(11 Apr 2016, 6:17 pm)Adrian wrote To be honest, I think it's wrong that the civil service is being used to promote a vote. I'm decided on an in vote now, but I think it should be up to political parties to do the campaigning.
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Whilst I agree on the Civil Service not being used - I don't think the parties (as we know them) can be used, if only because there would be a huge split in each of them.
I do think the non-party line that is being used (some campaugn groups including MP's from both sides of the fence) is the way forward.
Hopeully this leads to a decision in June, that isn't based on those traditionally favoured by a political party.
I am out.
Not because I am tory or ukip (the traditional anti-EU parties), but because of my socialist principles - of which many don't tie in with the current EU position.
These include TTIP, austerity, privisation legislation, the whole Greece debacle, anti-trade union laws, the common fisheries policy etc. The list goes on.
However, a number of tories and ukippers want to be out for totally different reasons.
By aligning myself with more public faces (or certainly ones that are in the mainstream), if only because I want the same outcome, I am potentially putting a divide between myself and others socialists who want to stay in.
However, it could be argued that those socialists who want to stop in, are marginalising themselves from groups (and unions), who want to be out.
If Labour as an example said that they have a party line. Imagine the infighting? Imagine those unions who want to stay in and their public spats with those who want to be out?
The decision (in my opinion), must be made away from the traditional 'tow the party line', for those reasons.