ChatterBank1 min ago
56% Of Britons Want To Stay In The Eu!!
...with just 36% saying they want out.
Why do you think this is?
Could it be that the rise of UKIP has actually galvanised the waverers?
Could this be the real voice of the 'silent majority'?
With the rise and evident popularity of UKIP, these figures make absolutely no sense...!
Anyone got an idea?
Because I for one am flummoxed
(...and admittedly, quietly/childishly giggling to myself in anticipation of the forthcoming answers).
Reuters link:
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Why do you think this is?
Could it be that the rise of UKIP has actually galvanised the waverers?
Could this be the real voice of the 'silent majority'?
With the rise and evident popularity of UKIP, these figures make absolutely no sense...!
Anyone got an idea?
Because I for one am flummoxed
(...and admittedly, quietly/childishly giggling to myself in anticipation of the forthcoming answers).
Reuters link:
http://
Answers
Considering that the right wing gutter press have been campaigning against the EU for decades the poll result is quite surprising and has restored my oft lagging confidence in the intellect of the British public. Perhaps the gutter press readers are only interested in celeboobs and nipslips and don't actually read the papers that they buy
22:18 Wed 22nd Oct 2014
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I wonder if that figure will change since the incoming president of the EU, Jean-Claude Juncker, has rejected out of hand any attempt by David Cameron to destroy the fundamental rules of the EU on the free movement of people?
The British public don't like being told what they can or cannot do, or at least they once did.
The British public don't like being told what they can or cannot do, or at least they once did.
I think the Brits like a good moan, they enjoy bewailing things and threatening anyone or anything that changes things or tells them they have to do things a certain way, so they do that about the EU. That's all fine and Dandy the majority know full well that we ought not to actually act on that moaning, it would be foolhardy, ridiculous and unsafe to do so, so when they see the lunatic fringes of UKIP whipping folk up into a frenzy of go it alone stupidity, they finally stop moaning and actually think logically and thus 56% of us are quite happy as members of the EU because to be otherwise is financial and social suicide.
Absolutely to stay in the EU. I have family in Germany and a Macedonian person who has married into us though and so I think because we own property here and in Germany and work is also between the two it's a natural option for us, however I don't subscribe to the 'there's an immigrant the sky is falling!' feeling that some people have anyway.
