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View Poll Results: Should Britain leave the E.U. ?
Yes 109 50.00%
No 46 21.10%
No.. But things MUST change 38 17.43%
I don't care 14 6.42%
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... some of them are hectoring us now about our referendum...
Thanks for the new word.
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You quoted the RSPB
Hands up, I absolutely hate the RSPB with the deepest of hatred and I am out to shoot them down at every opportunity.
YMMV.
I have a bit of a downer on the RSPA also by the way.
PDSA is OK though.

I've just checked the bird feeders outside and all 5 of them are at least half full and doing just fine - only a few pigeons are getting a bit less than the tom tits though.
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So you want "In".......fancy being treated like this ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCHu1kRT6hU
Par for the course of the ECB; the bank we were told to join back in 2003.
That vid leads on to another of just a few minutes duration (posted on youtube 2011) that comes up with Goldman Sachs, yet again:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoJthzxpn7A

Naturally, the current head of the ECB used to work for Goldman Sachs.
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Should Britain leave the E.U. ???

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Got this which four clicks on google......not hard to find info on both sides of the argument, you just have to go looking !!



JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs fund Britain's pro-Europe referendum group - Business Insider

As Wildman said, it's really no good looking to people or groups whom you usually disagree to make a decision on brexit. Not only is it a logical fallacy, the brexit has split right down party lines. For me I'd either be in bed with Murdoch or Cameron, not exactly moral bed fellows.
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After the utter failure of the renegotiations, I'm now pro-Brexit.

All this bollocks about us having a say in Europe was shown to be just what it really is. I think we looked like Oliver twist asking for another bowl of soup and we came away with nothing but words.

It was an event of squabbling, indecision, back stabbing and political tantrums.

I don't want to be part of that circus anymore.

Thing is though Ted, will it look any better if we walk away? For us or for Europe?
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JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs fund Britain's pro-Europe referendum group - Business Insider

Notice you failed to mention that two large hedgefunds are bankrolling the brexit campaign. Talk about cherry picking!
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Spoil sport! I saving that one.
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Cameron doesn't matter, he doesn't have any power. He's just a PR man and a mediator for the people who put him there. The out crowd speak of sovereignty and power as though more than a semblance of democracy exists in the UK. Just look at the smear campaign against Milliband or Corbyn or the two or so million voters for UKIP who got one MP. Thinking that leaving the EU will change this is absurd, it will only make it worse.

The referendum is the product of a decade or two of negative press and EU bashing by the personal press corps of Murdoch, Barcley, Desmond and Rothermere. You think these lot want what's best for the British people or the future of our country?

It's tempting to vote to stay out just to see who the Tory Press corps blame next for immigration, rising cost of living and sharp decline in wages, inequality and all the other evils they've left at the door of the EU, which are in fact just the logical conclusion of pure free market fundamentalism.

Personally I wonder what's the use of a referendum when public opinion is shaped and framed by a handful of people? Will the UK's problems go away by walking away from Europe? Do you really trust men like Boris Johnson, Murdoch or Gove to speak for you? For me the out campaign is about fear and lies not hope.
For a minute I thought you were going to let rip and really tell it how it is.

The post in here of 4 march is worth your consideration.
Vote to Leave the EU
the earlier posts in that blog are also relevant to your distress.
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We should be bloody angry about the way Cameron on the one hand, and ignorant Parliamentary bench stuffers on the other, are stealing our people’s referendum away from ordinary voters. There is nothing grassroots about the campaigns to date. They are all by politicians, for politicians, with the grassroots asked to clap and cheer them in the right places, and get out and do the donkey work with clipboards and leaflets, while the political star turns waltz in and out of TV and radio studios parading their stupidity.”

There is common ground and I will come back to the matter - I've been reading other places, again.
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For a minute I thought you were going to let rip and really tell it how it is.

The post in here of 4 march is worth your consideration.
Vote to Leave the EU
the earlier posts in that blog are also relevant to your distress.
e.g.

