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muriel_volestrangler

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13. Get your big fight programme here! 4 months till the big day!

Sat Feb 20, 2016, 09:53 AM

Feb 2016

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/20/uk-in-europe-ins-outs-not-clears-tory-cabinet-eu

THE IN SIDE
Confirmed:
David Cameron
George Osborne, chancellor
Theresa May, home secretary
Justine Greening, development secretary
Greg Hands, chief financial secretary to the Treasury
Oliver Letwin, Cabinet Office minister
David Mundell, Scottish secretary
Sajid Javid, business secretary

Very likely in:
Philip Hammond, foreign secretary
Jeremy Hunt, health secretary
Nicky Morgan, education secretary
Patrick McLoughlin, transport secretary
Elizabeth Truss, environment secretary
Greg Clark, communities secretary
Stephen Crabb, Welsh secretary
Amber Rudd, energy secretary
Mark Harper, chief whip
Anna Soubry, business minister
Michael Fallon, defence secretary
Matthew Hancock, Cabinet Office minister

Not Clear:
Boris Johnson
Robert Halfon, Conservative deputy chairman

THE OUT SIDE
Confirmed out:
Michael Gove, justice secretary
Iain Duncan Smith, work and pensions secretary
Jeremy Wright, attorney general
Chris Grayling, leader of the House of Commons
Theresa Villiers, Northern Ireland secretary
Priti Patel, employment minister
Andrea Leadsom, energy minister
John Whittingdale, culture secretary

That looks like a good recipe for a split - a majority of leaders leaning to 'stay in', but with the grassroots of the party (the noisy part, anyway) and a significant number of leaders for 'leave'. Plus the siren call of Farage and his swivel-eye loons ...

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EU referendum: 'No progress' so far on Cameron's talks [View all] LeftishBrit Feb 2016 OP

Cameron is looking increasingly desperate. Bad Dog Feb 2016 #1

.... and, of course, the Right-Wing Propaganda Barons, who don't feel the EU benefits them ... non sociopath skin Feb 2016 #2

And in some cases don't even live in the EU, let alone in Britain.. LeftishBrit Feb 2016 #4

Even those that do don't pay their bloody taxes. Bad Dog Feb 2016 #5

One day, and quite possibly on this issue... LeftishBrit Feb 2016 #3

I remember the Guardian running a joke feature as Boris as a potential Tory leader. Bad Dog Feb 2016 #6

Boris Johnson - The UK's Donald Trump? non sociopath skin Feb 2016 #7

I think that honour probably goes to Nigel Farage LeftishBrit Feb 2016 #8

Depends on what you see as his defining feature. Bad Dog Feb 2016 #9

Very true! LeftishBrit Feb 2016 #11

Unanimous support for UK-EU deal - Tusk muriel_volestrangler Feb 2016 #10

I want to stay in Yerp. Bad Dog Feb 2016 #12

Get your big fight programme here! 4 months till the big day! muriel_volestrangler Feb 2016 #13

And there's two different groups vying to lead the no campaign. Bad Dog Feb 2016 #14

So if I vote Remain I am siding with Oliver Letwin and Jeremy *unt... LeftishBrit Feb 2016 #15

It's going to be a dreadful campaign T_i_B Feb 2016 #16

Agree LeftishBrit Feb 2016 #17

I honestly don't think that the US would be interested in taking on another offshore tax haven. non sociopath skin Feb 2016 #24

It will be interesting to see how turnout pans out in the referendum. Denzil_DC Feb 2016 #18

I'm sure a lot of them will be taken as gospel, no matter how ridiculous. Bad Dog Feb 2016 #19

My inclination with major changes like these Denzil_DC Feb 2016 #26

No money to be made betting on this result. Bad Dog Feb 2016 #27

In 1974, it was 65%, compared with 73% in Oct 74 GE, and 76% in 79 GE muriel_volestrangler Feb 2016 #20

In 1974 we'd only been in five minutes. Bad Dog Feb 2016 #21

Newsthump: Michael Gove, Nigel Farage and George Galloway team up to put people off voting to leave LeftishBrit Feb 2016 #22

No matter what your politics Bad Dog Feb 2016 #23

"backed by the Daily Express, which is just the cherry on top of the cake, really" muriel_volestrangler Feb 2016 #25