The UK Politics and EU Referendum thread - merged

[doubleup]

There will be no balanced debate available from any source.  Both sides will simply aim at the emotions of the electorate as happened with the Scottish referendum.

QED

"Staying in the EU will make the UK more vulnerable to Paris-style terrorist attacks, Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has told the BBC."

[DaveShoelace]

Boris says lets leave the EU

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-35626621

Be fascinating to see just how much influence ol Bozzer has

@Mods - given that the EU vote is now full steam ahead, maybe we can merge the EU and politics thread?

[TightEnd]

The calculation: if Out wins, Boris becomes PM. If In wins, Tory members make him PM anyway. http://bit.ly/1ovJrwd

[ripple11]

"Leave" is a sea of blue on oddschecker...............what's happening?? 

[TightEnd]

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[TightEnd]

 Boris Johnson Aug 2015 : “Look, we can’t leave Europe..... My ideal world is, we’re there, we’re in the EU, trying to make it better."

[TightEnd]

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[TightEnd]

Gove gave OUT intellectual heft, Boris now giving it popular appeal. This referendum will be a proper contest now http://bit.ly/1OnQNqK

[PokerBroker]

Does Borris take the lead in this campaign?  Is it going to be splintered? 

Seems like Out has attracted the loony fringe with the likes of Borris, Patel, Farage, Galloway.  It will take some doing bringing them all together and to sing off the same hymn sheet. 

I thought both Grayling and Benn were poor this morning on Sunday politics, neither of them making a compelling case for the side of the arguement they were on.  I thought the only winner was the interviewer. 

[TightEnd]

Boris and Patel are hardly the loony fringe. Gove is extremely clever and an astoundingly good justice secretary, he's actually reversed a lot of Grayling.

If leave unites behind Boris they have a shot, but none of the three groups are at all well organised

if frage and galloway keep appearing that shot will be lower than it might be

[PokerBroker]

Boris and Patel are hardly the loony fringe. Gove is extremely clever and an astoundingly good justice secretary, he's actually reversed a lot of Grayling.

If leave unites behind Boris they have a shot, but none of the three groups are at all well organised

if frage and galloway keep appearing that shot will be lower than it might be

I guess it's subjective as to how you view people.  My opinion is Borris and Patel are in with the loons, maybe oddities is a better word to use, both really clever though.   Farage is just devisive though.  His hostility to most things foreign and the way he apportions blame to all the ills of the UK on the EU I find staggerring.  George Galloway, should have been locked up many moons ago. 

I never mentioned Gove, but since you have.  I quite like him.  I think he'd have made a really good Education Secretary as well if instead of going in all guns blazing he's been more consultative with teachers and unions. 

[MintTrav]

Why on Earth have the Politics and EU Referendum threads been merged, just at the point where the Referendum is about to take off? Every other topic posted about will be lost in the mass of EU posts. This is the moment when you would separate the Referendum into its own thread if it didn't already have one.

[MintTrav]

Boris and Patel are hardly the loony fringe.

Patel is close to it. She is fairly crazy. Doesn't she have some nickname of being a modern-day Norman Tebbit or something like that?

[TightEnd]

Cameron offered Boris home secretary / foreign secretary job to try and stop him voting to Leave, says Daily Mail.

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[TightEnd]

Boris, pipe dreams & proxy politics - my independent piece on those strange bedfellows in the Brexit camp

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/theres-so-much-in-fighting-in-the-brexit-camp-heres-the-breakdown-of-where-everybody-really-stands-a6887866.html

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