We should be bloody angry about the way Cameron on the one hand, and ignorant Parliamentary bench stuffers on the other, are stealing our people’s referendum away from ordinary voters. There is nothing grassroots about the campaigns to date. They are all by politicians, for politicians, with the grassroots asked to clap and cheer them in the right places, and get out and do the donkey work with clipboards and leaflets, while the political star turns waltz in and out of TV and radio studios parading their stupidity.”

There is common ground and I will come back to the matter - I've been reading other places, again.

You're so heavy on the brexit stuff- but why do you believe we should leave? What are your personal reasons for wanting to go? For every pro-brexit article I could shoot back five pro-remain articles. For me there are many facets of the eu, and while I'm pretty disgusted at the treatment of Greece and little doubt corporations, especially the banks, hold way too much influence over it, seems to me that our press, media and political establishment are so far right, anything which is going to counter balance this is for me, a good thing. As I've said already I believe most of the problems laid at the door of the EU are actually problems inherent within neo-liberal economics which has been dogmatically pursued by successive governments since the 1970's and the EU has made a very useful scapegoat.

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You're so heavy on the brexit stuff- but why do you believe we should leave? What are your personal reasons for wanting to go?
I can see that you haven't read the 100+ page report that I posted a few days ago, nor the 33 page report posted more recently.

Right wing, left wing, any old wing means nothing to me personally.

Sure there are many facets to the EU but it is only a part of Europe*, a trading bloc with increasing centralist plans to form it's own single government.
Where the concept of the common market has come from over the past 40 years is not an indication of where it is going in the next 40 years.

I prefer the world wide view of where the UK will stand in the future, rather than the single government of 28, no doubt more in the future, diverse societies.

*A sub-regional entity
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By the way - peering through the fog

Richard North writes succinctly and quite eloquently in reviewing the current build up to the referendum campaign, including aspects of current media output and the various players who have made their pronouncements.
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By any reasonable criteria of thinking mankind we should be trading with, for example, Russia in agriculture alone - but the grand gesture politics of the EU, at the behest of the USA, deem this to be beyond the pale.
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The point of protectionism as the name suggests is to protect your own skills and internal markets. Who to protect depends on the current power base. The leader of the peasants party may sign a deal letting foreign machinery in in exchange for letting agricultural produce out but won't keep his job if the opposite happens.

The EEC as a blanket deal where there was no protectionism was great, except it never really happened, it just became an under the table game of subsidies and regulation.

The EU as a single entity looking outwards does not have the leadership required to sacrifice one industry's protection against anothers external trade. They wont let Russian wheat be traded for German cars because the French farmers will want to burn the lot. If they felt like Europeans the French farmers may just give up and go get jobs at BMW, but it would still hurt.

The UK alone can make these deals because we can't be in the business of anything that needs thousands of acres of land to be efficient. Russian wheat for Insurance and design skills upsets no-one. We let our own motorcycle and ship building industries die to protect our financial markets etc.

If we unfortunately stay in, we have to abandon any thoughts of Britishness and get a hundred million other people to also see themselves as Eurostatesians even when that means getting the ****y end of the stick for the common good. Learning their silly games to trample on fellow members to have the cake and eat it is beneath us. Nice guys finish last though.

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I can see that you haven't read the 100+ page report that I posted a few days ago, nor the 33 page report posted more recently...
How many do you think did?

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... Sure there are many facets to the EU but it is only a part of Europe*...
Representing 68% of Europe as a whole, a market of more than 500 million consumers.

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...Where the concept of the common market has come from over the past 40 years is not an indication of where it is going in the next 40 years...
Where's it going?

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... I prefer the world wide view of where the UK will stand in the future, rather than the single government of 28, no doubt more in the future, diverse societies...
Thanks for that. I'm not certain I agree that societies will become more diverse within Europe but good to hear your perspective rather than have to read your cut & pastes and links.
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