Disgusted Of Just Down The Road From Tunbridge Wells

[poliphilo]

Last night's EU Referendum broadcast on behalf of the Leavers was truly horrible- xenophobic, mendacious, cynical. Just nasty. My brain feels dirty from having watched it and my fingers feel dirty from writing about it. I believe they've lost my vote.

The campaign is nothing but a popularity contest between two lots of neo-liberals and, basically, I don't like any kind of neo-liberal- so I'm considering not voting at all. Ailz says I should show my disgust by spoiling my ballot paper.

Inside? Outside? I don't think it matters a whole lot. The EU is tottering and neo-liberalism with it. My vote goes to the incoming tide that'll sweep the whole lot away.

Comments

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

It matters a whole lot to Wales, so if you don't care which way you vote, please consider voting for Remain and the status quo. Here are just a couple of links about how positive it is for the poorest regions of the UK to be in the EU.

Hope this link to a map showing where EU aid goes works.

19 Things EU funding has done for Wales.

Sadly, I do not trust the Westminster government to keep up the same level of funding we have received from the EU due to being a deprived area. Why don't I trust them? I don't trust them because I'm old enough to remember what life was like in the regions prior to joining the EU. London is always having money lavished on it, the rest of the UK just suffers from cut after cut. Without the money we currently receive from the EU, Wales will just go backwards with regard to roads, education and other facilities.

[jfs.livejournal.com]

Well said Helen.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I'm wavering.

And I'll take these things into account.