Everyone knows there is going to be the all important EU referendum on 23 June. It’s the biggest political event of our lifetimes and we need to stay in for peace, prosperity and people.
But do you know what will happen on 20 June? England will beat Slovakia to secure their place in the Quarter-Finals of Euro 2016.
The final is not until 10 July. So, we will know whether we are going in or out of the EU before we know whether we are going in or out of the tournament.
It will be a busy week for hard core music fans as the Glastonbury festival will start the week of poll too.
Not to mention some holidaymakers, if they are not tied to the school terms, going away as well.
If you have any doubt that you will be able to get to the polling station to vote, register for a postal ballot now. Tell family, friends and neighbours too.
* Antony Hook was #2 on the South East European list in 2014, is the English Party's representative on the Federal Executive and produces this sites EU Referendum Roundup.
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BBC News is reporting that BMW has sent an email to staff about the effect on their job security if the UK leaves the EU. Th effect is negative.
“Tariff barriers would mean higher costs and higher prices and we cannot assume that the UK would be granted free trade with Europe from outside the EU.”
BMW makes MINIs at Cowley near Oxford and owns Rolls Royce Motors.
The factory at derby which makes Bentleys is owned by the Volkswagen-Audi Group.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35712537
“The BMW Group believes that the UK is better as a member of the EU than it would be outside it. You will see in the media this week an open letter supporting the campaign to stay in the EU, signed by around 200 business leaders, including Member of the AG Board, Ian Robertson.”
It is misleading of OUT campaigners to refer to the number of business leaders who did not sign this letter. Some are reluctant to get involved in politics publicly, some recall an alleged boycott of Sainsburys by SNP campaigners during the Scottish referendum
I think the OUT campaigners are being misleading almost to the point of telling out right lies. Yes, I don’t doubt that outside of the EU the UK could have a rosy future. However, there is the simple matter of the divorce – life will be hell for a good few years, whilst we go through the divorce, get started on our newly independent life, hopefully (but with all human relationships, especially those between Britain and Europe this is not guaranteed) come to some cordial relationship moving forward.
So for many people the real question is do you want decades of uncertainty and for what real gain? Because as is becoming increasingly obvious, the roots to our EU problems are at Westminster…
I’ m not sure that the word divorce is at all useful in working out what might happen after Brexit not least because in a divorce everyone loses if revenge emotion is allowed to become the driving force. Fortunately trade seems to have no such revenge emotion in the way that persists in politicians. The workers at BAe systems trade very eagerly with Saudi Arabia but I’m certain that they don’t like the Saudis. The French growers of peppers and tomatoes cared not a jot about the machinations of Putin and Ukraine. It was politicians not traders who created the sanctions and barriers to trade with Russia. So whilst politicians might feel an emotional response to irrationally ‘take their ball home’ and interrupt trading after Brexit I can’t see why traders would act likewise against their own self interests and foolishly close their markets. Luckily traders don’t think like politicians. It seems to me that traders will continue to trade very eagerly in the background in spite of politicians who might be nursing their bruised egos.