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 just voted in the London mayor election, making sure I didn't pick a second choice. It is not difficult to work out how I voted.

New EU border proposals make us less safe
The unelected European Commission yesterday confirmed plans to give Turkey visa-free access to the EU’s passport-free travel area. This will create a free travel zone from the Syrian border right up to the English Channel. Our NHS and public services are already under huge strain, but plans to expand the EU to include countries such as Turkey and Albania with millions of new citizens will only increase that pressure.
The EU refuses to address the root cause of the migration crisis – the EU’s borderless travel area. Brussels’ answer to every crisis is simply ‘more Europe’. Indeed, the Commission said this week that the passport-free Schengen area is ‘one of the greatest achievements of the European Union’.
We disagree. So do security and intelligence experts including the former head of Interpol Ronald K. Noble and the US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who have pointed out that the EU’s open-borders system is allowing terrorists to enter the EU and is a danger to our national security. Even the EU’s own border agency, Frontex, admitted the EU makes us less safe.
It is clear that the safer choice for our national security and our public services is to take back control of our borders and Vote Leave on 23 June.

For those who wish suicide and take the rest of the UK with them!

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Japan's Abe says Brexit would make UK less attractive for Japanese investors
LONDON | BY ESTELLE SHIRBON AND MICHAEL HOLDEN

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe cautioned Britain on Thursday that a vote to leave the European Union in a June 23 referendum would make Britain less attractive for Japanese investors.

"A vote to leave would make the UK less attractive as a destination for Japanese investment," Abe, who leads the world's third largest economy, said through a translator at a news conference with Prime Minister David Cameron.

Abe's intervention in Britain's referendum campaign comes less than two weeks since U.S. President Barack Obama bluntly warned Britain that it would be "in the back of the queue" for a trade deal with the United States if it dropped out of the EU.

While Abe said that EU membership was a matter for the British people, he added that Japanese interests were also at stake in the referendum.

"Japan very clearly would prefer Britain to remain within the EU," Abe said. "Many Japanese companies set up their operations in the UK precisely because the UK is a gateway to the EU."

Abe said about 1,000 Japanese companies operate in the UK employing 140,000 people.

Cameron said Britain benefited more from Japanese investment than from any other country apart from the United States. He said Japan had investments worth a total of 38 billion pounds in Britain.

"Japanese firms see Britain as the gateway to Europe," said Cameron, who called the referendum and is leading the campaign to keep Britain in the club it joined in 1973.

A British exit would unleash volatility in foreign currency, stock and bond markets, undermine post-World War Two European efforts toward integration and raise questions about the 21st Century fate of Britain's $2.9 trillion economy.

"Britain's friends around the world, including Japan, will be watching your decision on June 23 with very close attention," Abe said.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-japan-eu-idUKKCN0XW12C?feedType=nl&feedName=ukdailyinvestor&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=UK%20Technology%20Roundup%202016-05-05&utm_term=UK%20Technology%20Roundup

Well Fred, you will soon know who your true friends are.

hays - goldsmith needs all the votes he can muster as, from here in the provinces, it looks that he ran a pretty pathetic and lacklustre campaign and deserves to lose to sadiq khan

Yes and the gateway to Europe will still be open when we vote to LEAVE, Nothing will change, there will be a free trade agreement negotiated and business and commerce WILL carry on as normal..

You can get up off your knees now.

Forgot you didn't say "Please God".

cynic you want to hope to god that Sadiq Khan does not become Mayor .

i reckon he's a racing certainty ....... we'll all know by tomorrow
can't see that it'll affect me much as i rarely to go to london

I can't believe that's so , surely there must be better than that lot , sounds scary .

What can the Mayor do and not do .

I wonder if they will build a mosque to celebrate his election?

he can cosy up to some left wing extremists for starters and have a cuddle with corbyn

Sounds dangerous to me , what message would that sound out to extremists .

VIC he shares a platform with extremists ,that's a fact.
He also called moderate Muslims uncle tom's .

it would be preferable if the moslem moderate imams actually spoke up
they really are pathetic ...... but then one could level the same accusation at the jewish leaders about the israeli gov'ts treatment of the palestinians in gaza and israel's continued theft of more and more west bank land

I'm beginning to think these EU hierarchy are fanatics and not safe to be left to their own devices , but who's trying to stop them , they don't listen to anyone sane .

The minority looneys have won for now but i feel a shift coming the majority have had enough just look at what's happening in Europe .

There's something very wrong going on here , and they just stand and applaud it these MPs .

You better believe it VIC cause it's happening in front of your eyes , i'll say again Sadiq Khan should absolutely NOT be mayor of London .