56% Of Britons Want To Stay In The Eu!!

[sp1814]

...with just 36% saying they want out.

Why do you think this is?

Could it be that the rise of UKIP has actually galvanised the waverers?

Could this be the real voice of the 'silent majority'?

With the rise and evident popularity of UKIP, these figures make absolutely no sense...!

Anyone got an idea?

Because I for one am flummoxed

(...and admittedly, quietly/childishly giggling to myself in anticipation of the forthcoming answers).

Reuters link:

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/10/22/uk-britain-politics-europe-idUKKCN0IB1UZ20141022

[Zacs-Master]

//You're clearly missing the mood of the 'ordinary man in the street' and a large portion of the electorate with you insular and dismissive views.//
.....Said the blind man to the beggar.
Educate yourselves or just act like sheep. It's up to you.

[EDDIE51]

Cameron realises the conservatives are going to lose the next election so he is trying to win back a few UKIP voters and hopefully loose fewer seats by promising a referendum . Realistically I know there is no chance of getting out of the EU. I just wish the politicians would do the same and get on with making the best we can for ourselves out of the situation.
As to freedom of movement within the EU, well Cameron has just been put firmly in his place by the EU president on that score.
We 'baby boomers' are rapidly becoming pensioners and we need a lot more working tax payers to provide us with our pensions for the next 30 years or so. Those taxpayers will need to come from the EU as there will be a shortage of 'native' workers.

[ChillDoubt]

Educate yourselves or just act like sheep. It's up to you
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Just like the electorate over the last 35-40 years you mean Zacs? As most have said, it's the ordinary man in the street who has woken up to the unfulfilled promises of successive governments, failed policy procedures and seeing their autonomy and in many ways identity stripped away from them as a result.
Everyone with even a basic interest or knowledge of politics has now acknowledged and it is widely accepted that next May will be the most significant year in politics in this country for over a hundred years.

As for methyl, your paranoia is almost seeping through the screen! It's an election next May, not the Night of The Long Knives! LOL

[jomifl]

Considering that the right wing gutter press have been campaigning against the EU for decades the poll result is quite surprising and has restored my oft lagging confidence in the intellect of the British public. Perhaps the gutter press readers are only interested in celeboobs and nipslips and don't actually read the papers that they buy

[BlackadderV]

Is anyone seriously comparing UKIP to this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29Mg6Gfh9Co

[Zacs-Master]

No, it's the 'ordinary man in the street' (cue the one distant stereotyping) who doesn't read past the headlines and believes Farage's popularise sound bites. I never said the other choices were perfect but they're a damn sight better than racism masquerading as mainstream politics. Without looking it up Chill, what is UKiP's policy on education?

[ToraToraTora]

godwins law took a while here!

[Zacs-Master]

Here here Methyl. But that's not the issue. The issue is people hearing what they want to hear because they've been whipped into a frenzy by the red top rubbish. Educate yourselves, for gawds sake.

[ChillDoubt]

Which part Zacs? It's quite extensive. The main one that has cuaght the eye of most is the charging students from the EU the same as we charge non EU students.
As for the rest, you stick with the 'not perfect' policies of the others and maintain the status quo.
After all, they've done marvellously well thus far and are soooooo in touch with the ordinary voter, aren't they?
The electorate are obviously happy with their lot aren't they?

[BlackadderV]

Of course, the elephant in the room is this: what percentage of those polled were illegal immigrants?

[Zacs-Master]

They're not happy but I hope to god they realise the difference between Farage's popularist Jam tomorrow politics and the genuine article. I hope you do too.

[ChillDoubt]

Educate yourselves, for gawds sake.
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In that case, it's hear, hear, not here, here! LOL
UK has got some sensible policies, some not so, but then that's the same across the board(as you've already indicated), so you pays yer money and you takes yer choice.
I'm guessing that methyl has done just that, as he/she knows all about the Nazi Party and how the UK is shortly to be overrun by the brown shirts!
Deary me.

[ChillDoubt]

Should read UKIP, not UK.....

[BlackadderV]

The Brown Shirts came to a sticky end. It's the Black Shirts who caused all the bother.

[EDDIE51]

blackadder , an illegal immigrant is scarcely going to volunteer to answer a questionnaire !! I would take a very heavy bet that not one respondent was an illegal immigrant.

[Svejk]

Most of us 'bought in' to left-wing politics and the idea we were the only educated people in the country when we were 12 years old. Luckily, most of us grew out of it.

[Zacs-Master]

I never had you down as a pedant Chill. ;-)
UKIP have some sensible 'sounding' policies with no idea how to fund them and no experience of running a country. Unfortunately a large proportion of the electorate can't see past the sound bites / headlines. You obviously can so I'm not sure why you're even tolerating them.