[Margaret Pilkington]

I can't say.......but personally, I think that people have got just a bit fed up of the way the EU tells us we must tighten our belts, but spends stupid amounts of money.
The money they take from us is given to people who do not seem to have tightened their belts........in Greece it is/was possible to retire at 55(not sure if the recent events have changed this)...while some Lord or other is telling pensioners over here that they should work(in a voluntary capacity) in their own communities to earn their pension!

Pardom me for being so thick........I thought I contibuted throughout my working life to ensure I got the paltry pension that I draw.......our workers here are having their retirement date shifted on a regular basis......it maybe that some of them never live to draw their pension.

It is the insidious creeping rules and edicts that are issued from Brussels that make some of us feel like we didn't actually win the last war.......or might well not have bothered fighting it.
It is the fact that we follow the rules slavishly whilst other EU members seem to pick and choose which they will and won't follow....and no punishments are meted out to them.
It maybe the fact that we have been promised a say in our future in the EU and it has never materialised.
It could be any number of other facets of this undemocratic shambles that is causing these figures to be mooted......it may also be that people have told those who are canvassing for opinion, what they want them to know.
I just wish we had a leader with enough backbone and a pair of cojones to stand up to the mandarins in the EU and stick two fingers up to them.

Well Eric....you DID ask.