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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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So if you between 25 and 64 you don't exist? As this group are the real income earners I wonder what that result would show?...
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... You can make numbers show its mathematically possible for an elephant in stilettos to balance on a golf ball, but reality is somewhat different.
Are you suggesting that the polling data, remembering that this was a poll of polls, is somehow trying to represent a particular view?

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The European Army.
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Dodgy David Cameron who has repeatedly made it clear that the United Kingdom will never be a part of the European Union Army was once again caught in a lie as a military exercise taking place on Salisbury Plain at this very moment involves the second Battalion, the Yorkshire Regiment and the fourth infantry brigade with the flag of the “EU Battle Group” emblazoned on their vehicles.



European Union Battle Groups are composed of three 1500 rapid response a team of troops, directed by the EU Council of Ministers, and is designed to respond to security crises.


The Council of Ministers is the unelected executive of the EU.
A European Army is in the future of the EU. The EU's long term policy is to displace the US dominated NATO but has not had the structures or funds to do so to date.
A German Government white paper outlines steps to gradually co-ordinate Europe’s patchwork of national militaries and embark on permanent co-operation under common structures. The paper was originally scheduled to be published earlier this year but its' controversial contents caused it to be delayed until after the referendum lest it gave ammunition for the cause of BREXIT.
At the European level, the paper calls for “the use of all possibilities” available under EU treaties to establish deep co-operation between willing member states, create a joint civil-military headquarters for EU operations, a council of defence ministers, and better co-ordinate the production and sharing of military equipment.


When the remainiacs led by Cameron et al claim that Britain is safer and more secure with our European Allies, those of us with longer memories will recall Mitterrand of France refusing to recall French technicians from Argentina who were fusing exocet missiles for that country which went on to sink HMS Sheffield and the Atlantic Conveyor killing may British servicemen and merchant marine and damaging the chances of victory and also Belgium who halted the export of artillery shells and small arms ammunition to the UK during that conflict and at our time of most need.
The recent vote in Parliament not to go to war in Syria can, in the future be overruled by the EU Council who under the Lisbon Treaty, will have supremacy over national Parliaments.

If you want British troops only under democratic, British command and for a safer UK there is only one option: Vote Leave
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Maybe they are on Salisbury plain in preparation for the vote next month?

Anyway, I can't imagine anyone would want to put their life on the line for that blue flag; no bodies repatriated to the UK were ever draped in the flag of NATO.
It does make quite a good aiming point though.
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Uncertain investors withdraw billions from Europe
Some US investors are looking at the Europe and thinking its a basket case
A lot of investors have cut exposure to Europe during the year. There are political concerns, political risks in Spain and Portugal and weakening data.
Investors are leaving because they are tired of low growth
Poor economic figures that suggest a eurozone recession is a possibility on top of rising brexit fears

Extracts taken from The Times

More reason to leave

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Uncertain investors withdraw billions from Europe
Some US investors are looking at the Europe and thinking its a basket case
A lot of investors have cut exposure to Europe during the year. There are political concerns, political risks in Spain and Portugal and weakening data.
Investors are leaving because they are tired of low growth
Poor economic figures that suggest a eurozone recession is a possibility on top of rising brexit fears

Extracts taken from The Times

More reason to leave

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...except for here in the UK where today where it was shown that Britain attracted record levels of foreign direct investment last year, research shows.

More than a thousand FDI projects landed in the Britain last year, according to EY’s annual attractiveness survey.


This is the largest number of projects secured since records began two decades ago. The survey showed that the UK was the leading recipient of FDI in 2015, with a fifth of all European projects heading to Britain last year, putting it ahead of Germany, France and Spain.


ha ha - project fear hasn't worked on the people with the money - again Dodgy Dave has been caught in a lie.
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