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Register To Vote: Government To Trigger ‘Emergency’ Law To Extend Deadline By 48 Hours The deadline to apply to register is now midnight tomorrow (June 9).

I went along Warren Road this morning. Thank goodness I was in a car and not on foot. The stench by the sewage works was awful.

Thank you for posting that MV. The points raised in it need getting out to the electorate URGENTLY!!!

7 Jun 2016

@FB - you'll be telling me next that they control the overseas banks and stock markets 'n all.

Vote Leave’s newsletter today (and most days) says, ‘ We send £350 million a week to the EU – enough to build a new hospital every week’, and the claim features in the campaign’s election video , released online. However, despite their making this central to their case for Brexit, it’s not actually true. The £350 million figure is based on an annual figure of £18 billion paid by the UK ...

@GT - Yes, hasn't the pound been falling because the market is getting wobbly about there being a Brexit vote?

@FB: So.........if we vote out does that mean No more illegal immigrants? No more single parents? No more people (of whatever age) having blue badges when they shouldn't? No more politicians who may indulge in 'creative accounting'? Really?

According to OBR forecasts , in the next five years the UK’s average net contribution will be around £9.6 billion per year while the average annual rebate should be around £5 billion. To get a sense of the magnitude of those numbers we can say that in 2014-15 UK public spending was £735 billion . The total EU public expenditure in the same year was around £118 billion meaning that the ...

June 6th 1944
7 Jun 2016

NATO includes the US and Canada. It is a military organisation The EU has European* countries only. It is more of a economic and political organisation. * cue postings about Turkey.

6 Jun 2016

I thought the reason the EU (as it is now) originally come into being was to prevent a repeat of European countries going to war with each other.