EU referendum

EU referendum

  • In

    Votes: 503 47.9%
  • Out

    Votes: 547 52.1%

  • Total voters
    1,050
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I am banned from the teachers thread for telling a ditty! Otherwise you would have had your response.
You could have your own thread or respond anywhere you like :-) . I didn't even know you could be thread banned . Banned from every school in the UK maybe but given some of the posts on the Cellar I am not sure you were even 10% of the way to a ban.
 
Bluemoon has previous for this and bucking the trend doesn't necessarily make us wrong. We did that at the last election as well when the rwnj called it here for a tory win and just like this thread several vociferous posters just wouldn't have it and kept banging on about polls and the right wing being deluded etc. I think the polls are not really showing the growing resentment towards the EU and I actually think Cameron and the inners have badly misjudged the mood of the voters.
It is just growing resentment full stop, resentment that has been growing for 3 decades. The EU going away will mean the resentment will start turning in on itself and it will be the regions of the U.K., the poor etc who will face the full force of it. It's sad that what was once a society is now increasingly a bunch of different groups looking for people to blame. As decline continues the out voters will probably face a lot of the resentment.

Britain's decline is a century or more in the making and none of the long term decline, demographic challenges or anything else will change with exit. It's just exit will mean there is really no one else left to blame (that's once the Welsh scots and Irish have been binned and the poorer areas of England have stopped being subsidised)
 
This seems to be the case with most people you ask. I'm certainly not going to infer that means there will be a definite out vote,
maybe the same sort are responding more vociferously than quiet inners,the general polls either show the in vote slightly ahead,
but a day or two later the opposite is true.
It probably reflects which circles you move in and where you are as to what people think. But to be honest if I got approached by an outer I would probably agree and humour them as I wouldn't want anyone frothing at me or going on about immigrants, or any of the usual Things that come up.
 
As a point of note: Thanks to Bluemoon and this thread in particular, I decided the time had come. For the first time in my 55 years on this planet I decided to get actively involved in a political debate.

So I contacted the VoteLeave campaign and got a "Stall Pack" and set up a stall in Port Talbot which is relatively local to me. I was quite concerned about how this arguement would be received in South Wales which is a very unionised area and full of local Labour supporters. Bear in mind the majority of TU's and the Labour Party are backing the remain campaign.

I could not believe the response we had. I promise you there is no exaggeration here.

1. Over 85% of the people spoken to were all for leaving and they held very strong opinion.

2. A further 10% were genuinely undecided which included a couple of people who did not wish to disclose their views

3. Only 5% said I want to stay in.

There was nothing scientific about this survey, it was a normal Saturday morning in an everyday town centre, albeit a relatively poverty stricken place.

The feelings were strong and they meant it. Given that the people they believe in and follow faithfully (TU's and the Labour Party) I was amazed. I would have thought in these circumstances this would have been a town wher there was tough opinion on both sides.

I do wonder whether the Government has read the public mood on this correctly.

Still, it was one part (2 hours) of one day in one town.... and as the saying goes "one swallow does not make a summer"

Thought I'd share this to add to the debate....

Do the same thing with a 'Stay In' stall pack next Saturday and let us know how you get on.
 
It probably reflects which circles you move in and where you are as to what people think. But to be honest if I got approached by an outer I would probably agree and humour them as I wouldn't want anyone frothing at me or going on about immigrants, or any of the usual Things that come up.
Yes, you may be right. Although if you think that 'Not going on about immigrants' is helpful to the in camp, you know little about the general populace.
It was one of the biggest topics raised by people responding to doorknockers of both main parties during the election, and UKIP secured over 4 million votes
because of it.
 
Yes, you may be right. Although if you think that 'Not going on about immigrants' is helpful to the in camp, you know little about the general populace.
It was one of the biggest topics raised by people responding to doorknockers of both main parties during the election, and UKIP secured over 4 million votes
because of it.
I think it's time there was a lot of honesty about immigrants, their greater productivity, the fact they are brought in as it is the only thing growing the economy , that the money they bring in to the economy helps supports what's left of the aged pension etc

There are downsides too but the big problem with immigration is that the Tory and labour governments who have used it to stay afloat for decades have never sought to say why or spell the positives out. Which leaves a debate open to misinformation and blame but the consequences of stopping it could actually have the very consequences that the anti immigrant people think are caused by immigration.
 
Cameron teaming up with that Welsh windbag Kinnock, (who has benefited from the EU to the tune of a goodly few quid,along with half
his family), together with Paddy Ashdown have been hitting the phones like trainees at a call centre, contacting the general public and attempting
to persuade us to stay.
Probably the biggest boost for Brexit yet, let us know if you get a call.
Oh, Kinnock certainly has ridden that gravy train!
 
And his wife
His son
Practically anyone in his family is on the gravy train
Leeches everyone of them
Why, has worked his arse off for 50 years for the country more like, if he's a leech them there are tens of millions in the UK have made their money from far less worthy pursuits
.

Typical comment made without having a scoobie
 
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