EU referendum: Cameron sets June date for UK vote

[dutchman]

Brussels bosses delay plans for next EU budget until AFTER Brexit vote



Last year, UK taxpayers’ paid £13billion to the EU budget but voters now won’t know whether that amount is likely to rise before they decide whether to remain or leave the 28-country bloc on June 23.

In an email seen by Express.co.uk, members of the European Parliament’s budget committee have been told plans for 2017 spending have been “postponed” from the end of May until the end of June.

MEPs have also been told to clear their diaries for a key budget meeting and vote on June 27.

The unusual delay in announcing the draft EU budget, which totalled more than £110billion in 2015, breaks the traditional cycle for deciding Brussels spending.

The European Commission usually presents a draft budget before the end of April or the beginning of May, although it is under no legal obligation to do so until September 1.

Brussels officials have blamed the delay on Europe’s migration crisis, claiming EU bosses want more time to decide whether they need extra cash to deal with the unprecedented flow of people across the bloc’s borders.

Alexander Winterstein, the European Commission’s spokesman for the budget and human resources, said: “This is a key moment in the refugee crisis and we need to adapt our budget proposals accordingly.

“As always, we will propose a draft budget before the summer.”

But Brexit campaigners have suggested EU bosses could be trying to hide a huge hike in Britain’s budget contribution until after June 23.

[rebbonk]

I personally am shocked to think the Brits have lost their will to fight for freedom and taking chances being ruled by a nanny state and being cowered by our politician s it surely has worked. If we had trained and educated our kids better instead of looking down on those that dont make University perhaps our country would of been in a far better position and more entrepreneur s but our society praise any others from other countries giving them more confidence but not to our own kids even in schools.

It's all an illusion Melisandre!

The government don't want educated people, hence the steady dumbing down of qualifications. The less educated are generally more easily controlled and manipulated. As long as the average Brit has TV, lager, fags and weed, he's happy and doesn't really give a stuff about what goes on around him.

Then we have the mortgage. We encourage people to own their own homes, but of course they can't afford them, so we enslave them with mortgages. Those with mortgages daren't misbehave in case they lose what they've worked so hard for.

Sometimes people need to open their eyes and actually see what is going on around them.

[rebbonk]

Stolen from another site I use, but I think this sums up the UK quite well...

"an increasingly hedonistic population shunned politics in favour of materialism, trivia, instant gratification and self obsession"

[Melisandre]

I fully agree with all you ve written Rebbonk as of buying a house they know full well we can not afford what better way of banks or building society to get a hold on property and making money from it when the buyer defaults in payment after there will be plenty of well to do foreigners out ghere ready to snap them up and rent them out to us at avhigh rate. Is nt this what our government want and depend on our housing market.

[rebbonk]

The housing market is one big bubble, that will eventually burst spectacularly. - 2008 was only a slight deflation!

People are going to get their fingers badly burned.

[dutchman]

Campaign to keep UK in EU takes 18-percentage point lead

The campaign to keep Britain in the European Union has taken an 18 percentage point lead over the "Out" campaign ahead of a June 23 referendum, its widest in three months, a telephone opinion poll by Ipsos MORI showed on Wednesday.

Sterling climbed to a three-week high on the news, which adds to signs that the "Remain" campaign may be starting to pull ahead after weeks of warnings from the British government and international bodies about the economic cost of leaving the EU.

In a poll commissioned by the Evening Standard newspaper, Ipsos MORI found 55 percent of those surveyed supported staying in the EU while 37 percent wanted to leave and 8 percent were undecided.

A month ago the same poll showed a 10-point lead for "Remain", while opinion polls from other firms - which typically show more evenly split opinion - have also started to show a bigger lead for "In".

"It's clear that there is a move to 'Remain'. Equally, we need to wait to see if that's an ongoing trend," said Ipsos MORI's head of political research, Gideon Skinner.

[rebbonk]

I was reading only today in a Reuters report that it was thought to be too close to call!

Apparently Camoron has ruled out any further referendum if the result is close.

[rebbonk]

EU delays ban on electric kettles until after referendum

Britain’s love of tea and toast has convinced Brussels to shelve plans to ban high-powered kettles and toasters, due to fears that a clumsy intervention could send Brexit passions boiling over.

Mindful of a spirited public outcry in Britain over a recent ban on powerful vacuum cleaners, the European Commission has delayed a second eco-friendly assault on household goods such as hairdryers and hostess trolleys, at least until after the UK’s EU referendum in June.

As well as the kettle-toaster sidestep, the commission has quietly buried or rescheduled a host of potential British irritants, including VAT reform to eliminate zero-rated goods like children's clothes; potential state aid investigations into tax; progress on a review of the working-time directive; and a package on free movement that will include parts of Britain’s EU renegotiation. EU officials insist there have been no special favours and deny they are storing up trouble for after the vote.

[dutchman]

Britain says Turkey 'decades' from joining the EU



British Prime Minister David Cameron said May 22 it would be decades before Turkey could possibly join the EU, saying that it might happen in the year 3000 on current progress.

Even then, the United Kingdom, like all member states, would have a veto on their entry, Cameron said, with future Turkish accession a key battleground in Britain's referendum on its own EU membership.

"It is not remotely on the cards that Turkey is going to join the EU at any time soon," Cameron told ITV television.

"They applied in 1987. At the current rate of progress, they'd probably get round to joining in about the year 3000."

In 2010, Cameron went to Ankara to "make the case for Turkey's membership of the EU. And to fight for it".

During former Turkish president Abdullah Gül's state visit in 2011, Cameron reassured him that Britain remained strongly supportive of Turkey's EU membership bid.

[Melisandre]

"It is not remotely on the cards that Turkey is going to join the EU at any time soon," Cameron told ITV television

The same was said about Romania was nt it .