My father fought in a war. His father was wounded and his uncle was killed in the first world war. My mothers uncles all fought in the second world war, one of them was killed. Both my father and the surviving great-uncles were profoundly pro-European and supported the entry into the EU in the 70’s. My father is still with us and he will be voting to stay in the EU.
Please don’t assume that all veterans hold your point of view, many may well do, but not all.

Unnacented English?
Less intelligent …. “It just sounded if they weren’t” “Taught to speak properly”
Every person speaks with an accent. RP is an accent. You must try harder to hide your own prejudices about regional accents.

How is using announcers and reporters with regional accents dumbing down?

Are you implying that anyone who doesn’t use RP is less intelligent?

As to giving more air time to left wing speakers, presumably this was tacitly acknowledging that up to that point a right wing bias was prevalent, as is still the case to day in the media generally.

So, following that argument, as all but a tiny percentage of the EU migrants to this country are net contributers to the exchequer, they should be allowed to vote as well.

And I mine!:eagerness:

Pob is a vote loser
As I have stated before, the main problem that I see with Gove and that other bastion of truth and light that is IDS, is that they are willing, like Jeremy Hunt, to continue to ignore sound statistical and evidence based information that repudiates their position purely on ideological grounds. If that can do this with things that I have personal experience of and can recognise how the truth is ignored then how can I trust them on matters that I am less well versed in? Such as the Law.

And I wouldn’t be so certain to dismiss his remarks on the legal aspects of what has been agreed

OK, how about the Attorney General’s opinion?
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/governments-top-lawyer-slaps-down-gove-for-saying-eu-deal-could-be-overturned-a3187941.html

Regarding the OECD, If one is sure their research is alway correct, then of course one would have to endorse their opinions on migration:
http://www.oecd.org/migration/OECD%20Migration%20Policy%20Debates%20Numero%202.pdf

The stay in campaign does seem (up until now) to be based on fear. A little light on facts though.

The same is true for the leave campaign.

And I hope that Gove is given the lead part in the Leave campaign

So do I as he’ll frighten the waverers into the stay camp. His comments yesterday show he has some lack of understanding of the law, which is surprising for a Justice secretary. Oh, I forgot he has a 2:1 in English so is not a lawyer after all. However it appears at the moment that none of the usual suspects want to head up a leave campaign, not even Nige as far as I can tell. Which is the official campaign- has it been decided yet?

That statistic is about as reliable as their analysis of British State education.

We can at least agree on that! GIGO

Re: #6
None of it matters very much as it is quite simply opinion

In reply to the writer who asks the question “who governs Britain?”

The answer is that the elected British government governs Britain. The British government is elected by the electorate. As I said it is a fallacy to claim anything else.

In very simplistic terms, questions as to who governs a country may be diluted to whether it can define it’s own position in the world order and if it can unilaterally wage war to defend that position.

In both cases, it is possible for our elected government to make those decisions. Ergo it governs Britain

The very fact that the decision to hold a referendum and by its result a possible exit from the EU was made by this Governement shows it has ultimate sovereignty.

What percentage of UK law that is determined by EU statute is a very difficult one to answer figures between 10-50% can be justified according to this document-it all depends on the definition
https://fullfact.org/europe/uk-law-what-proportion-influenced-eu/