The EU: In, out, shake it all about.... (144 Viewers)

As of right now, how are thinking of voting? In or out

  • Remain

    Votes: 23 37.1%
  • Leave

    Votes: 35 56.5%
  • Undecided

    Votes: 3 4.8%
  • Not registered or not intention to vote

    Votes: 1 1.6%

  • Total voters
    62
  • Poll closed .

martcov

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ID cards do nothing to limit immigration from the EU. All they do is allow you to track the numbers better (at cost to the UK government / taxpayer). You talk about leave disinformation (and yes there is some of it) but the story you've posted is remain disinformation.

You can see if someone outstayed the 90 days. You can stop people claiming benefits when they are not entitled to claim them after 90 days. You can control Minimum wage more strictly to stop wage undercutting. I cannot understand objections to providing id to claim benefits. If I wanted to get money from a bank account, I would have to have a bank card. We are the only country in the bloc without ID cards and we moan about benefit abuse and think EU citizens are claiming things they aren’t entitled to. So, wreck the economy instead of introducing ID Cards.
 

martcov

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It was sent to every household in the UK, presumably using the electoral roll. Some academic studies show that it did have some impact.
How the government’s pro-remain leaflet shaped the EU referendum | SPERI

That is not targeting. The leave.eu social media campaign targeted people they could influence. They didn’t bother with ones they knew had already made up their minds. Sending everyone a leaflet would get the undecided as well, but it was before the campaign got under way and theses people were hit by micro targeting after that.
 

skybluetony176

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Looks like the DUP are more likely to bring the PM down than the Tory rebels. They abstained from voting with the government last night in a show of strength.
 

martcov

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clint van damme

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Looks like the DUP are more likely to bring the PM down than the Tory rebels. They abstained from voting with the government last night in a show of strength.

some of them actual voted against the government according to Sammy Wilson.
Think they were just trying to give her a warning but she can't keep pushing her proposal and keep the DUP on side.
 

Astute

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I think there is a difference between genuinely believing certain things may happen and talking about them as certain is not ok. This is different to staying things in a way that you know to be untrue
As in what lies came from remain as though there wasn't any?
 

Astute

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That is not targeting. The leave.eu social media campaign targeted people they could influence. They didn’t bother with ones they knew had already made up their minds. Sending everyone a leaflet would get the undecided as well, but it was before the campaign got under way and theses people were hit by micro targeting after that.
Not targeting? It was sent to every home in the UK. It targeted everyone.

I wonder what you would be like if a leave leaflet was posted to every home in the UK.
 

martcov

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Not targeting? It was sent to every home in the UK. It targeted everyone.

I wonder what you would be like if a leave leaflet was posted to every home in the UK.

Posting to every home the same message is not targeting. Targeting is sending the message that pushes the button of someone you know to be undecided or to who fits a category which could be influenced using information harvested from social media. Leaflets are not read by every recipient. As the quoted study says, they are read by certain sub groups. Others who rely on other forms of information won’t bother to read a randomly sent leaflet. Coincidentally, we are now ( 2 days ago ) being asked by a call centre if we receive and read leaflets sent out by Lidl etc.. They are presumably trying to see if it is worth sending leaflets to our area, or whether we just bin them automatically.
 

clint van damme

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dutchman

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What were the specific lies Grendel?
Brexit would prompt stock market and house price crash, says IMF

A vote to leave the EU next month could precipitate a stock market crash and steep fall in house prices, the International Monetary Fund has warned.

Christine Lagarde, the IMF managing director, also backed warnings from the Bank of England governor Mark Carney that Britain could fall into recession following a Brexit vote.

“We have looked at all the scenarios. We have done our homework and we haven’t found anything positive to say about a Brexit vote,” she said.

The IMF said a panic among investors would trigger shockwaves throughout the economy following a vote to leave, sending shares and property prices into downward spiral.
 

martcov

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Brexit would prompt stock market and house price crash, says IMF

A vote to leave the EU next month could precipitate a stock market crash and steep fall in house prices, the International Monetary Fund has warned.

Christine Lagarde, the IMF managing director, also backed warnings from the Bank of England governor Mark Carney that Britain could fall into recession following a Brexit vote.

“We have looked at all the scenarios. We have done our homework and we haven’t found anything positive to say about a Brexit vote,” she said.

The IMF said a panic among investors would trigger shockwaves throughout the economy following a vote to leave, sending shares and property prices into downward spiral.

People are still thinking that if there is a no deal situation.
 

Sky Blue Pete

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Brexit would prompt stock market and house price crash, says IMF

A vote to leave the EU next month could precipitate a stock market crash and steep fall in house prices, the International Monetary Fund has warned.

Christine Lagarde, the IMF managing director, also backed warnings from the Bank of England governor Mark Carney that Britain could fall into recession following a Brexit vote.

“We have looked at all the scenarios. We have done our homework and we haven’t found anything positive to say about a Brexit vote,” she said.

The IMF said a panic among investors would trigger shockwaves throughout the economy following a vote to leave, sending shares and property prices into downward spiral.
Can you really not see that that’s different to a complete fabrication or a wilful misuse of facts?

IMF got it wrong
 

SIR ERNIE

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some of them actual voted against the government according to Sammy Wilson.
Think they were just trying to give her a warning but she can't keep pushing her proposal and keep the DUP on side.

