"Nightjar" wrote in message
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On 02/05/2014 14:36, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 02/05/14 14:00, Nightjar wrote:
I can't see that wanting to leave the EU can be driven by anything other
than xenophobia. There is certainly no good basis for leaving.

What an extraordinary statement.

Extraordinary in terms of everything everybody else is saying on BOTH
sides of the argument.

There are very good reasons to leave and some good ones to stay. None of
them are xenophobic.

I don't consider any of the reasons advanced for leaving to be good
reasons,

Irrelevant to whether they are in fact good reasons anyway.

which only leaves not liking foreigners having a say in what we do.

More accurately, preferring the locals to be the
ones that decide what should should be done.

Oddly enough that is what democracy is about.

You seem to think leaving the EU is somehow akin to leaving Europe and
Europeans and building an invisible wall of prejudice round the country
and pretending to be N Korea.

I can't help but feel that is exactly what Nigel Farage would like to do.
I don't trust him. I don't trust his motives.

You are welcome to your opinion on that.

You are not however welcome to
claim that he can not be trusted.

I certainly don't trust him to tell us anything other than what he thinks
people want to hear. Probably the only politician I have ever trusted less
is Tony Blair.

Again, some clearly feel otherwise.