You are overlooking Obama's presidency, Germany winning the World Cup, Labour winning the London mayoral election, Greece and the EU working out a deal etc etc :smile:
Why don't you now make a comment about me not living in the uk and we can be done for the day.
This seems like you're weaselling out of your statement. You can't portray a forecast as a fact. Only an idiot needs to be told a forecast isn't a fact.
As someone who understands statistics, expectation, probability and outcome making predictions isn't absurd at all. But you have to treat it with due and appropriate caution. You seem to confuse expectation with exact outcome. You could also do with looking up the definition of key opinion...
No. We listen to the arguments, listen to who they are from, we appreciate they are all forecasts (FFS), and decide what we think, on balance, is best. It really is this simple. We are not stupid. I think I am very well placed to make an informed decision, my decision, on the EU. In fact because...
One should also be aware of the fact the EU funds research into medical areas which companies do not look into due to lack of return. One area I have been directly involved with is paediatric epilepsy. Children with this condition in Europe have benefitted enormously from the EU.
To say the LSE is influenced simply because somewhere along the line, like many academic establishments, they receive EU funding is utter nonsense. They also receive funding from numerous other sources. Do you really think the academics at Cambridge or Oxford, worldwide respected academic...