Good on them. She deserves all she gets.
 

Astute

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Can you really not see that that’s different to a complete fabrication or a wilful misuse of facts?

IMF got it wrong
The same people that get it wrong most times. And they are the same people that say we will struggle after leaving the EU. But their past fails get forgotten by those who want to state their latest guesses.

How about those I quoted for you? There was a list of 10 and asked you if you wanted any more.

Yes both sides lied. And told big lies. But some on here concentrate on lies from one side and ignore the other side. And a few have the balls to call me biased when I mention both sides all the time.
 

Astute

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People are still thinking that if there is a no deal situation.
A house price crash would be good overall. Those who can't get on the housing ladder would be able to. But there would be pain for those who have recently bought their first home. I would be happy myself. The only time high house prices benefit homeowners is when they sell and not buy.

Can't see it happening though.
 

Astute

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Grendel

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This line of argument is nonsense. The rhetoric through the whole campaign left no one in any doubt that this would be acted on

You also forget that the main opposition were demanding article 50 was triggered straight away.

Also you forget an election took place afterwards and 84% voted for parties that honoured the result.
 

martcov

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This line of argument is nonsense. The rhetoric through the whole campaign left no one in any doubt that this would be acted on

You also forget that the main opposition were demanding article 50 was triggered straight away.

Also you forget an election took place afterwards and 84% voted for parties that honoured the result.

You also forget that being an advisory referendum it was not subject to the same rules as a binding referendum. This has an effect on what can be done about the cheating by leave.eu. More to come.

You also forget that the election was not primarily about Brexit and that the parties had a much wider manifesto than carrying out the referendum result.

You also forget that May did ask for a strong mandate for the Brexit negotiations and ended up with a minority government.

What you cannot forget is that Brexit has split the country and put us in the mess that we are in today. Thanks Brexit voters.... not.
 

martcov

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Where did it say that the referendum wasn't supposed to take us out of the EU?

If it wasn't supposed to take us out of the EU why did the government spend nearly 10m putting a pro remain leaflet through every home in the UK?

The government put a leaflet out to say that if the country voted for leave it would end up in a disaster. The people voted for leave and it has ended in a disaster. The government was right overall, but not in the details.

Pull the plug and put it back to the people.
 
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martcov

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Doubt that but he's still right.

His, Mogg‘s, organisation, ERG, receives funds from the USA. He has met up with Bannon who is impressed with him. He is a partner/ director of a 9 bn hedge fund heavily invested in emerging markets and not much in post Brexit Britain. He has plenty of motivation to see other countries doing well out of Brexit. All this crap,about globalists, metropolitan elite etc. supposedly being solely remainers is a joke. I am none of those and I don’t get paid by Soros, but I see Brexit for the con that it is. Will you be joining Tommy Robinson on his march against the Great Brexit Betrayal? 01. December, London. Mogg reminds me so much of Lord Snooty in the Beano. Brings back childhood memories.
 

chiefdave

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Where did it say that the referendum wasn't supposed to take us out of the EU?
This line of argument is nonsense. The rhetoric through the whole campaign left no one in any doubt that this would be acted on
You two should join the campaign for a second vote as you're both doing a brilliant job of showing that people didn't actually know what they were voting on.

I'm actually quite shocked. DIdn't realise there was people who were claiming the result was legally binding.

What in the EU Referendum act makes you think that?
 

Grendel

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You two should join the campaign for a second vote as you're both doing a brilliant job of showing that people didn't actually know what they were voting on.

I'm actually quite shocked. DIdn't realise there was people who were claiming the result was legally binding.

What in the EU Referendum act makes you think that?

Why did you not comment on the rest of the post I made?

Also it wasn’t legally binding - it was passed through parliament by an overwhelming majority.

Should another referendum be legally binding - or shall we have a best of three (or 5 if the results the same)

How about a game of rock, paper and scissors to decide the outcome.
 

chiefdave

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Why did you not comment on the rest of the post I made?
Because they were irrelevant to the discussion and factually incorrect as I hadn't forgotten either of those things. However neither has any relevance over the content of the act.
Also it wasn’t legally binding - it was passed through parliament by an overwhelming majority.
You've responded to a comment linking Astute, at his request, to documents showing it wasn't legally binding saying 'nonsense'.
 

Grendel

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Because they were irrelevant to the discussion and factually incorrect as I hadn't forgotten either of those things. However neither has any relevance over the content of the act.

You've responded to a comment linking Astute, at his request, to documents showing it wasn't legally binding saying 'nonsense'.

You do realise our constitution makes all referendums require a Parliament act and a vote so all are advisory.

Can you quote me what the leaflet said about the result of the referendum?
 

chiefdave

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You do realise our constitution makes all referendums require a Parliament act and a vote so all are advisory.
You can have a post-legislative referendum as we had on the parliamentary voting system.
Can you quote me what the leaflet said about the result of the referendum?
Are you being deliberately obtuse? You've said yourself the referendum was not legally binding so why are you still arguing that it was?

You can make all the arguments you like about will of the people, elections after the referendum, what was in a leaflet or anything else, many of which I would agree with but it doesn't change the very simple fact that the referendum was not legally binding.
 

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