aintforever

All the more reason to control the hoards of unskilled labour pouring in from Poland and Romania.

History suggests that the EU will always push for closer and closer union, they will never vote for less power and less money - it will always be the other way.

I don't see much strategy from the in campaign about how we will deal with becoming part of an EU superstate or how we are going to cope with the 400,000 extra people each year whilst making cuts to public services.

That's always been England's problem IMO. It's a combination of having a large pool of 'OK' players to choose from and a press/public which put the manager under massive pressure. If the England manager ignores the players from the big clubs and we lose he gets crucified. If he picks the big players and we lose it's just "England are not good enough again not the boss' fault". For example, Rooney shouldn't be anywhere near the England first XI, yet if Roy drops him from the squad he instantly puts his head on the block.

Or you could trust none of them and just make up your own mind.

I'm not suggesting any of that, I am perfectly happy about paying tax and don't expect preferential treatment. But if the population the size of Southampton is turning up every year, the only way to avoid the service getting worse and worse each year is to build the equivalent of Southampton's services every year.

The doctors who ended up delivering my daughter were not English, the one who corrected the student's mistake was Asian, and the person who actually delivered her was an excellent doctor from Africa. The thing is, we would be able to import more talented people from around the world if we were not swamped with uncontrolled amounts of unskilled people from around the EU.

YTHat is one way of looking at it. Another way is I have paid a lot of money into a system and the one time I really need to use it, it lets me down because a load of people who haven't paid are in the queue ahead of me.

Firstly, it wasn't A&E it was the maternity ward and they were completely overstreatched - we were palmed off with students who misdiagnosis caused a lot of unnecessary pain for my Mrs. In the ward she ended up staying in she was the only one who spoke in English. I have no doubt the foreigners using our resources were probably working and contributing but I have been paying a higher than average amount of tax for probably 20-25 years now. Over those years I have used next to nothing of our hospital service I have been paying into, never needed to call the fire brigade or directly needed the police service. I have seen a doctor a handful of times for minor things - that's pretty much all I have used. Health care is expensive, I would like to know exactly how long would a Pole on minimum wage would have to be here before their taxes cover the costs of even a minor operation. Isn't the equivalent of the city of Southampton turning up here every year? Yet we continue to cat services. It's ****ing bonkers and there is only one way to sort it. I'm not just basing my views on my experience either, a friend had to wait an hour and half for an ambulance not long ago despite being seriously injured. Just a quick look online: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/12189947/Grandmother-89-left-waiting-for-ambulance-in-the-snow-for-three-hours-despite-nine-999-calls.html

Possibly. Seeing how overstretched our health service is and experiencing the effects first hand made me realise how bonkers it is not controlling how many people we let in. How can we even plan our public services when we don't have the slightest clue what demand will be? It's one of many issues. Another one is watching my builder mate work himself to an early grave trying to compete with cheap foreign labour.

Everyone has an opinion, and their own reasons for wanting to stay or leave. Personally my views on the EU were made up after watching my wife in agony in an overstretched hospital whilst a bunch of Polish people took advantage of our health care. And if I could list the people who's opinion I gave a **** about, politicians and bankers would be very much near the bottom.

I can't believe that will happen, it only ever goes one way. Turkeys don't vote for Christmas - the EU is in charge and it will only ever want more power and more of our money.

Quoting percentages of MPs views is completely pointless, it's the British people who will decide, how the MPs will vote is irrelivant. Wether you are left wing or right makes little difference IMO, I'm more left leaning and I am going to vote out.

I think it's a bit of a no-lose gamble as most of the Tory party members are anti EU.

Its no great surprise that a German car company want us in the EU. The more the Germans say they want us in the more I think we could probably get a better deal out - they will only be worried about the effect on them not us.

They always seem to be the same people who cry like babies because they pay a bit of tax.

****ing hell do you really believe the stuff you write? Millions of people around the world rely on subsistence agriculture that depends on certain climate/weather conditions their people have depended on for hundreds of years. Climate change is way more likely to cause mass starvation than any possible impact of the fertilisation effect. In the developed world we moan about the odd flood or storm, in undeveloped countries if the rains don't come, or floods do - people die. We are breaking temperature records all over the place, seemingly every year yet you are worried about a possible ice age - LOL, think you are a few marbles short.

No reason why it should cause either.

Yes, there are a lot of other factors Yes, there is much to learn about the science Yes, it impossible to forecast what will happen yes, you have to be a ****ing idiot not to do anything about it

Would be a sensible question if we didn't already know that we pumped billions of tons of it into the atmosphere every year. That's a fact, the properties of CO2 as a greenhouse gas is fact and the temperature rise is a fact.

He has done **** all since leaving us.

I think he just said the Japanese idea was worth considering, probably to appease those in the submarine industry. do you have a link to where he has ever said it was his preferred option?

I guess he thinks it's a huge waste if he said that just two days ago.

He's always been anti trident, that is crystal clear. I think he said the Japanese idea of subs with other warheads was worth considering. I don't think he has ever said that was his preferred option. Blowing billions on a bunch of nuclear weapons at a time when the country is skint is complete madness.

Might as well make it our main rivalry IMO. Portsmouth are an irrelevance now, could be decades before we even play them again. Southampton v Bournemouth, Portsmouth v Eastliegh - that's the derbies of the future.