The EU - we are on the home straight folks!

"Bananas have always been classified by quality and size for international trade. Because the standards, set by individual governments and the industry, were confusing, the European Commission was asked to draw up new rules.

Commission regulation 2257/94 decreed that bananas in general should be “free from malformation or abnormal curvature”. Those sold as “extra class” must be perfect, “class 1” can have “slight defects of shape” and “class 2” can have full-scale “defects of shape”.

Nothing is banned under the regulation, which sets grading rules requested by industry to make sure importers – including UK wholesalers and supermarkets – know exactly what they will be getting when they order a box of bananas."

It's so the industry knows what it is buying/selling. Boris actually made up the banana thing when he was writing as the Brussels correspondent for the Telegraph, saying that it was Brussels that stopped them being sold.
Once again he is telling lies to get your vote.

It sounded as though ab was implying that all people concerned about immigration are racist. I agree that some are, but not the majority. It's the number, not the ethnicity of the people arriving here.

Are you seriously claiming that some people 'concerned' about immigration aren't racists/xenophobes?

rosesarered many of us are extremely anxious about the effects of an Exit. Please forgive us if we get a teeny bit tetchy. Because I for one am very worried that an Exit will tip us into a recession which could last a long time. It is not as if the UK economy is in robust health at the moment. The last thing people need is more job losses and more austerity because the tax coming into the exchequer falls, as it did in 2010. And of course for older people more austerity means less spent on the
NHS, social care and other things we will all rely on sooner or later if we last long enough.
Virtually every respectable economic forecasting unit, along with virtually every respected economist in the world is predicting at best a short recession if we leave.
Do you think that perhaps, even if leaving the EU is an ideal long-term goal, this is not the right time to take this huge risk.

You just can't help yourself, can you? Concern about immigration = 'racism' to you. Why?

A chap who works in Westminster called to see me today. There are worries that the out lot are now ahead, they were lagging untill they decided to pump up the racist concerns,

Sorry meant immigrant concerns, I don't know how to put that line through a word, just as well because it is used so the posters can be sure the crossed through words can be read

Rosesarered, what workers rights before the seventies? Men paid more than women even doing the same job. Little health and safety, no restrictions on the hours a lorry driver could drive

You msy not have heard about bananas, Boris spoke of then twice in less than 30 seconds, he put it forward as another reason to leave the EU

LOL Daphne ;)

I'm not implying anything about those who want to leave, apart from when their so-called 'facts' are plainly wrong (which they often are).

You must have missed the comments about bananas - there were some!

Workers' rights before the 1970s were nothing like the rights today.

Of course, but... Who cares about bananas, I have read nothing on Gransnet about complaints of fruit.We had workers rights before the EU, what else are trade unions for.

Surely employment, workers rights, the environment etc are important , far more important than bananas Rosesarered

At what stage do you not post information, because it may point to some trend or other. The poll with the different age groups, showing who is voting IN or OUT - does seem to indicate older people are more OUT than IN (sounds a bit like my teatowel with the rules of cricket)- if that makes them sound set in their ways/stuck in the past ... then ?

The thing is, because the Remain voters ( on here) may feel passionate about their case, so equally, do the Leave voters.So implying that they are weird/ ill considered/ racist/set in their ways/ living in the past/ low intellect ( all these things have been either implied or stated openly) is not only the height of rudeness, but smacks of desperation, of having run out of things to say.How about stating your views and leaving it at that?

No, not boring at all.....it would be rather nice, not that I expect it.

It would be boring if you had it all your own way, though, roses.
I didn't agree it was getting unpleasant. Where did I say that?
It's a politics thread.
Since when were you too polite to say we needed our heads examining? You actually just said so, obliquely, so that we would have no right to be offended.

His speech was as wishy washy as usual.

Djen your near adulation of Corbyn is hilarious.

So, you agree it's all getting unpleasant then Djen ? As it happens, I am not the only one to have noticed it, nothing to do with 'stirring' just being surprised ( can't think why)
At the sneering remarks ladled out right , left and centre by some posters on here.
By all mean air your views, but keep the sneery stuff to yourselves is my message.

Lots of flooding in France and Germany. Hope it's nowhere near those on here who live there.

This is where cooperation could come in useful.

You could always stay on the other thread, roses, and not look at this one if your sensibilities are so easily offended.
But you wouldn't be able to stir it then. You've said the same thing on both threads. Make sure you do not get mixed up.

Jalima, it was the Tory government who said we are all in this together, specifically Cameron, not Corbyn.
There is no reason for Corbyn to agree with Cameron's reasons for staying in. Cameron couldn't care less about workers rights.

You would think so Jalima.... But not on here, the comments are all of the ' the other side need their heads looking at' type of comments, because anyone who supports the Leave campaign, in their view is bonkers, ( we may think the same of them) but are too polite to say so.

They are basically talking to two very different groups of people.
but aren't we all in this together?
Or out as the case may be

This is a good summary of Corbyn's speech this morning, and reasons why he asks us to vote to remain, yet will not be seen on a platform with Cameron.
They are basically talking to two very different groups of people.

www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2016/jun/02/eu-referendum-live-cameron-and-corbyn-make-the-case-for-remain-separately?page=with:block-57500545e4b03b568f2bf7e2#block-57500545e4b03b568f2bf7e2