Referendum leaflets

I've received my leaflet and i'm going to post it to the conservative party foundation which has a freepost address. there are loads of posts about it on facebook. I understand that many, many people are going to do it.

my daughter cannot understand how the price of £9 million can be justified - I agree with her.

what a waste of time, money and energy - it has not gone any way to change my "out" vote.

I will be using my postal vote - registered for this years ago.

You can return the booklet to the House of Commons addressed to your MP with no stamp. If you send it to No 10 with no stamp the post office will destroy it if No 10 refuses to pay the postage (double, I think), which they will.

I just wonder what over £9 million could have paid for, how many operations, hip and knee replacements, heart operations, cataract laser treatments, cancer drugs and treatments, meningitis vaccines, the list is endless.
But any one of them would have definitely been far better value, but then so would spending our EU contributions on our own country.

This week an MEP had written in one of the newspapers telling it as it is, and how money is wasted!

But another kick in the guts, large multi national companies have complained to the EU courts that our tax system has made them pay too much tax......and the EU judges have agreed, and ordered we refund billions in tax! Who exactly is in charge?

Yes why don't we all post the booklets back, if you think the 9 million was wasted, why not waste even more (freepost costs someone). If you are not interested in it, just bin it. Otherwise read it, we would be complaining that we weren't informed if we didn't get it.

It's helping to keep my postman in a job though!

I haven't got a leaflet/booklet yet ( not complaining though.)

Still not arrived.
We are beginning to feel left out.

Ours came today, shame we don't have an outside netty

I am still undecided as to how to vote - though I don't respect or trust most of the spokespersons for the Out Campaign.

Although the impression might be given, with the funding of these leaflets, that the dice is loaded in favour of the In Campaign, I'm not sure it's a fair impression. As Matthew Wright said on his programme, the vast majority of newspapers are carrying many articles and opinion pieces in support of the Out Campaign so in that sense the Out Campaign has from the outset received far more media support and continues to do so.

Still, I don't think many people will have considered that point so I feel that sending out these leaflets might turn out to be a bit of a PR disaster.

Wales and N.I. Are not having them delivered until after our May elections

A friend gave me an address to return this expensive ,ridiculous brochure. so that the Conservative Party have to pay -as opposed to the taxpayer.
30 Millbank London SW1P 4DP .

It arrived today, tucked in with a load of other junk, nearly threw it away unread.
We did read it ( have to get our money's worth after all) but found it bland, boring and full of pics.Then it got thrown away.

I've just read the booklet which arrived at the holiday cottage we are renting.
Ahem, ....... I open the first page and see a picture of a calendar with june 2016 with a small J and all the days of the week starting with small letters!!! I know it's not a booklet about education, but you'd think a government which bangs on about raising standards in literacy would at least choose to show the dates in their correct form.
It has really annoyed me and my undecided has now swung to "Out" yes, with a capital O!

I posted on the government fb page and told them they had done a great job in helping to achieve the opposite of what they want, great booklet NOT.

Lillie, I think the decision to stay in or leave is somewhat more important than a grammatical error.

think that Lillie may possibly have been joking [unless you put a grin on with a post not many people seem to get a joke on here.]

She may well have been joking, but far too many seem more concerned about this leaflet than the subject itself. For our children & grandchildren this is the most important decision that we will have to make for many years. We get one chance at this, not like a general election where we get another chance in a few years.

The decision to stay or leave is critical, but getting unbiased information is quite impossible. Neither side really know what might happen because no-one has done this before. We are groping in the dark. Crazy!

... and the wrong choice may be made [whichever way it goes] but a bit of badinage about the leaflets is neither here nor there IMHO.Plus it was lot of money for a poor product.

You are right Lucky girl, getting unbiased facts will be impossible, simply because there are too many variables even for the most informed, unbiased expert to predict. Most of the population are unlikely to understand all the implications, will have to vote with their heart and live with the consequence.
I am not even in favour of a referendum, we voted in a government to make these decisions, would be happy for them to make it for me.

In fairness this thread is entitled "Referendum leaflets". There is another thread on the pros and cons of leaving the EU.
Was it not in the Tory manifesto that there would be a referendum on the EU if they won the last election.
In 1975 we joined the EEC as the result of a referendum.
Did anyone watch the Nick Robinson programme on the history of Britain's entry into the EEC. Very interesting. What a b...ard D'Gaulle was.

We received a copy of the leaflet, read it and sent it on to No. 10. In my mind a waste of 9 million pounds. More money, is it 6 or 7 million will be available to the out brigade. What we need on this is unbiased debate so that we are able to make our decision on referendum day. Cloud cuckoo land springs to mind.

I agree, I think it was a silly idea to have a referendum, as not many people will fully understand the ramifications of staying or leaving. However, it was in the conservatives manifesto, so I reluctantly agreed to it, and will have to accept it without complaint. Both sides are very persuasive, so who to believe?!!! I simply don't know as there are valid reasons for both camps! I've got the booklet on the table by my chair, as it cost so much perhaps I'd better look at it!!!!

Having worked in manufacturing, with multinational companies all my working life, I am sure that the EU will be the best for British industry (and therefore jobs). But as far as the economy, immigration etc., I don't have a clue.

I am with pompa here on the referendum - it is a bit of political window dressing that allows the government to cop out and say that it was "the voice of the people" when something goes wrong whichever way the decision goes - "It wasn't me guv."

Asking people to vote in something that the majority knows little about is a complete nonsense. It leaves the way clear for nutters to vote for atavistic tribal reasons, particularly in relation to immigration.

No-one knows what the outcome of leaving might be as no country has yet done so. What I do know is the the EU is a massive gravy train and that sticks in my craw.

I absolutely agree with you Luckygirl, assuming you say,the government can hide behind the ' will of the 'people' in answer to all its future woes!! Also I think it is quite alarming to think that people who actually wish this country harm, nutters of one sort or another, the prejudiced for no other reason than they hate the government, and the ill informed, which is probably a lot of people! will all be voting in something that is so important. I too hate the gravy train and the smug self important people on it, Kinnock and Mandelson come to mind!!! My instincts tell me that we should stay in for fear of something worse, but I'm not happy with it.