Straw poll: Do you want to retain FOM?

mwpt

EDIT: I'm aware that the title of the thread does not match the subject of the poll. I am looking for votes from LEAVE voters only unfortunately.

This is a very quick straw poll to try to understand the minds of the leave voters around here. I'm told I need to do this so that we can move forward properly.

I've intentionally made the poll quite narrow and binary because I'd prefer to eliminate noise. For example, I didn't include a "don't care" option because this way it makes people make a decision.

If you don't understand the questions, again I have kept them quite simple. For the sake of this poll and argument, lets make a big assumption that we are getting everything else we might or might not want from the EU (single market access, no fees, free to ignore EU law, free to form own trade agreements). The question then boils down to one final condition which the EU has decided is optional for us to decide:

"Do we retain freedom of movement".

If you voted yes to retain it, would you mind explaining your reasons within the thread?

TrickyTree83

From my own small world perspective, yes, immigration doesn't affect me personally and I'd be happy to retain the ability to visit the EU as I please.

Masomnia

single market access, no fees, free to ignore EU law, free to form own trade agreements

In exchange for free movement sounds fair to me. On that basis I'd vote yes.

stator

I've voted No even though I would vote "Yes with limits on overall net migration"

missbiggles1

Definitely yes.

kabayiri

If I'm being selfish then I would vote Yes.

I think FoM exposes the primary weakness of Labour, which is an inability to understand the regional issues.

If FoM effectively kills off the Labour vote then this suits me fine. We could do with a move to the right.

Thrugelmir

mwpt wrote: »

The question then boils down to one final condition which the EU has decided is optional for us to decide:

"Do we retain freedom of movement".

The EU won't. As it's one of the four main core principles enshrined in the treaties. One only has had to follow recent events in Switzerland to understand the pressure that's applied.

mwpt

Thrugelmir wrote: »

The EU won't. As it's one of the four main core principles enshrined in the treaties. One only has had to follow recent events in Switzerland to understand the pressure that's applied.

That wasn't what I asked I'm afraid. There are other threads for you.

Thrugelmir

mwpt wrote: »

That wasn't what I asked I'm afraid.

You did ask a rather pointless question in that case I'm afraid.

Ronaldo_Mconaldo

Thrugelmir wrote: »

You did ask a rather pointless question in that case I'm afraid.

Yes, I do wonder why the OP really needs to know this and what difference it would make to them.

The_Last_Username

Ronaldo_Mconaldo wrote: »

Yes, I do wonder why the OP really needs to know this and what difference it would make to them.

Quite so.
I love these polls.
I wonder if perhaps it serves only to do what is so often done elsewhere in these forums: put what is expected will most-likely irritate the OP?
So will the poll results be seen as honest?
Or as a form of trolling?
As I said, like many of the posts in DT and "Debate ....." seem to be of late.