EU referendum

EU referendum

  • In

    Votes: 503 47.9%
  • Out

    Votes: 547 52.1%

  • Total voters
    1,050
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Interesting. But misleading (at best, arguably just plain wrong), and presumbaly therefore put together by someone with an agenda.

If you earn less than £120k per year then the above is correct. Above £120k (which I think we might all agree we could call "Richest") then it is not. The "Richest" are worse off since they receive no personal allowance (and therefore do not benefit from the increased personal allowance) and the changes to NI mean they are worse off.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies or Chippy boy.
Its a tough one but i think the IFS shades it by about 100%.

Learn to understand the graph, then comeback.
A little hint look up the word Decile.
 
Really? I'm trying to be as detached as I possibly can be because I'm waiting on the Scottish polls before deciding which way to vote but the way I see it is that the remain group are getting most of the air time whilst the leave group are given some chances to react. Maybe I'm watching too much BBC which tends to be biased towards staying.

yeah we've had mail shots from the Out campaign as well as well as people at Piccadilly giving out "Out" leaflets. I've not seen any of that for staying in. Form the remain in stuff i've only seen a few "Scare" stories in the media, although they do pretty much reflect my own view on an exit.
 
Propaganda is all they have.

Maybe you are not doing your own research? There is plenty of information to support a Brexit if you can be bothered to search for it but ultimately it comes down to your political leanings and whether you are a person that likes to feel secure with an autocracy directing things.
The problem I'm seeing is that most people are confused and basically lazy or haven't got the time or the inclination to sort it out for themselves and want to be told how to think. I include myself to a degree in that. I am beginning to recognise that the heart of the issue is with the Common Agricultural Policy because that is where most of the money goes but that is a complicated field in itself. The group that have their eye in are the farmers as they are at the sharp end of the CAP so their opinions and arguments are worth noting. At the moment their forum is in favour of leaving by a good margin. The Government propaganda machine doesn't want to go there (CAP) because it could reflect very badly on staying in. They would rather you remain ignorant of how our money is dished out, to whom, where and for what. The farmers themselves are trying to see through the smoke that clouds any clear vision of EU (agricultural) finance. I could write reams on it but I'd rather leave it to the farmers to argue the toss.
The reality is that there are no clear cut assurances for a secure future whether we stay or go. It will probably come down to a visceral decision in the end. How the nation feels in its gut.
 
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Maybe you are not doing your own research? There is plenty of information to support a Brexit if you can be bothered to search for it but ultimately it comes down to your political leanings and whether you are a person that likes to feel secure with an autocracy directing things.
The problem I'm seeing is that most people are confused and basically lazy or haven't got the time or the inclination to sort it out for themselves and want to be told how to think.
The reality is that there are no clear cut assurances for a secure future whether we stay or go. It will probably come down to a visceral decision in the end. How the nation feels in it gut.

There is no way on earth am i leaving my future and my family's future in the hands of the lunatics currently running this country. Not. a. fuckin. chance.
We have seen how bad they are when the Liberal brake was switched off.
I am fuckin glad that Europe is there to keep these lunatics in check.
 
There is no way on earth am i leaving my future and my family's future in the hands of the lunatics currently running this country. Not. a. fuckin. chance.
We have seen how bad they are when the Liberal brake was switched off.
I am fuckin glad that Europe is there to keep these lunatics in check.

And what happens when some crackpot gets their hands on the EU leadership and you can't vote them out?

You may not like the current UK government but it is temporary and democratically elected.
 
And what happens when some crackpot gets their hands on the EU leadership and you can't vote them out?

You may not like the current UK government but it is temporary and democratically elected.

I'll deal with the closest and biggest threat first and that's them.
I have yet to see anything in Europe as brain dead as these chumps.
Tbh i don't consider FPTP as realistic reflection of a democracy. Yes people vote but millions are ignored or have to vote tactically just because of where they live.
 
And what happens when some crackpot gets their hands on the EU leadership and you can't vote them out?

You may not like the current UK government but it is temporary and democratically elected.
If the EU lurches to the right he'll be asking for a referendum on a EU exit. Oh the irony. Undemocratic organisations are fine if you agree with them apparently.
 
The Institute for Fiscal Studies or Chippy boy.
Its a tough one but i think the IFS shades it by about 100%.

Learn to understand the graph, then comeback.
A little hint look up the word Decile.

Suggest you look up the word "misleading".

I'd love to have a sensible debate with you Ken, since you are clearly a man of principle if not just entirely wrong about almost everything. But unfortunately although I've tried, it always descends into a slanging match. So now I'll just go with the slanging match.

But you are wrong about everything by the way. Your bitterness clouds what little judgement you have.
 
Suggest you look up the word "misleading".

I'd love to have a sensible debate with you Ken, since you are clearly a man of principle if not just entirely wrong about almost everything. But unfortunately although I've tried, it always descends into a slanging match. So now I'll just go with the slanging match.

But you are wrong about everything by the way. Your bitterness clouds what little judgement you have.

Oxford English Dictionary = Misleading "When chippy boy realises he has fucked up and not read the graph correctly then needs to back track".
 
Oxford English Dictionary = Misleading "When chippy boy realises he has fucked up and not read the graph correctly then needs to back track".

