LTB 324/16 - EU Referendum Campaign

blakeyboy · Post by **blakeyboy** » 23 May 2016, 18:00

Is that all you can reply spelling police.Time to take our country back BREXIT!!!!

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 23 May 2016, 18:04

blakeyboy wrote:Is that all you can reply spelling police.Time to take our country back BREXIT!!!!

Sorry, I wasn't trying to be a Grammar Nazi, it just tickled me because of the photoshopped Britain First banner that has been doing the rounds.

viking1488 · Post by **viking1488** » 23 May 2016, 18:10

TrueBlueTerrier wrote:
viking1488 wrote:its time to vote out of the EU its time to take are country back
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well well sorry about the spelling mistake but im still voting out the union should not be telling there members how to vote on this i will go back and changed my mistake but you cant change to fact most working class people want out of the EU

geordieboy123 · Post by **geordieboy123** » 23 May 2016, 18:52

blakeyboy wrote:Well Britain currently are paying 18 billion a year for Euro membership of which we get a 5 billion rebate thus meaning that's 13 billion a year we will save from not being in the eu which over a few years will clear national debt it's not rocket science

Oh dear, our future is in the hands of people like you, inform us of the economical model of a UK after brexit? Have you considered what would happen if we cannot get the same or better trade deals with the eu?

Do you really believe that the employment laws that protect us that cannot be changed if we stay in will not be done away with after Brexit? the Tory MP's who want to leave have all said in the past that these laws hold our economy back.

What will happen to the financial markets in the two year period we will have to make new trade deals with all the uncertainty?

I look forward to your response

blakeyboy · Post by **blakeyboy** » 23 May 2016, 19:40

Well if we don't leave we will never find out will we.We cannot be held to ransom by the eu it's time to get our country back

viking1488 · Post by **viking1488** » 23 May 2016, 19:42

blakeyboy wrote:Well if we don't leave we will never find out will we.We cannot be held to ransom by the eu it's time to get our country back

fishtank · Post by **fishtank** » 23 May 2016, 20:06

blakeyboy wrote:Well if we don't leave we will never find out will we.We cannot be held to ransom by the eu it's time to get our country back

Think about what makes it your country, who you think you're taking it back from and what would change after leaving the EU.
And the figures you quote about EU membership costs and rebates are so far off the mark they're laughable, show me the source.

viking1488 · Post by **viking1488** » 23 May 2016, 20:18

Britain is the fifth largest economy in the world, the fourth military power, a leading member of the G7 and one of five permanent seat-holders on the UN Security Council. I think we might just about scrape by when we leave the EU and brussels wont be making 75% of are laws its time for change even today france are taking about a referendum on leaving the EU a lot of countries are watching what happens here it might start a domino effect and the EU will fall apart in my eyes thats a good thing

fishtank · Post by **fishtank** » 23 May 2016, 20:40

Britain isn't even a country, if you want to talk about geopolitics at least get the geo part right first.

blakeyboy · Post by **blakeyboy** » 23 May 2016, 20:42

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parforthewalk · Post by **parforthewalk** » 23 May 2016, 20:47

Time for a Poll perhaps?

1. In
2. Out
3. Undecided

geordieboy123 · Post by **geordieboy123** » 23 May 2016, 20:48

blakeyboy wrote:Well if we don't leave we will never find out will we.We cannot be held to ransom by the eu it's time to get our country back

I rest my case

Post by **POSTMAN** » 23 May 2016, 20:50

The way forward-Pay & Mod-BT2010-AFG014...
Thanks for your recommendations over the years CWU, my mind is now made up!

oypostie · Post by **oypostie** » 24 May 2016, 15:07

Ah. Playing politics again. Any chance the union could focus on the problems their members are facing on a daily basis for once

Tman · Post by **Tman** » 24 May 2016, 15:32

And the figures you quote about EU membership costs and rebates are so far off the mark they're laughable, show me the source.

The Remain followers (whether that's you I don't know) always counter the "look how much money we send to Brussels every year" argument with the counter argument of "where do you get those figures from, it's not as much as that", completely obscuring the point that the UK is well down on the financial deal, and whether it's by 20-30-100 £million is a detail.
Currently the UK sends money, and some comes back in the way of grants etc, but as the people who decide where that money goes are unaccountable, there's no guarantee that in the future (especially with some dirt-poor countries about to join) some little Eurocrat won't make the case for the UK getting much less rebate simply on the case that our GDP is probably 100 X that of some piece of worthless Eastern European marshland, and they need it much more.
Don't bother replying with the naïve "Britain has a veto" cobblers as it's clear deals will be done and arms twisted to ensure no-one stands the way of the mighty (but failing) Federation of Europe project.
It would have been interesting to see what would have developed had the Far Right gained another 0.5% of the vote and got into power in Austria. Clearly it's not just UK voters who are becoming unhappy with the EU status quo. Troubles ahead....