EU referendum

[Dia bando]

Look at norway, they're not in the EU and they're fine...

Is that place full of Norwegians.

[Britkid]

The EU is the only way to even slightly control the Tories. There are some terrible people putting the case for membership, but I think it is important to hold your nose and vote in, because it is likely turnout will be low (on the evidence of the 75 campaign).

[Master]

The EU is the only way to even slightly control the Tories. There are some terrible people putting the case for membership, but I think it is important to hold your nose and vote in, because it is likely turnout will be low (on the evidence of the 75 campaign).

I think defeated Cameron will cause him to resign.

[Dia bando]

The EU is the only way to even slightly control the Tories. There are some terrible people putting the case for membership, but I think it is important to hold your nose and vote in, because it is likely turnout will be low (on the evidence of the 75 campaign).

I think defeated Cameron will cause him to resign.

You could be right but HE will only be replaced by one more ass hole, we will lose a lot if we come out
of the EU I don't agree with some of there policy's but the EU are protecting workers rights,

[Master]

The EU is the only way to even slightly control the Tories. There are some terrible people putting the case for membership, but I think it is important to hold your nose and vote in, because it is likely turnout will be low (on the evidence of the 75 campaign).

I think defeated Cameron will cause him to resign.

You could be right but HE will only be replaced by one more ass hole, we will lose a lot if we come out
of the EU I don't agree with some of there policy's but the EU are protecting workers rights,

Multinationals not paying their taxes and Tories eroding union rights tell me different.

[Kirkland Laing]

The EU is the only way to even slightly control the Tories. There are some terrible people putting the case for membership, but I think it is important to hold your nose and vote in, because it is likely turnout will be low (on the evidence of the 75 campaign).

I think defeated Cameron will cause him to resign.

You could be right but HE will only be replaced by one more ass hole, we will lose a lot if we come out
of the EU I don't agree with some of there policy's but the EU are protecting workers rights,

No they are not. All Merkel talks about is "labour market reform", which is a euphemism for cutting wages and pensions, making it easier to lay workers off and so on. The EU is owned by corporations and once they eventually form a full union it'll basically be a corporate superstate. Look at all the corruption that has already been exposed in Brussels. That's just the tip of the iceberg.

If we do stay in we're going to eventually have a common army, immigration policy, budget and government.

ἔξω.

[Kirkland Laing]

https://www.google.com/search?q=merk...utf-8&oe=utf-8

Try merkel greece labour market reform. Swap spain then portugal for greece etc etc.

[Master]

Ian Duncun Smith, who I have been very impressed with, has left the government over the way they are hitting the most vulnerable in our society with the benefit cuts.

Is he genuine or just trying to screw Cameron?

Cameron attempts to heal Tory rifts over IDS resignation - BBC News

[Master]

British football could be radically changed if the UK votes to leave the European Union, according to experts and leading voices in the game.

Some fear so-called Brexit could lead to more than 400 players losing the right to play in the UK, while others say it may give home talent a chance.

The UK will decide if it wants to stay in the EU in a referendum on 23 June.

"Leaving the EU will have a much bigger effect on football than people think," said football agent Rachel Anderson.

"We're talking about half of the Premier League needing work permits.

"The short-term impact would be huge but you could argue it will help in the long term as it could force clubs to concentrate on home-grown talent."

Some Leave campaigners, such as Brian Monteith of Leave.eu, argue that a post-Brexit UK could lower freedom-of-movement restrictions on the rest of the world which would "broaden the talent pool, not reduce it".

Players with an EU passport are currently free to play in the UK. Those without must meet Home Office criteria, the most important being that they are established internationals for leading nations.

Analysis of squads in the first two tiers in England and the Scottish Premiership has revealed a total of 332 players would fail to meet the current standards.

More than 100 Premier League players would be affected with Aston Villa, Newcastle United and Watford facing losing 11 players from their squads, while Championship side Charlton Athletic would need to find 13 replacements.

In fact, only 23 of the 180 non-British EU players currently playing in the Championship would get work permits - and most of those are former internationals from Ireland or Commonwealth nations with British passports.

Remarkably, none of the 53 non-British EU players in the Scottish Premiership would qualify for a permit on the basis of their international career alone.

That is the same situation for 63 non-British EU players in League One and 46 in League Two.

[Master]

In 2015 the UK government paid £13 billion to the EU budget, and EU spending on the UK was £4.5 billion. So the UK’s ‘net contribution’ was estimated at about £8.5 billion.

[Master]

Who’d have thought it? Jeremy Corbyn could shape Britain’s destiny in Europe

It’s a fair bet that never, ever did the British establishment imagine that one day it would be resting its hopes on Jeremy Corbyn. For years the likes of David Cameron, George Osborne, the governor of the Bank of England, the heads of most FTSE companies and the masters of the City of London – to say nothing of Peter Mandelson and the entire New Labour aristocracy – would either have mocked Corbyn or struggled to place his name.

But now they’re relying on him. On Thursday, the campaign for Britain to remain in the European Union exhaled collectively, relieved as the Labour leader weighed in at last – declaring himself to be in tune with the rest of his party, which, as he put it, is “overwhelmingly for staying in”. The relief was intense because, without Labour voters, the referendum on 23 June is lost.

With the campaign officially launched yesterday, and polls showing the contest too close to call, the numbers could not be starker. By one estimate, remain needs 6 million Tories and up to 9 million votes from Labour supporters and others if Britain is to stay in the EU. And that’s presuming a general election-style turnout, when each party brings out its support more or less evenly. The great fear is of differential turnout, with outers more motivated than inners – so that while too many of the latter stay home the former stampede for the door marked “Brexit”.

The related anxiety is that the differential will be generational. The old vote. The young? Not so much. Younger voters are pro-EU, but that won’t matter if they sit out the referendum and let the old take the decision for them. One senior remain figure notes that 23 June coincides with Glastonbury: “That could be 150,000 of our voters too busy getting stoned in Somerset to turn up.”

[Master]

I like Obama but he should shut up as he is leaving anyway.

The UK could take up to 10 years to negotiate trade deals with the US if it leaves the EU, Barack Obama has said.

In a BBC interview, the US president said: "It could be five years from now, 10 years from now before we were able to actually get something done."

Britain would also have less influence globally if it left, he added.

His warning over trade has angered UK campaigners for leaving the EU - with UKIP leader Nigel Farage dismissing Mr Obama's comments as "utter tosh".

Post-Brexit trade deal with US could take 10 years, Obama warns - BBC News

[Britkid]

The EU is the only way to even slightly control the Tories. There are some terrible people putting the case for membership, but I think it is important to hold your nose and vote in, because it is likely turnout will be low (on the evidence of the 75 campaign).

I think defeated Cameron will cause him to resign.

Yes, that is an unsaid given. And it will mean a Johnson or Patel will be in prime position to take over.

[Master]

Boris is in the no camp, his dad is in the yes one. I hate them all.

[X]

Whatever the general consensus is amongst you lot ....... I will do the opposite