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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%
Undecided 11 5.05%
Voters: 218. This poll is closed

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Where do the people who want to leave the EU plan to take Britain once they leave?

Would they just tow the island to a slightly warmer climate nearby, perhaps near the Canary Islands, or do they propose to move it all the way to perhaps the Caribbean? Obviously the Med is out, 'cause Britain would not fit through the Straits of Gibraltar.

I have not been following this topic very closely, hence my unfamiliarity with what proposals are on the table.

Michael

The aim & overall objective of the referendum is focused on the whole EU interference, meddling and failure to address serious issues along with reform, the reform proposals had to be agreed by all 27 other EU leaders, with some countries needing the EU gravy train more than the EU needing them.

Personally, and unfortunately I'll wager we'll remain in, the U.K. Has an opportunity to leave & be 'politically independent & self governed' via the forthcoming referendum, our PM's recent attempted negotiations were for diplomatic justifications only & like previous Governments have let the electorate down.

The EU dictatorship exacerbates & avoids reform responsibility and fiscal governance.

We'll still remain EU trading partners and poor scaremongering from some businesses and industries will adjust and continue as its in their best interest.


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The in campaign have the easier task. "All you can eat until Christmas and no foxes" will sell well amongst the occupants of the chicken shed.

These top level business people are all rich enough to buy their way out of the EUs personal restrictions and are in the positions they are because they are used to bending over when their bosses tell them to. The good ones, the real entrepreneurs should be itching to get out in the rest of the world and do their stuff free of petty regulation.

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Stage managed - didn't take long to get 36 companies in line
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The in campaign have the easier task. "All you can eat until Christmas and no foxes" will sell well amongst the occupants of the chicken shed.

These top level business people are all rich enough to buy their way out of the EUs personal restrictions and are in the positions they are because they are used to bending over when their bosses tell them to. The good ones, the real entrepreneurs should be itching to get out in the rest of the world and do their stuff free of petty regulation.

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Boycott Asda and Marks and Spencer is an easy call.
They have been short sighted enough to do the bidding of our PM, whereas other food suppliers have seen fit to stay out of the arguments.

This letter, printed today, is signed off by 1/3 of the UKs' largest corporations which leaves another 2/3 with enough sense to have some level of regard for their customers rather than pander to the government of the day.
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Boycott Asda and Marks and Spencer is an easy call.
They have been short sighted enough to do the bidding of our PM, whereas other food suppliers have seen fit to stay out of the arguments.

This letter, printed today, is signed off by 1/3 of the UKs' largest corporations which leaves another 2/3 with enough sense to have some level of regard for their customers rather than pander to the government of the day.
Funny old thing, but our PM turns out today to talk to a group of O2 employees (who might have been better off at their desks, working).
O2 signed the letter referenced earlier, along with BT as just one more telecomms behemoth.
That's the same O2 that is 100% owned by the Spanish company Telefonica - no FUD factor therein was intended by our PM I guess.
It came over as another of the "safer, stronger, better off" speeches.
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The good ones, the real entrepreneurs should be itching to get out in the rest of the world and do their stuff free of petty regulation.

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Once we get past this initial phase of in-fighting of the political parties (well, one in particular), and the stage-managed letters written to the MSM, then we should get down to some informed discourse in the UK.

e.g.
A feasible model for the future of the UK lies some way between Japan (manufacturing and industrial capability) and Singapore (services).
Forget the fatuous, strawman, comparisons with Norway and Switzerland.
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