Should Companies Be Trying To Influence Voters By Email?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-35712537
I see BMW had jumped on the "trade barrier" BS.

[bhg481]

It all depends on whether you think they are trying to influence them or simply letting them know that if there is a Brexit their jobs might be at risk. Look at it the other way round - no email, Brexit, BMW pulls out of UK, people's jobs go, "Why didn't you warn us?"

[Svejk]

You can smell the desperation, tora.

[ToraToraTora]

well this email is full of BS about trade barriers nothing to do with pulling out.

[steg]

It seemed to be OK to do that kind of thing during indyref Scotland, so I don't see why not

[Peter Pedant]

or should we leave it to thinkers like like 3T and YMG ?

Hi 3T have your woggles binzwanged the ya-ya to die ?
that is the rhyming slang you love for " have you had your cornflakes with honey today ? " - [ note to die is east ender for 'today' me little cockney sparra ]

no but seriously - if the fors not independent and the againsts are not independent then the only people who could speak would be the dont-knows...and I suggest that there is something wrong with that analysis

[ToraToraTora]

never heard of it during the SR steg.

[Peter Pedant]

// You can smell the desperation, tora.//

no you can smell the usual schweik BS Tora .....

[ToraToraTora]

The problem is that the only argument with any credibility from the in mob is the trade issue but now that has been shown to be total BS they have nothing left but to try and ridicule. Hence standard anti British/lefty tactics from PP above.

[Svejk]

Blimey, you understand him?

[Svejk]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3473932/Now-Swiss-withdraw-bid-join-EU-Nation-s-parliament-retracts-24-year-old-bid-member-amid-deepening-row-migration.html

[ichkeria]

If anyone should be smelling anything it is the Brexitters the coffee ...

A particularly pungent brand, too

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-35712463
And
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/03/02/putin-weaponizing-migrant-crisis-to-hurt-europe.html

Dreadful word "weaponising"

[Hypognosis]

All arguments along the lines of "in is vital for trade" are tantamount to admission that the EU is a protectionist, non-free-zone.

Meanwhile, issues of "plant yer factory 'ere for a tax break, matey" are being brought to the surface.

Japanese makers are only here because they were *induced* into creating jobs for us by trade barriers. Dagenham workers pushed too hard for wages and the engine plant is moved to Spain.

Business practices are bent into shape by laws but only because corporations don't feel they owe the residents if any particular town or city a living.
No sense of social responsibilty, even if a town has served them faithfully for best part of a century.

@peter-pedant

//binzwanged the ya-ya//

Heh heh. Good name for a band.

[ToraToraTora]

Svejk: Yes I understand PP, he has no mysteries for me.

Ichkeria: That's funny they said the opposite last week!

[Togo]

//If anyone should be smelling anything it is the Brexitters//

We smell it. It isn't coffee though. Its the bullshot pouring out of the scaremongers. The Swiss haven't listened to the weak kneed alarmists have they? Nor should we. Corrupt EUSSR.

[ichkeria]

"Ichkeria: That's funny they said the opposite last week! "

They did, didn't they. Maybe they will change again.
I don't want to risk it ...

[ToraToraTora]

couldn't care less anyway, when they arrive we send them back to France

[Hypognosis]

@ichkeria

Re:- link2

I wonder where niPut and s'Asda got the idea that migration might divide Europe? Reading newspaper comment sections, or something?

[jim360]

It's obvious that a vote to leave the EU is a vote to shake things up and create uncertainty in the short-term. On the other side of that period? Who knows?

Businesses, anyway, are understandably wary of uncertainty where possible, and in that sense I don't think it's unreasonable to send an email along the lines of "if the UK votes to leave the EU then we can't predict what will happen, so stay tuned and be aware that this may well affect your jobs somehow."

Anything too strong would risk politicising an internal business email a little too much -- but on the other hand Brexitters really need to stop crying scaremonger any time someone suggests that there may be negative consequences of leaving the EU. Of *course* it's going to be messy; of *course* the outcome depends on how the EU decides to react to a "no" vote; of *course* no-one can say exactly what will happen, which includes all the BS Brexit seems to want to sell about a ticket to paradise.

[youngmafbog]

More scaremongering from a company that built aircraft engines to bomb us.

[ToraToraTora]

"Businesses, anyway, are understandably wary of uncertainty" - and remaining in the EU gives that certainty does it? PMSL! Gawd knows what lunacy the unelected Eurocrats will come up with next