Off Topic Politics Thread

http://news.sky.com/story/1645947/your-eu-referendum-survival-guide

Think you may need this
The voting thing is the same in the UK Parliament. A bell rings if they have to vote because they can't agree something in the chamber. All the MP's vote, usually on party lines, so I assume this may have been something similar.
Part of the deal DC got is removing the ever closer union part so if we stayed there won't be anymore of that. Even if the MP's want to it is already in law that they have to have another referendum if they want to give away more powers. So we could all say no. Scotland is a strange case. The SNP don't want to be part of the UK but do want to be in Europe. Either way it's not really independence.

 

I'm another "I don't know" and don't particularly care how any politician votes because they've each got their own agenda. Like St Badger (and others) I'd like impartial facts and figures, not emotional rhetoric. What worries me is that so many people will vote as they think being out of Europe will keep those useless foreign Johnies off our shores and that will be their only reason.

Can I also say, as a pretty new member, that this is one of the most sensible, mature forums to be a part of. OK, there have been sulks, there have been slight upsets but what I like is that people here are willing to apologise if someone gets upset, are supportive during sad times and make me laugh on a daily basis, so thank you

 

Hmm, reasonable as it may look, all the debunking examples are teased out from the Remain side. Now I wonder why SKY did it that way?

Oh, I know. They're not un-biased.

 

What? how can you say such a thing about these erudite gentlemen and ladies?

 

Big companies scared a UK out of the EU will raise their taxes? I like how the opt in said 50% of companies want to stay in, yet only came out with about 20. One was Virgin.... their owner has escaped tax for years.

 

Just awful

 

If Skinner had said it to Cameron you would all have laughed. As, incidentally, would I.

Vin

 

The reaction by the people on the benches is funnier then the remark.

 

To be honest, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have. Cheap comments like those in the video are not becoming of any politician, certainly not of Dennis Skinner.

 

My initial leaning to exit the EU has been somewhat tempered by the company I'd be keeping (Ukip, Boris, the mad bloke who lives a few doors up from me).

My wife is voting to stay in, so we're likely to cancel each other out.

 

When you're undecided and scratching around for inspiration, that could be an important motivator.

 

This is why I am not going to vote because of who is in each camp. If I was going to do that I wouldn't vote at all.

 

I wish you luck in that. Even though one would like to think one is independently minded, it's amazing what subtle influences encroach.

 

Don't forget George Galloway or is that the mad bloke a few doors from you?

 

BBC Headline:
"EU exit would risk jobs, says group of business bosses"

36 businesses signed the letter arguing the above point, 64 did not.

Businesses in FTSE100

 

I'm trying hard to forget George Galloway, mainly 'cos I have this picture in my head of him in a cat suit.

I think the bloke in our street is just a general 'outer'. If you had a vote on leaving the human race he'd be there, voting out while shouting about his human rights. He has a flag pole in his garden up which various flags have been raised over the years, latest is the Dorset flag (grotty yellow with a white/red cross). I have actually seen people cross the road when he approaches

 

How about this one from the good old BBC?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-32810887

 

Yes, we can rely on the BBC for impartial news!

 

I quite agree. I don't agree with all of Corbyn's politics, but he has remained fairly dignified throughout and I respect that. There is no place in the modern world for a political house which resembles a naughty classroom. Disgraceful.