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Not for long. As a continental European, I'd be quite surprised if the UK voted to stay in the EU in the 2017 referendum. There is just so much hatred for the

Not for long. As a continental European, I'd be quite surprised if the UK voted to stay in the EU in the 2017 referendum. There is just so much hatred for the EU coming out of the UK that by now, its leaving almost seems a forgone conclusion.

Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
As a Brit (English, living in Scotland), I'd say that there is a way to go before that and would make two points: 1) there is only one party promising that referendum and they're behind in the polls 2) current polls say that we'd vote to stay (http://yougov.co.uk/news/2014/06/17/eu-referendum-record-lead/ http://yougov.co.uk/news/2014/06/17/eu-referendum-record-lea...), even before any renegotiation. There are other polls which have said otherwise but YouGov provide an on-going tracker which I think shows that, while the level of support has changed, broadly we still support EU membership. Obviously all very uncertain (and until a couple of weeks ago polls were sure Scotland would stay in the UK) but I'd say that you shouldn't confuse the volume of some of the negative views on Europe with them being a consensus - most people are quietly happy with the status quo.