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I don't think it's an affront to democracy... more a sign of increasing desperation within the status quo...

Well, regardless of my opinion on Brexit - which is on the fence - sometimes the status quo isn't that bad.

They say "if it ain't broke, don't fix it", right?

The problem with the Brexit and other similar situations is that they tend to be used by the various parties more to score political points than to actually fight for a cause they believe is just.

So one of the reasons I haven't made my mind up is that I won't bother looking up the various statistics and data that vouch to stay or to leave - the data is easily taken out of context and open to interpretation.

For instance, the "stay in" campaign says


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Almost half of everything we sell to the rest of the world we sell to Europe - and we get an average of £24 billion of investment into Britain per year from Europe.

That's why the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) estimates that 3 million jobs in Britain are linked to trade with the rest of Europe

So with that, they have inferred in the past that by exiting from the EU 3 million jobs would be put at risk.

To me that's nonsense. Europe would continue to be Britain's trading partner regardless as to whether Brexit takes place or not. If Britain sells goods and services to Europe, it's because Europe needs it. So by saying all those jobs are at risk is tantamount to scaremongering IMO.

I'm sure similar fallacies can be found on the other side as well. The point is, for the average citizen, it is difficult to determine whether Britain in the EU is broken or not.

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Our columnists debate whether there could be some upsides for other EU states if Britain leaves

The EU referendum campaign officially began this week and one area that has not been examined so far has been what would happen to the EU if Britain votes to leave. Much of the debate so far has focused on the consequences for Britain, but Brexit would undoubtedly have an impact both on the structure of the EU and its remaining members. The Financial Times’ commentators discuss whether Brexit would be bad for Europe.

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Betting odds move sharply toward Britain staying in EU after Obama warning

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74pct to remain.
Must say I'm surprised

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74pct to remain.
Must say I'm surprised

I don't know what to think to be honest, although I have to say I tend to be highly skeptical of all these polls. They always seem to be biased. It seems to me that polls are being used these days just like newspapers: they all carry a political agenda and they all mean to influence readers/users in one direction. There does not seem to be much objectivity anymore.

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The warnings to GB inhabitants came from Obama yesterday.
Some questions are allowed to know why USA is influencing a state with a good government.
And why a president "warns" the inhabitants over there.
What profits will have USA for themselves?

Watching all these TTIP problems that will undermine government jurisdiction and in
most cases bring states into troubles having only arbitration tribunals instead of their
own judges working with written rights of their proper state.

Development between the "friendship" of 2 continents is somewhat frightening.

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74pct to remain.
Must say I'm surprised

Case in point, about the unreliability of polls. You check 5 different polls, you get 5 different results


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My own guess is that Obama's intervention will do the "Remain" side more harm than good. The British electorate dislikes being told what to do by foreigners just as much as Americans do.

There hasn't been a real vote on this for about 40 years, and the polling companies lack information on how to do it reliably.

For example, when the leading polling organisations do general election polling, they all incorporate a fixed adjustment factor to allow for the fact that a small, but pretty regular proportion of voters on one particular side of the political spectrum conceal their true voting intention from the pollster (i.e. they deliberately lie about how they're going to vote). This adjustment method has developed gradually, over the decades, and all the polling organisations agree about it, have statistically valid evidence of it, and so on. In the case of the Brexit poll, however, there's no equivalent data available, and that makes the findings potentially even less reliable than usual.

Some people believe that a similar, or slightly higher, proportion of "Brexiters" will do the same thing (and I suspect they're right), but there's no real evidence for it: it's only guesswork.

One thing that does seem certain, and reliably so, is that telephone polls are far more indicative than online polls of overall voting outcomes.

The thing that interests me, at the moment, is that the overall proportions of "inners" and "outers" seems not to be changing very much, while the proportion of "undecideds" is apparently shrinking very rapidly.

And for anyone wanting the gossip: Alison Pearson, whom I regard as probably reliable on such subjects, writes in the Daily Telegraph that Samantha Cameron and Sarah Vine (Mrs. Michael Gove) are not at the moment on speaking terms, in spite of Sarah Vine being the Godmother of one of the Cameron children, following Vine's "revelation" in a newspaper column (she's a political journalist) that Cameron admitted privately to Gove that his recently attempted EU negotiations hadn't really achieved anything worth talking about - something I think we all knew anyway?

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Just in the last couple of days, I've seen the following polls in my news feed about leave/remain opinions




Considering that polls
  • should be impartial
  • should be balanced
  • should reflect what people think

If the above is true, then polls should differ only very slightly from each other, unlike what I am seeing.

Do you have any views to explain the significant differences?

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Do you have any views to explain the significant differences?


Not sure that this is really an answer to your question at all, but there seems to me to be a growing consensus among the political commentators/journalists/analysts/academics that (for reasons I don't understand) the most ardently pro-EU voters are "the hardest for the pollsters to reach and include" and that the polls may, therefore, generally underestimate the size of the "remain" vote.

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