I agree another referendum would be another close shave. I don't believe a lot of people would be voting on the basis of a fully-reasoned argument, but I don't believe they ever do that.
Polls depend on how well they are conducted, how perceptive the polling organisation is in setting parameters and asking questions, and how good its workforce is. (If history showed only 10% of young voters actually vote, and you take that into account when taking your poll and making predictions ....... you might be horribly wrong if 60% of young people then turn out to vote IF they do indeed vote in a different way to older people.)
I did tell you on Sportsbabble that getting a deal with the EU was virtually impossible - they create rigid rules which they then follow. M. Barnier isn't negotiating, he hasn't the power, he's collecting ticks for boxes. If we ever tick enough we get to start negotiating. All along I've thought the options remain NO DEAL or NO BREXIT (by some means yet to be invented, but which quickly would be if we voiced such a desire). There is also now a surprising third option of Maggie May falls, the Tories burn, an early election ensues and Jeremy Corbyn negotiates us into Norway-lite and merges with the SNP.
The more we see of the bureaucracy and intractability of the EU the more I wonder why anyone would want to be part of it beyond the notion of being afraid of the future in any form. If you look at where our EU money as a net contributor goes, you find a vast amount wasted on pointless bureaucracy, pomp and pretence like negotiating the UK's exit when you have no intention of changing your position. Some goes to poorer countries and undoubtedly sometimes benefits them, but it goes on projects over which they have little, or no control. AND some comes back to us, which does some good things and stuff like pointlessly regenerating Cornwall on the basis of figures which weren't correct in the first place and which meant the money should actually have gone to other disadvantaged areas ........ Significantly when a poor country like Greece is in trouble the EU's reaction is basically to hold its head under water and condemn it for drowning.
You don't have to be in favour of a little britain to recognise that the EU has turned itself into a you-can't-do-that organisation which ties everything into core principles which become an excuse for upholding Franco-German capital's priorities often at the expense of their supposed partners, which are largely indistinguishable from hostages.
By the way that's just my opinion - I don't expect anyone to agree ....
Polls depend on how well they are conducted, how perceptive the polling organisation is in setting parameters and asking questions, and how good its workforce is. (If history showed only 10% of young voters actually vote, and you take that into account when taking your poll and making predictions ....... you might be horribly wrong if 60% of young people then turn out to vote IF they do indeed vote in a different way to older people.)
I did tell you on Sportsbabble that getting a deal with the EU was virtually impossible - they create rigid rules which they then follow. M. Barnier isn't negotiating, he hasn't the power, he's collecting ticks for boxes. If we ever tick enough we get to start negotiating. All along I've thought the options remain NO DEAL or NO BREXIT (by some means yet to be invented, but which quickly would be if we voiced such a desire). There is also now a surprising third option of Maggie May falls, the Tories burn, an early election ensues and Jeremy Corbyn negotiates us into Norway-lite and merges with the SNP.
The more we see of the bureaucracy and intractability of the EU the more I wonder why anyone would want to be part of it beyond the notion of being afraid of the future in any form. If you look at where our EU money as a net contributor goes, you find a vast amount wasted on pointless bureaucracy, pomp and pretence like negotiating the UK's exit when you have no intention of changing your position. Some goes to poorer countries and undoubtedly sometimes benefits them, but it goes on projects over which they have little, or no control. AND some comes back to us, which does some good things and stuff like pointlessly regenerating Cornwall on the basis of figures which weren't correct in the first place and which meant the money should actually have gone to other disadvantaged areas ........ Significantly when a poor country like Greece is in trouble the EU's reaction is basically to hold its head under water and condemn it for drowning.
You don't have to be in favour of a little britain to recognise that the EU has turned itself into a you-can't-do-that organisation which ties everything into core principles which become an excuse for upholding Franco-German capital's priorities often at the expense of their supposed partners, which are largely indistinguishable from hostages.
By the way that's just my opinion - I don't expect anyone to agree ....