for the Chinese in comparison with their domestic market. EU is the first global domestic market.”
Macron’s argument highlights a key argument of the remain campaign. This is that Britain is able to secure stronger trading deals as a member of the EU, with a population of 500 million, rather than as a single nation of 63 million. Trade policy is negotiated at an EU level.
He spoke out as David Davis said Cameron could remain as prime minister after a vote to leave the EU but would have to hand the breakup negotiations with Brussels to a minister who had supported a British exit. In a sign of how the prime minister’s personal future could become an issue during the referendum campaign, Davis took issue with the former chancellor Kenneth Clarke, who said Cameron would be out of No 10 within 30 seconds if Britain left the EU.