Is The ‘Remain’ Campaign Influencing Anyone?

[naomi24]

David Cameron leads the ‘Remainers’ and so, as Prime Minister, gets his voice heard in the media every single day, but how many placards have you seen urging people to vote ‘Remain’?

Here, where I live, I’ve seen none at all. Plenty of ‘Leave’ posters, many of them erected in farmers’ fields alongside main roads, but not one for ‘Remain’. Strange.

[jourdain2]

Are you sure the SW is massively 'In' DTC. OH's family are in Devon and are all 'outers'.

[lindapalmara]

Last poll I saw gave Leave a narrow lead!

[DTCwordfan]

probably an on-line poll - which are hugely bias given their reader population. Suggest looking at telephone polls.....

Linda, how do you explain the odds of the bookies? And let's not have this inane cynicism that Osborne and his cronies are loading the bets...that's such a puerile approach.

[DTCwordfan]

not much change from yesterday.

http://www.oddschecker.com/politics/british-politics/eu-referendum/referendum-on-eu-membership-result

Dream on.

[tonyav]

It comes after bookies across the UK began shortening odds on Britain to vote leave. At the time of writing, Ladbrokes had a remain vote priced at 2/5, with a leave vote at 2/1.



http://www.expressandstar.com/news/politics/2016/06/13/eu-referendum-500k-in-bets-put-on-in-west-midlands-with-one-punter-betting-20k-on-leave/

[EDDIE51]

Plenty of 'Remain' posters near me but very few 'Leave'.
There was a group of 'Leave' supporters in the town center on Saturday . They arrived at 9am but left at 11 am after finding virtually no support.
I know one of the group well, but he told me ''We realised we are wasting our time'' so we are going home early.

[DTCwordfan]

the only group down here, as we are enormous beneficiaries, are the fishermen and, electorally, they are diddly squat, a bit like a Boris verbal fart.

[jourdain2]

I never have understood the ins-and-outs of betting, tony-av, but is that a sort of 50/50 or very near? I put £20 on at 4/1 against Brexit some weeks ago and I remain hopeful that a bottle of champagne and a very good dinner may be the result. ............. Apart from freedom and the destruction of Western Civilisation as we know it, of course.

[tonyav]

50/50 would be evens, jourdain.

[sandyRoe]

Surely Gordon Brown's timely intervention must have swayed many thousands of undecided voters.

[jourdain2]

Yes, he came in like a bulldozer and put another few thousand backs up! I heard him, he was dreadful.

[tonyav]

On BBC Radio 4's Today programme he said: "I believe that in Britain we have managed migration. It's not uncontrolled migration."


LOL, good old Gordon still has funny as ever.


http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/labour-step-up-campaign-to-seize-initiative-on-referendum/ar-AAgYlhL

[Togo]

//the only group down here, as we are enormous beneficiaries, are the fishermen and, electorally, they are diddly squat,//

dt means the people who built and sustained the County before they were sold out to the EU pyramid scheme. Without the EU, the Cornish fishing industry is worth £billions, jobs, and a future for the young men and women of Cornwall and Devon without having to tout themselves for the "tourist" gawpers. The infrastructure required to build and maintain a British fishing fleet is a guarantee that the young people of the South West can continue to live and flourish in the lands that their ancestors made. dt is from the North West I believe, he certainly wouldn't be on the harbour in Looe calling the locals diddly squat.

[agchristie]

> Surely Gordon Brown's timely intervention must have swayed many thousands of undecided voters.

He didn't help to sway voters at the General Election when he entered centre stage near the end. Why would he in particular sway thousands of 'undecideds' Sandy?

[naomi24]

DTC and Eddie, careful. Spinning can make you dizzy....

[DTCwordfan]

Togo, I am sure you will retract that derogatory reference when you learn that I am 50:50 North-West and Cornish. Secondly, fishing has only made up a minisicule percentage of our GDP, the largesse of that having long been tourism, even in your cited example of the likes of Looe. I suggest that you swat up on your 'Names of ....' pub game before we meet in an appropriate hostelry as Looe would be well down the list, more deserving causes probably in something like 20 towns ahead of your suggestion. Cheers to a pint of Rattler, - by the way, the 3rd largest tourist site in Cornwall now.

[DTCwordfan]

Fishing made up 0.07% of the UK GDP in 2013 and for the record out of the 720 million value of landings, 36 million were Cornish - that counts as diddly squat in most books and, of that 36 mill, the largesse would have been Newlyn by a country mile.

[Togo]

// fishing has only made up a minisicule percentage of our GDP,//

When you say Gross Domestic Product I take it that you mean the whole of the UK. The fishing industry in Cornwall is much more worth than you miniscule description, or the Spanish and French factory trawlers are wasting their time.

//Togo, I am sure you will retract that derogatory reference when you learn that I am 50:50 North-West and Cornish.//

Well I was only half wrong, as opposed to being so wrong. My post was based on your reflection of growing up in the N.West.
Find me a pint of Doom Bar or Tribute (which I actually had on Friday last at the Rhos Ffynach locally). Haha dt didn't mean to Rattle(r) your cage.(^_*)

[DTCwordfan]

It's miniscue, Togo, total GVA (less than GDP as the costs of production are stripped out), Cornwall made 6.3 bln in 2013....so fishing, on the basis of landed value, made up a small drop in the proverbial economic sea. We are really all about tourism.