David Cameron says vote to leave is IMMORAL

The Prime Minister faced a backlash from members of his own Government, including threats of resignations, after he gave warning that leaving the European Union would be the “self-destruct option” for Britain, and that the “moral case” at the referendum was to stay in the EU.

Speaking at the head office of B&Q in Hampshire, Mr Cameron said that, given these risks to the British economy, a Remain vote was the “moral” choice for voters.

He said: “The economic case is the moral case – for keeping parents in work, firms in business, Britain in credit, the moral case for providing economic opportunity rather than unemployment for the next generation.

“Where is the morality for putting that at risk for some unknown end? It would be like surviving a fall then running straight back to the cliff edge. It is the self-destruct option.”

Mr Osborne, standing next to the Prime Minister, took direct aim at senior Tory Brexiteers for allowing less well-off voters to take the hit of Britain leaving the EU. He said: “To those fellow politicians who say we should vote to leave I’d say this: you might think the economic shock is a price worth paying.

“But it’s not your wages that will be hit, it’s not your livelihoods that will go, it’s not you who’ll struggle to pay the bills. It’s the working people of Britain who will pay the price if we leave the EU.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/23/eu-referendum-david-cameron-and-george-osborne-warn-brexit-would/

So this referendum is all about scaremongering, hitler, WW3, recession, and now this. What the next election would be like?

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Reply 1

Platopus

Either side calling it a moral issue seems a little excessive to me :/

Reply 2

chemting

First holidays, now morality.

Whilst the other side invoked Godwin's law of the highest level...

The referendum has become a joke...

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Reply 3

HucktheForde

Original post by chemting

First holidays, now morality.

Whilst the other side invoked Godwin's law of the highest level...

The referendum has become a joke...

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Democracy = populism.

Its all about who can smear each other better.

reference : Donald Trump

Reply 4

Olie

It's becoming a bit of a joke now, and both sides are to blame with these ridiculous, desperate statements and scaremongering, how stupid do they think the British public are?

Reply 5

chemting

Original post by HucktheForde

Democracy = populism.

Its all about who can smear each other better.

reference : Donald Trump

Good point.

In a referendum as well, this is very direct.

Lol fair enough, I'd say Hillary Clinton too, she hasn't held back at Bernie (and Trump). If anything, this referendum is just an indication of how the general is going to be in the US.

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Reply 6

CuriosityKTMC

I feel like the leave campaign are doing their best to help the remain cause, and the remain are really helping the leave. It is insane.

Reply 7

chemting

Original post by HucktheForde

What the next election would be like?

More of this. Tbf, it would be very entertaining if it wasn't sad.

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Reply 8

M14B

In my opinion Cameron has lost the plot

Reply 9

Serine Soul

When did the Tories ever care about morals???

Reply 10

chemting

Original post by Serine Soul

When did the Tories ever care about morals???

When its time to one-up your political enemies :tongue:

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Reply 11

username1921011

Cameron can f**k off.

I dont think i need to add anything to that really.

Reply 12

Studentus-anonymous

TIL caring about democratic accountability and wanting better for the UK than the malfunctioning EU as it stands = immoral.

What a time to be alive.

But FYI 'Dave', I have never needed a single lesson on morality from an Eton toff.
Take a hike. :biggrin:

Reply 13

IAMADAM27

I love David Cameron. He's much better than Commie Corbyn... Bloody socialists!!!!

Reply 14

hellodave5

Original post by Studentus-anonymous

How would there be improved democratic accountability?

Reply 15

Miss Maddie

The immoral vote is staying in Europe and handing control of Britain over to Germany and eurocrats. The brave soldiers who fought during WWII are turning in their graves.

Reply 16

Betelgeuse-

Original post by CuriosityKTMC

I feel like the leave campaign are doing their best to help the remain cause, and the remain are really helping the leave. It is insane.

Politicans and politics suck balls

Sneaksy fats hobbitses trying to manipulate the peasants

Pig porking necrophiliac telling 50% of his plebs you are immoral if you dont secure my PM position and future +250k PA cushy job inside the EU

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Reply 17

Exceptional

It's irritating that each side never says anything positive about the other. Everything is coated in bias. I'd much rather watch a debate where each side is sensible, giving the pros and the cons. It's deluding the majority of the public. There are cons to staying, there are cons to leaving - but you rarely hear Nigel Farage or David Cameron say anything negative about the sides they represent.

Reply 18

Studentus-anonymous

Original post by hellodave5

How would there be improved democratic accountability?

In the UK parliamentary system we elect the legislators whom pass our laws.

In the EU we elect advisors to an advisory body with no legislative powers.

In the UK the Prime Minister, by convention the leader of the governing party, is an elected MP of the House of Commons.

In the EU the commission and the council of Europe are appointed, and hold legislative as well as executive primacy other EU affairs.

Hope that helped.
I'd lean more to remaining in if the EU myself, if it was a democratic institution, but if I may paraphrase the Americans, no legislation without representation.