EU referendum

Reflections on the EU Referendum Campaign: the Immigration Issue

By Michael Ingle on June 9, 2016 • ( 0 )

Looking back over previous posts on this site today, I was struck by my 31 August 2015 post ‘Will Immigration Concerns Lead to Brexit?’. As I predicted in that post, immigration has indeed become the number one issue of the… Read More ›

Will Immigration Concerns Lead to Brexit?

By Michael Ingle on August 31, 2015 • ( 0 )

Pre-EU Referendum polls show a continuing (and even increasing) lead for the ‘Yes’ campaign for Britain to stay in the EU. However, I am concerned that the constant focus on immigration issues in the UK could overturn this lead by… Read More ›

Eurosceptic Contradictions

By Michael Ingle on June 24, 2015 • ( 0 )

Eurosceptics are now limbering up for the ‘No’ campaign in the UK’s forthcoming EU referendum. It is becoming clear that their key arguments for a ‘No’ vote in the referendum include the following: If the UK does not leave the… Read More ›

EU Referendum Issues

By Michael Ingle on May 25, 2015 • ( 0 )

Though I have always opposed holding an in-out EU referendum (for reasons well expressed by Tony Blair during the recent election campaign), UK voters have now decreed that we will have one. More than 50% of voters supported the Tories… Read More ›

The UK Election Campaign Comes to Life

By Michael Ingle on April 10, 2015 • ( 1 )

The campaign for the UK election, which will be held on 7th May, is at last showing signs of life. The campaign proper only started on 30th March, after a lengthy ‘phony campaign’ which had been going on since Christmas…. Read More ›