The Remain campaign have been countering Leave’s effective immigration blast with claims that this shows Leave have lost the argument on the economy. Hold on….that wasn’t their argument anyway….immigration, red-tape, sovereignty and freedom from an unelected EU government are Leave’s main platforms.
This shows that Remain know they can’t win the argument on immigration…but did they win the ‘argument’ on the economy anyway? Firstly this was their own ‘argument’, it was the ground they chose to fight on and the ground that the BBC ceded to them as it concentrated on reporting on economic issues and the EU and doing its best to avoid immigration, sovereignty and most important of all, what happens if we stay in the EU? Will the EU steamroller be ratcheted up and ever-closer union be closer than ever and the UK dragged in with UK politicians collaborating to willingly bring the UK into the EU super-state?
Firstly of course the polls are pretty much neck and neck, the latest from ICM putting Leave ahead…in fact, you may not have noticed, but Leave has been ahead in many polls. What is interesting is that the polls that put Remain ahead are mostly phone polls done by IPSOS Mori…most other polls which put Leave ahead or on a par, are online….where you might think a more considered answer might have been given and the questions mulled over longer than you would give a phone call….the tone of the questions on which would depend upon the pollster at the other end.
I haven’t heard the BBC giving much airtime to the fact the Leave seems to be doing far better than they are credited to be doing…as said, ahead or drawing in most polls.
So did Remain ‘win the economic argument’? Certainly not with me…I suspect much will stay the same long term, short term there may be a bit of a downturn perhaps but with things picking up and improving once free of the EU strait-jacket.
Tory MP Rishi Sunak lays out a credible case for Leave.
What else of significance? Whilst pumping out anti-Brexit warnings from the OECD and the Dutch PM the BBC seems to have missed this significant revelation for some reason…..
Two thirds of people think Brexit would not leave them any poorer
Two-thirds of Britons believe that they would not be worse off in the event of a Brexit vote, in a blow to the assembled forces of “Project Fear”.
The findings came despite warnings issued by the Treasury, the Bank of England, the International Monetary Fund, and the OECD, all of which have cautioned on the economic repercussions of a Brexit vote to some degree, and suggest that most voters have been left unconvinced.
Some 58pc of the public believe that their living standards would stay the same in the five years after a UK withdrawal from the EU, according to an Ipsos Mori survey of more than 4,000 Britons. A further 11pc expect that their financial well being would actually improve if voters decided to leave the political bloc behind on June 23.
How can the BBC have missed that? Kind of a bombshell for the Remain campaign…in fact Andrew Neil has retweeted the article…so maybe at least one at the BBC will be willing to tell the truth…
Philip Cowley
@philipjcowley58% don’t think Brexit would make them poorer; 11% think they’d be better off. Remain: you have a problem.
What else has the BBC failed to report?
Tusk blames ‘utopian’ EU elites for Eurosceptic revolt and Brexit crisis
European Council president Donald Tusk has warned EU leaders in the bluntest terms that their “utopian” illusions are tearing Europe apart, and that any attempt to seize on Brexit to force through yet more integration would be a grave mistake.
In a passionate plea to Europe’s top conservatives, he accused the EU elites of living in a fool’s paradise and provoking the eurosceptic revolt now erupting in a string of countries.
“It is us who today are responsible,” he said, speaking at a conclave of Christian-Democrat and centre-right leaders in Luxembourg. “Obsessed with the idea of instant and total integration, we failed to notice that ordinary people, the citizens of Europe, do not share our Euro-enthusiasm.”
Mr Tusk, alert to the patriotic revival in his native Poland, lambasted the EU establishment for pushing “a utopia of Europe without nation states” that goes against the grain of European history and has produced a deep cultural backlash that cannot be dismissed as illegitimate far-right populism.
What Tusk says goes right to the heart of the debate, he echoes Leave’s arguments…it’s not about economics, it’s about politics and the loss of nationality. No wonder the BBC doesn’t want to highlight his comments…unlike the Dutch PM’s or in fact any other EU politician who supports Remain.
There appears to be some confusion (possibly deliberately expressed) over a points based immigration system
Some are talking about TRAVEL being restricted from EU countries to the U.K.
I do not think that the idea is to stop people coming here for holidays, visit friends etc. is it?
It is the right to issue of an N.I. number and hence ability to work in the U.K. which needs be removed.