And Merkel and her cronies couldn’t see this coming? She’ll be next and it will be her fault, she’s allowed the door for the extreme right wing to be opened as she didn’t listen, again the EU project is to plow on ahead without listening.
Theresa May.
For the EU. Against the European Court of Human Rights. Using the exceptional cases of Muslim clerics to prove the rule.
Originally posted by @Barry-Sanchez
The US thinks we have more influence than we actually have in reality.
Or likely pretends to when it benefits themselves to do so. 
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This leave campaign is bang in the zeitgeist.
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Sky News have conducted a poll suggesting that the Obama visit has hurt Remain’s cause.
http://news.sky.com/story/1684878/sky-poll-obamas-eu-warning-counterproductive
A Daily Mail article. Hating myself right now.
Brusselsofficials are secretly plotting to haul Britain before the EU courts - just weeks before theBrexit vote- for charging foreign lorries to drive on UK roads.
The government introduced a levy of up to £10 a day two years ago to ‘level the playing field’ for British truck drivers who have to pay tolls on the continent.
Even though British hauliers also have to pay the charge, the EU will claim it unfairly penalises foreigners as its launch was paired with a reduction in road tax for UK lorries.
Two great reasons to leave the EU… It was 3 but I do not agree with the 3rd one.
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decide our own laws: currently the EU passes 75% of new laws in the UK. On each of the past 55 times British Government has voted against new EU laws foreign politicians have imposed on us anyway. This shows we have lost control over our own law-making to politicians in other countries and the only way to get it back is to leave the EU.
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more money to spend at home: We pay £55m a day to the EU. In 2014/15 the net cost was almost £12bn. This money is desperately needed in the UK to help fund essential public expenditure and lower taxes, instead of paying for EU bureaucrats and politicians and spending in other countries.
Originally posted by @pap
A Daily Mail article. Hating myself right now.
Brusselsofficials are secretly plotting to haul Britain before the EU courts - just weeks before theBrexit vote- for charging foreign lorries to drive on UK roads.
The government introduced a levy of up to £10 a day two years ago to ‘level the playing field’ for British truck drivers who have to pay tolls on the continent.
Even though British hauliers also have to pay the charge, the EU will claim it unfairly penalises foreigners as its launch was paired with a reduction in road tax for UK lorries.
Shouldn’t believe everything you read in there 
So, they interviewed 1051 _ Sky _ customers? So this poll is essentially meaningless then.
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those two figures seem to rise with every week that passes.
Stewart’s video is about the ECHR, not the EU. I recommend the video and human rights. Separate organisations though. Brexit won’t affect ECHR and Theresa May is trying to take us out of ECHR anyway.
Indeed, but I feel there are similar principles at play - the challenge with the EU is that are probably limited things we can say where Britain HAS led and created a legacy for the whole of the EU… and that is it Briatin’s shame IMHO, as had we embraced it form teh outset, we find that as a concept a lot easier…
Britain has led a lot of EU reform, but unfortunately most of it has been about relaxing rules to allow more neoliberal policies.
We were never going to have the same relationship with the EU as other people on the continent, and we’re far from alone in displaying a degree of Euroscepticism. Us having the referendum has got less to do with a lack of love for the EU, and more to do with the unique pressure that Cameron was under.
It was an election pledge he could not break. A large section of his own party would have eviscerated him for it if he had tried getting away without one.
France, one of the founding members, is hugely Eurosceptic at the moment, but a degree of it exists across the continent. They’re just not being asked.
See this is what I struggle with as it seem to me this is through choice rather than anything else…
We are far from being the most Eurosceptic nation within this undemocratic enterprise, try Portugal or Greece, parts or Spain, Denmark or Poland, the EU doesn’t listen to its people, its a project of vanity for some and a huge business opportunity for a few others, both are elites.
The EU will fail regardless of this vote, I want to be there when it fails.
It’s geographical. We’re an island nation, and the only border we have is on a different island. Historically it has been a huge advantage, but you shouldn’t mistake that for us not looking outward or welcoming newcomers. It does affect our mentality toward the continent, though. Paxman wrote a bit about it in his book The English.
Not quite sure I understand the mentality of those that like to see failure as opposed to success… that wallow in it…
Because that failure is success in the long term ambitions of the people that want out of this archaic crap, that failure means we can make our own laws and be more accountable to our electorate, the EU’s failure is the UK’s opportunity.
This is the most useful thing I’ve read about the referendum. I didn’t realise leaving the EU would lead to our tax being cut. I have now decided to vote Leave and look forward to having my tax cut.