General Discussion
Erm, what makes the conspiracy theorist nutjobs assume that extending the deadline is only going to enable Remain voters to register? It could just as easily work in favour of the Abandon campaign.
@burneside So what you meant to write was that you disagreed with a few of the points being made. That's not quite same as "a lot of it being utter bilge".
@burneside Which lot of it is "utter bilge" please.
I've just read this on Facebook: Immigration has been in the news a lot lately, especially with the EU referendum coming up. So let's use the tools and data of political science to understand the topic better. Last year, 270,000 EU citizens immigrated to the UK, and 85,000 returned to the EU. So EU net migration was around 185,000 (1). Additionally, a similar number came ...
@FB I understand the rules very clearly, and it's all about financial fair play. Why should you receive benefits from taxpayers if you're unable to run your business without a clearly defined business plan that demonstrates that you're at least aiming to make a profit? Seems like commonsense to me, and not before time. Its not about proving whether or not you're self-employed, but ...
And here was me thinking,, obviously naively, that the new UK rules brought in last year ( 2015 ) were about ensuring that benefits in the form of Working Tax Credits were only given to those who were genuinely self employed. You know, to stop those that were claiming that they are but in fact aren't.
Haven't these rules been in place for over a year now? Anyway, I'd have thought that you'd have been well up for a tightening of the rules to cut down on the number of benefits cheats out there? Red tape tying businesses up in knots - we wouldn't get that if we left the EU... Oh.
It makes me sick to the stomach that people are trying to score xenophobic political points from the sacrifice that brave people like my grandfather made all those years ago. Totally sickening.
"Och aye. I dinnae ken wither tae vote in or oot." If Trump, Johnson, Gove, Duncan-Smith, Farage and Burneside all think we should vote out, then it's obvious which way any sensible person should cast their vote. In my opinion.
That's the way to do it. Careful though Gary, else you'll be falsely accused by the gruesome twosome of vile and vicious postings.
