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Perhaps far less, depends on the actual leaving process I expect. What we are seeing todays is panic from those most interested in the status quo continuing I suppose. By the by how did the bookies get on? Did they take a hammering with those 4 and 5 to 1 against odds they were still offering yesterday evening?

Suit yourself, I live here, I see the problem every day, you don't.

Probably, it's not a particularly stable club. Runs on a budget of a sum which we might consider paying for a couple of decent players. Since they've had their flash new stadium which I don't think they own of course they're probably getting home gates of around 20000 or so.

Yes, quite recently but there are some fairly serious problems there and emanating from there because 40% of Mayotte residents are in fact illegal immigrants, or so they tell us on the news anyway. The Mahorais have decided to take matters into their own hands and just bung them into the sea or something.

Sarkozyian estimate from a few years back.

And they cause us very little problem at all because of their French upbringing. Whereas those from Mayotte....say no more.

About 2 and a half million all in all, spread over workers, retired people and social parasites. But then of course the workers and retired don't claim very much off the state. Add them to the 2 million other illegal immigrants causing havoc and we've got a problem.

Yes and no. We have 2 problems, that of Africans and North Africans coming into the country through Spain and Italy as tourists and never leaving and all the migrants coming from Eastern Europe in general and Roumania in particular. They are causing havoc in our social welfare systems because of the way these are scaled. A family of 7 (2 adults, 5 children) can expect to claim through various allowances somewhere in the region of 3000 € a month or more, very little of this goes back into our economy as most of it goes straight back to Roumania and Bulgaria. The family then lives rough off odd jobs paid "au noir", begging and other unenviable sources of income. Come here and drive around the peripheries of big population centres, you'll see what I mean. Err we've got about 2 and a half million EU migrants.

What a pity, never mind, I'm sure that we'll all muddle through without them. Obviously they were only here because it suited them to be so. Enjoy Ireland lads and lasses, alright for a week or so then it's just plain boring, which is why most of them live in Liverpool I guess. Oh and forget Frankfurt...you'll be second class citizens there I expect.

No, probably about 55/45 for a Frexit. We've had enough as well, jeez we have our own immigration problems without getting all Germany's cast offs from time to time. If you take the anti EU parties (and that includes both the hard right and the hard left at any given election they're pushing 40% already, throw in a bit of the right of the traditional right (not the FN) and you're past the post.. What saves the day for the pro-europeans every time is the 2 round system where the first past the poster isn't normally the winner because the others gang up on them.

Well it seems that thse markets went up quite a bit this week on encouraging opinion polls and now they've found out that if it's not as the Sun says it ain't going to happen. I mean they must spend millions on opinion polls and stuff in the finance industry when all you have to do to know the outcome of any given UK election is spend a quid on The Sun.

Strange how the FTSE is only down about 3.7% today and yet the CAC 40 (french index) is off by over 8%. Looks like the financial market meltdown predicted by some is happening, but not where they thought. I understand that it's French banks that are being hit by massive share price losses. Wonder why that is then. Perhaps it's because they'll have to ante up more than expected for all the bail outs that have been promised now that we won't have any part of it in the near future.

He polls at around 11% in the satisfaction polls. He is an utter idiot who should never have been elected. We would have been better off with the womanising Strauss Kahn if we had to have a socialist at all. Hollande has never held public office before and is just a bumbling idiot who sways with the wind whichever way it's going. He is a constant popularity seeker, which is kind of strange because no French president before him has ever been as unpopular.

Ah I don't know. At one time the "Duty Free" which was just in effect VAT free fuelled the ridiculously low prices on Ferries. I used to have a day trip to the UK (when we lived in Paris that is and Calais was an hour and a half away if I put my foot down and didn't listen to constant stop requests from the kids) return ticket 50 Francs. Looked at the ferry prices the other day and they wanted to charge me 150 euros. EasyJet and a hired car comes at half of that. Now that VAT will eventually return to payment at borders and you'll still get "personal allowance" those days may return. However for the old freight clearance agencies business will eventually boom again when VAT becomes payable at UK ports. that was a sinister racket, getting charged 2% fee on top of the VAT payable.

But that's sectarian violence and has nothing to do with the EU. Didn't stop until long after we joined the old EEC.

Didn't know we knew who was or is on the short-list anyway. It's all speculation . I'm OK with Puel myself, he's done pretty well eveywhere he's been. Monaco, Lyon, Lille and Nice. Anyway his daughter and mine are old aquaintances...

Anyone know the real turn-out percentages for each age group? Could it be that the apathy of the 18-24 year olds has, partially at least, occasioned this result?

He'd probably be just as useless as he was at Toon or Hull. Ben Arfa looks OK in a poor league, where as I keep telling you, certain players are about Conference League standard. Ben Arfa has done nothing when the real questions were asked of him. Now his PR set up are releasing rumours of pursuit by Barcelona etc...well more fool them, he needs to prove has has what it takes in a real league first.

All that would happen is a bigger majority for leave, now that people have seen that for the time being at least very little changes. Unless of course the remain party agreed to kick out say 2 million immigrants. It's not even about Europe really, it's about immigration. We can't control it's main sources so we've had a stab at the secondary source. Deport a couple of million Pakistanis and you'd see a change in opinion.

He is not wrong, everything has gone down the crapper but at a faster rate since 2012. The generous social security system is crumbling under the weight of the demand and the whole set up is now a tinder box waiting for the fatal spark.

Then again you're probably not in Paris. In fact we should be a lesson to all European countries, if you let wimps like Hollande anywhere near the power structure, aided and abetted by Merkel, then you will pay the consequences. We've probably got more refugée camps than Jordan and Turkey combined. I was down in the south the other day, Artland, on every bit of wasteland not protected by three layer thick iron fencing there are 400 caravan gypsy settlements, and they aren't nice French people either. At every traffic light there are beggars who insult you in pigeon french if you don't give them anything.

Puel left Nice of his own accord back in May. He was going to stay on and sign a new contract but something persuaded him to do otherwise. What that might have been I've no idea. At the time I thought that Marseille were on the verge of finding a serious buyer and he'd been approached to take over there, doesn't seem to happening, for the time being at least.

Don't know from where they get their figures or at what moment but these are not the bank to bank rates which are in play at this very moment. Might be what you get from your local travel agency I suppose. Against the Euro the fall has been gradual for about 6 months now apart from a couple of blips where opinion polls have been wrong and there's been a bit of optimism in the markets. I'll lose about 200 euros a month compared to last autumn as it stands today. However going back to football, those clubs who bought players on the never never last summer/autumn (like Martial) will find their remaining payments jacked up quite a bit unless the agreed price was in some other currency than sterling.

I don't know about most of you but one of the most annoying things to me is that the Sun got it right again. Unless of course one dares to think that British voting trends really are effected by crap like the Sun.