EU Membership rest of Europe referendum

I live in the EU but outside the UK and want to leave the union

  • YES

    Votes: 1 14.3%

  • NO

    Votes: 6 85.7%
  • Total voters
    7
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Warbler

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As promised, if anyone wants to declare their citizenship and provide us with a general mood of the nation type of synopsis, (issues, likes, dislikes etc) I'm sure that would be interesting
 
"I live in the EU bust... " Yeah, and I eat my lunch in the company brassiere, and drink in the local cocktail bra...

For goodness sake, Warbs! Your poll's going tits-up before it's even started, man!
 
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au contraire

All I'm seeking to do is plug into different national sentiments, and see if the British exhibit a pecuiliar antipathy. We have plenty of Irish contributors, and the ROI have undoubtedly been beneficiaries of subsidy for decades. I would expect them to be much more positively disposed towards Europe thus. We also have a few French contributors (who loaded the rules in their favour) a couple Germans, and a well posted Spaniard who although he seems to exhibit a dislike for centralsied planning can't escape from the fact that the EU more than any other body has dragged Spain from a semi agrarian comparatively backward European country into the modern world
 
I'm sure she was, alas I can't see my own typos even when they are screeming out from the page (rather worryingly though the S is no where near the U or T on a keyboard) although I've long had a habit of typing soundalike words instead of the one I wanted. It's a real problem actually, as spell checkers never pick them up, and I frequently fail to spot them on proof reads. Alas I have caused some really quite serious misunderstandings before now by giving out completely incaccurate instructions or opinions. I'm more prone to doing it with certain words more than others, but Bust is a new one on me.

She'll be pleased to learn I have since adjusted it!!!
 
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If it makes you feel better - we use 'prn' as shorthand for 'when required' where I work - it often becomes 'porn' by mistake!
 
I voted 'no'. Living in Scotland is like living outside (or 'outwith' as we say up here...) the UK.

While there's a lot of beaurocratic nonsense going on, I reckon Europe is a far better place for the existence of the union. For a start, there's much less chance of one European member ever invading or attacking another.
 
Interesting results starting to come in at this early stage:)

I believe it was Churchill who once said that "if faced with the choice, the British would always look to the sea".

The non UK vote (alright it's only 5 people, and one of those transpires to be Scottish - and espite requests not to, has voted in both polls) are so far unanimous, where as the UK only poll is much more sceptical, though not too far removed from its 1973 levels (I wonder if Thatcher's still got that pullover she wore during the campaign?)

I see the first anti vote has gone in from outside the UK though
 
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DO - your vote has to be disqualled - you may feel you live outside the UK, but your country is still very much a part of it. I'm sure the Welsh feel they live outside the UK, too, as do many of us think that of the Welsh - or even the Cornish, come to that, but however much they might put up their road signs first in Welsh, in big type, and then in English in small type, neither Wales or Scotland would survive for a nanosecond if the separatists had their way.
 
The part of the Uk that has the most pronounced sense of "otherness" is

London


When i travel around, i find theres more similarities between the celtic fringe and the provinces (love that word lol), than with the great metropolis

im for staying in the EU. The CAP is a disgrace and so is some of the leaden euro bureaucracy, but the uniform market still has strong benefits
 
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