What is your most selfish reason for wanting the result you want?

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I want in because I am a lawyer and I would have to learn lots of new laws if we left

My mum wants out because she likes to get one over on me

My silliest reason for IN is that I love my maroon passport and always feel a shared sense of belonging with other maroon passport holders in the queue.

I also like to think I am French (I am definitely not) and therefore can go there and pretend whenever I was.

I want UK to stay because DH just got a brilliant permanent job in an EU country. I want to be able to get a good permanent job there too so we could finally buy a house for our young family.

But I don't get to vote because I haven't lived in the UK for 15 years. For some of that time I've been exercising my EU citizenship by working in other European countries. If EU citizens living in UK had got to vote in the referendum I would have been less pissed off about being disenfranchised.

I am British by birth and ancestry and have lived and worked throughout the EU and Commonwealth. This vote directly affects me and my life. And I get no say. So all this waffle from Leave supporters about democracy and sovereignty makes my blood boil. Millions of British citizens overseas are disenfranchised from one of the most important democratic vote of their lives. What's the point of me being a British citizen, I ask myself?

Because I'm currently fairly near the start of a very long degree, getting accepted onto which was life-changing for me, not to mention the fact that I pay no tuition fees by virtue of being an EU citizen.

I'm on a national residence permit which is entirely dependent on my DP and I continuing to be in a relationship. If we broke up and I was still an EU citizen, I could theoretically stay here and find a job and work enough hours alongside my (already very full-on) course in order to qualify for the same financial support as citizens of this country. It would be a horrifying time full of uncertainty, but it might just about be doable, if I could find accommodation that was in any way affordable and was permitted some time out to get on my feet. This is because I am an EU citizen.

As a non-EU citizen, if my relationship with DP broke down I would be utterly, utterly fucked. I would lose my particular residence permit, which as a non-EU citizen would be the only thing protecting me from tuition fees, and I would probably have to apply for a student visa, which would likely simultaneously require me to have a certain amount of money to support myself per year (probably more than £7k in the bank per year, which I just don't have but could probably beg my dad's wife for) and prohibit me from working more than a set number of hours. So yeah. If we leave the EU I'm just going to have to hope my relationship with DP continues for at least another four+ years, or that he's exceptionally generous if we do break up and allows me to continue living with him. He has actually repeatedly promised me that that would be his plan, but we all know the person that breaks up with you doesn't always remember that kind of promise...

ooh, my old Black passport with the stroppy message on the front inside cover.

and STAMPS in it! lovely stamps!

Voting in because I want my kids to have the freedom to travel and work in the EU as I did in my youth.

Also wanting to see the back of Boris, Gove, Farage and the rest.

It was very dark blue, not black (father ted joke there). The stamps were cool. I miss the stamps.

I have one for each.
Leave: I need house prices to drop if I'm ever going be able to afford one
Stay: I just bought a phone from Spain cos they don't sell it here, and I'd like to be able to keep doing that

Our business depends on Europeans having confidence in the UK. Sales are down 50% already this year and we're really struggling not to go under, and have to make all our staff redundant

I want a remain result as there are threats to not increase the state pension for oap's who no longer live in the UK but in another EU country following a vote for leave.

We live in France, and DH gets the state pension. I don't get one, and don't know if I ever will - if I'm ever old enough it's likely that my £1799 occupational pension will prevent me from getting it on income grounds which will have probably been introduced by that time. Whatever the outcome, have no intention whatsoever of returning to the UK.

However, healthcare is a concern - we've been here long enough to be able to get into the state system in return for 10% of our income. But, as our income isn't high enough to pay tax, don't really want to lose 10% of it.

Just in case there is a leave vote, we've applied for permanent permission to remain. DD has talked about applying for French nationality.

I'm voting leave because I'm petrified for my children's future if even more significantly poorer countries join the eu (Albania, Macedonia etc) I don't believe public services could cope with the influx of migrants this would create. I'd also like my children to have a home of their own when they are adults.

Oh and I don't want the power of hairdryers to be limited....I have long thick hair and I need a high powered hairdryer otherwise I spend ages doing it.

lol at hairdryers.

just think of all the fun we can have playing with banned weedkillers if we vote out

(sorry, not lighthearted enough- will try to do better)

Selfishly I would like to see the political demise of Boris and Gove. I detest them. And also I'd like to be able to buy a property in Spain in the near future

I am struggling to think of some really, all the main issues have lessened for me at the moment to vote leave.

We are more likely to suffer in the very short term if there is any finical issues although I have just seen that Desutche Bank has claimed our economy will soar, which of course makes sense. Economy loves freedom.

Any short term pain my family suffers, any additional issues with visiting family who live in EU, is all worth it, to say to my DD I voted to give you power over your own country, for your voice to mean something.

PS I got my euros months ago.

former I am also petrified for dc future if we stay. Petrified.

If the EU experiment is to work, its going to take centuries for us all to be meddled together and there will be war before then from populations who resists this mass melding of nations. Our generation, our dc, their dc will all get thrown under the bus, as a generation already has..for this pointless experiment.

I miss the stamps Me too, but not the long waits at passport control or whole days spent queuing at embassies for a visa.

Yes, because there are never any wars, political tension or mass immigration before the European Union was formed.

Oh wait......

*Were, not are.

Selfish reasons to stay are that I don't want a recession that may cost us our jobs. Have other reasons to stay too and really don't want to leave.

Aaargh sorry, this is meant to be lighthearted. As you were!

Selfish reasons to remain are my job, DHs job are likely to be at the forefront of any shocks to the economy. Financially I cannot go through the stress of uncertainty, redundancy and recession. Where we live is not over run with migrants, my kids go to nice schools, GP practice is ok, house prices are sky high but we have lots of equity. Basically - life is good.

The whole campaign on both sides has made me sick to my stomach. Scaremongering, negativity and so much hate it's just made me loose all faith in those in charge.

In because I don't want Farage to be happy.

We are desperate not to leave. I feel gutted about what this will mean for the DCs. No chance to study or work on the continent. Plus a major recession now, then a depressed economy. Scotland will certainly go independent now, and due to that and the boundary changes we will be stuck with a very right wing Tory government (Boris, Gove, etc) forever I suppose. I really hate the thought of spending the rest of my life stuck on a small, insular, right wing island. The immigrants will still come. For starters, the French will no longer bother to keep them out of the Channel tunnel. So will England give up on the tunnel then?
So many people have been conned by the right wing press, and by professional conmen like Farage, or like Boris (doesn't believe a word of it but pretends to because he wants to take over the top job). It's very like what's happening in the US with Trump.

My most selfish/silly reason for wanting Remain to win is to watch that slime bag Boris Johnson try to wheedle his way back into contention for the Tory leadership by claiming he was only doing it to "present another viewpoint" or some such bollocks.
I should have bought Euros for our summer holidays weeks ago. Gah.
Booze cruises to France will be a thing of the past. The exchequer would slap duty back on and customs limits so fast our heads would spin !

My most Pro of Pro's/Cons reason for wanting "Leave" to win - the UK will actually have to deal with a flotilla of small boats full of refugees leaving France for the UK coasts, instead of them being left to rot in Calais. I don't think British people have the remotest concept of how many people other European nations are dealing with mostly with grace.
But this is supposed to be lighthearted - as you were.