After what feels like a lifetime, we move into the final weeks of this EU referendum campaign. A quick peek at the calendar only gives us five weeks until the vote and all the talk of long campaigns and attention deficits feels pushed to one side, as we flip into rushes for the line, tales […]
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With the passing of the local/regional elections last week, the EU campaign is now in full swing, as witnessed by the near-constant stream of media events, speeches and the unveiling of assorted ‘battle buses’. That has also been reflected in the social media campaigning. Last week’s damping down of interest appears to have been reversed, […]
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Last night we held our referendum question time event, with myself and colleagues from across the University, to try and provide some illumination on the questions that people are grappling with. We have got some audio, which I’ll try to upload later on (assuming the quality is good enough). Rather than reprise the questions, I […]
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This week has been another quiet one on the EU campaign trail, with the combination of the bank holiday, Leicester’s famous triumph in the football and the various elections that happened yesterday. Of the groups we follow, only Labour Movement for Europe made any reference to these elections, primarily to mobilise their supporters to turn out […]
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Earlier this week, I was quoted in a Daily Telegraph piece about Grassroots Out (GO). The article had noted that ten seeming-offshoots of the group had been registered with the Electoral Commission as participants in the referendum campaign. If the Commission were to consider them as separate, then taken together they would be free to […]
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The EU referendum has always had to deal with one significant issue: time. Until February this year, no one knew exactly when the vote would take place, other than before the end of 2017. As a consequence, campaign groups had to set up early and run on contingent plans that could be adjusted on the […]
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