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Leaving the EU?

It feels like a done deal to me. Everyone I know is voting leave.

Apart from me!

AndTakeYourPenguinWithYou
Nobody will vote leave. Lots will say they will, but they won't. Too scared.

Total rubbish, I will be voting Out as will the majority of people i know and what the hell is there to be scared about?

I think Out will succeed by a small majority or very much hope so.

Up until a few weeks ago I really didn't know which way to vote as I agree with bits of each side. I've decided to vote to leave, based mostly on the fact that if the referendum was to ask if we wanted to join the EU, I would vote no.

thetartofasguard (great name, by the way), I suspect that many won't be quite SE pragmatic. Many who wouldn't vote to join will vote to stay in due to fear of change.

I'm going to vote to leave. A part of it for me is that I think deciding to remain would give Brussels what it would view as a blessing to meddle even more and speed up the move towards an "ever closer union".

@the poster who mentioned Cameron. He's made it absolutely clear he wants to remain and always has. Maybe he regrets pledging the referendum but it's great he's honoured it despite his obvious misgivings.

I'm very concerned because I think you're right, OP. Wouldn't be at all surprised if we voted to leave, though I would be very disappointed.

I am voting out but I think the UK will stay in. The out-voters are good at shouting about immigrants and fishing quotas and the size of cucumbers and vacuum-cleaner engines, but on the day they will end up not voting because the footy will be on, or they will have forgot "it was today", or they were too pi$$ed, or they did not realise you actually have to be on the electoral register to vote, or they couldn't be @rsed to find out where their polling station was, or they got scared at the prospect of going in somewhere where potentially not everyone would be dressed in tracky bottoms and some might even wear ties, etc., etc. The rest of the 'no' voters won't suffice to tip the balance.

Total rubbish, I will be voting Out as will the majority of people i know and what the hell is there to be scared about?

If you don't know what there is to be scared about, you really haven't though through your choice?

How about the fact that you will suddenly become a lot less of an attractive prospect to do business with than everywhere else in Europe?

It'll be better for the rest of Europe if you vote out, but it will be muh worse for you!

The problem with "remembering the UK before the EU" is that, the U.K. has been involved with Europe since 1973. Since then industry has all but disappeared. We make nothing, we are not a major player in terms of exports. The U.K. you are remembering no longer exists and to vote to leave the EU based on your rose tinted memories is extremely foolish.

Penguin you are so, so wrong. I'm voting to leave and so is every single other person I know.

I don't know anyone Close to me voting to stay. It's going to be close I reckon.

Penguin you are so, so wrong. I'm voting to leave and so is every single other person I know

They say they are. But will they really? I doubt it.

It's going to be a landslide to stay.

Seriously, if you have Donald Trump on your side, surely you know you've picked the wrong horse?

Penguin Your comparison to Trump doesn't hold any basis. Trump is now the last man standing for a candidacy in his party. How can that be the wrong horse? Granted the odds might have been low but now we know how can he possibly be an indicator of something going south?
Unless of course you're speaking morally and ethically in which case Trump is a charlatan and a dirty racist bastard!

Yes. Yes they will.

Obviously your opinion is the only valid one, people with the opposing view must just be lying.

I'm voting to remain, no doubt at all. Also, I do not know one person voting to leave.

I'll be voting to stay in, so is DP. A lot of fb friends seem to want out though.

Penguin Your comparison to Trump doesn't hold any basis. Trump is now the last man standing for a candidacy in his party. How can that be the wrong horse

I made no comparison to Trump. I said he is on your side (Leave) thereby you know it to be the wrong move. Anything he is in favour of is clearly a Bad Idea.
Do read comments before arguing against them! I hope you've a better grasp of the reasons for voting than it would appear from this.....

Penguin How fantastically PA. I think I'll just get my mood board out that morning and use it to decide - a sprinkle of garlic on my breasts with a chicken leg wrapped around my neck should facilitate the magic.

I hope the bookies are right that we'll stay in. If we leave, the rest of the EU will be very resentful and do everything possible to make life difficult for us.

Nonline The only explanation anyone ever gives is immigration, but there is so much more to consider.

^ This.

Everyone I know is voting to stay. But then they think/feel that to do anything else would be racist, because the "out" campaign focusses on immigration.

Not really PA. Slightly A, maybe. But you read the post completely wrong, and it was only a couple of lines with no big words.....

Penguin I made no comparison to Trump. I said he is on your side (Leave) thereby you know it to be the wrong move. Anything he is in favour of is clearly a Bad Idea.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Yes the lack of "big words" is incredibly impressive and distinguishing! Well done you!

I'm voting out. I think we'll stay in.

I'm voting in, but my fb feed seems to be full of those in favour of leaving.
I don't think it'll be good for the country if we leave.

Yes the lack of "big words" is incredibly impressive and distinguishing! Well done you!

And yet you were still so confused, and are now taking the high (and patronising) road. Bless.
Anyway, leaving will be a little like the Simpsons episode where Homer runs for sanitation commissioner. Except you won't be leaving. Even the gen pop of the UK isn't that dumb.