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Is there really a strong anti-EU movement? Admittedly I don't really follow the nationals politics of the other member states, but at least from my position - living in one of the PIGS - what I see is mostly a movement against the Euro. I mean, sure, Merkel, Schäuble and Juncker are demonized quite a bit, but I think the argument is for improving the EU, not leaving it.

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In the 2015 UK general election, UKIP, whose main selling point is "UK should leave the EU" came third with 12.5% of the votes. That's a significant amount.

On my case in France (2012 election) if you do an addition of all the parties against the EU : Front National (want to go back to the Franc and do a poll for quitting the EU, ~18%), Front de Gauche (considering quitting the Union depending of the circonstances, ~11%).

So these + all the minor parties it's like 35% of votes more or less against the EU. This was back in 2012, it's currently probably higher.

In the UK, yes. The party in power (the conservatives) favour leaving the EU, and even those among them who supposedly favour staying will only do so with demands met they already know they won't get.

The population at large also support leaving, and when the referendum happens this summer, I will be surprised if this ship of fools doesn't vote to be cast adrift.

Have you got any sources on that? First of all I haven't met many people that favour leaving the EU. And what is the tory position on it? I thought they were in favour of a referendum but largely also in favour of voting to remain in the EU (at least Cameron supposedly is).

Nobody is against the EU except far-right political partys and their supporters. edit: so far left, too, sorry!

That's not entirely true though. There are a lot of leftists who oppose the EU because they believe it is to neoliberal, prioritizing the protecting of businesses rather than the interests of the people. At least that's the case here in Sweden, and I'd be surprised if we were unique in this aspect.

Over here in the Netherlands, that is not true. The SP (Socialist Party) is on the left end of the political spectrum and is pretty anti EU.

Political fringes of all colors are against EU by necessity. Their ideas and principles can't blossom otherwise.

In British politics the need to leave the EU ASAP unites both left and right.

I personally want out because of the Double Irish and the Dutch Sandwich. "Racist!" is the only argument the self-serving pro-EU movement have left, and no-one pays any attention to that word anymore.

The future of the UK lies where it always has, with the Commonwealth.

The leader of the British Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn is a Euro-Skeptic

https://theconversation.com/with-or-without-eu-jeremy-corbyn...

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