You really are a complete waste of air. I said it was misleading in my original post.

Returning you to my ignore list.
 
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Closer than I thought, we need to tighten our borders and stop all these nut Jones from coming to UK. We need to remove all Islamic extremists from UK
 
I'll deal with the closest and biggest threat first and that's them.
I have yet to see anything in Europe as brain dead as these chumps.
Tbh i don't consider FPTP as realistic reflection of a democracy. Yes people vote but millions are ignored or have to vote tactically just because of where they live.

You won't have a chance to deal with the EU threat again though. You get to vote on the UK government again in 4 years but it's been 40 years since we had any say on the EU.

Just because the threat isn't immediate doesn't mean you should cast it out of your mind. It's like swerving to avoid a cat and smashing into an oncoming HGV.

I don't see FPTP as particularly fair either, but the fairest method would have got you an even more right wing blend of Tory and UKIP so that is currently the will of the people.
 
why does it appear from this thread that the "in crowd" have no real argument so resort to name calling and slagging people off? very hard line almost fascist!
 
You won't have a chance to deal with the EU threat again though. You get to vote on the UK government again in 4 years but it's been 40 years since we had any say on the EU.

Just because the threat isn't immediate doesn't mean you should cast it out of your mind. It's like swerving to avoid a cat and smashing into an oncoming HGV.

I don't see FPTP as particularly fair either, but the fairest method would have got you an even more right wing blend of Tory and UKIP so that is currently the will of the people.

How big is your cat? i am sure i could see a HGV behind it. (yes its a shit joke)
Why would we have to leave it 40 years?
It won't be out of my mind, far from it. If we can stay in we are in a position to affect things, out of of it we are not. I am no fan of everything they do but they get far more right than wrong.
That is very true and i would still be moaning but it would be less thing to moan about. If everyone's vote counts you have to take it on the chin.
 
Maybe you are not doing your own research? There is plenty of information to support a Brexit if you can be bothered to search for it but ultimately it comes down to your political leanings and whether you are a person that likes to feel secure with an autocracy directing things.
The problem I'm seeing is that most people are confused and basically lazy or haven't got the time or the inclination to sort it out for themselves and want to be told how to think. I include myself to a degree in that. I am beginning to recognise that the heart of the issue is with the Common Agricultural Policy because that is where most of the money goes but that is a complicated field in itself. The group that have their eye in are the farmers as they are at the sharp end of the CAP so their opinions and arguments are worth noting. At the moment their forum is in favour of leaving by a good margin. The Government propaganda machine doesn't want to go there (CAP) because it could reflect very badly on staying in. They would rather you remain ignorant of how our money is dished out, to whom, where and for what. The farmers themselves are trying to see through the smoke that clouds any clear vision of EU (agricultural) finance. I could write reams on it but I'd rather leave it to the farmers to argue the toss.
The reality is that there are no clear cut assurances for a secure future whether we stay or go. It will probably come down to a visceral decision in the end. How the nation feels in its gut.


The European Union is not an autocracy and if you think some glorious independent blessed Albion will emerge from Brexit, somehow more robust from the buffeting effects of global capitalism and with an independent foreign policy, and that somehow we'll negotiate standalone, super rapid, favourable trade deals (which typically take years) then you're fooling yourself.

I know about the European Union as a trading bloc and a political entity, it makes sense as a trading bloc and it makes sense as a political entity, it makes sense as a military bloc as well but that's a question for another day. There is not one rational argument I've heard for leaving the EU either economic or political and if CAP is your best shot then you've already lost the argument, whether you'll lose the referendum is another matter.
 
I think if a lot of the remain camp saw first hand how their money gets pissed up against the wall in dodgy euro projects they would reconsider. The amount of eu money that has been pocketed by officials is gob smacking, I'm only speaking about Portugal but maybe things are better in Italy, Spain, Greece and the east European countries...

If we had a referendum here I'd vote in but if I was in the uk, Germany , holland I would be out...its just a socialist experiment in redistribution of wealth from north to south/east and soon to the Middle East...anyway guys keep the cash coming it's much appreciated :-)
 
You won't have a chance to deal with the EU threat again though. You get to vote on the UK government again in 4 years but it's been 40 years since we had any say on the EU.

Just because the threat isn't immediate doesn't mean you should cast it out of your mind. It's like swerving to avoid a cat and smashing into an oncoming HGV.

I don't see FPTP as particularly fair either, but the fairest method would have got you an even more right wing blend of Tory and UKIP so that is currently the will of the people.
You clearly don't understand how any of the EU leadership are chosen as all gone from decisions from democratically elected governments . You have a say in the EU just as you do in the uk - you are just a smaller fish in a bigger pond. You don't have that much influence with your vote on your local counciller let alone the UK anyway
 
You clearly don't understand how any of the EU leadership are chosen as all gone from decisions from democratically elected governments . You have a say in the EU just as you do in the uk - you are just a smaller fish in a bigger pond. You don't have that much influence with your vote on your local counciller let alone the UK anyway

Legislation comes from the EU Commission and Commissioners are not elected, they are chosen by the leader (not necessarily government) of each EU member state. I don't call a one-off decision by Cameron democratic given 35k of the UK's 60m people voted for him. I bet the majority of people couldn't name the UK's European Commissioner.
 
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