To be or not to be with EU
Cosmopolitan London and city's traditional fringes carry opposing views on EU membership
London
A 50-MINUTE Tube ride from central London, fishmonger Dave Crosbie is clear how he'll vote in the June referendum on European Union membership: He wants out.
Foreigners are taking Britain's jobs, he says, and its fish.
"If you want a bloke to lay the roads or whatever, there are plenty of people here who can't get a job, but they can bring in someone from the Continent who can do it for a third off," said Mr Crosbie, who's manned "The Better Plaice" stall in Romford Market since 1974, the year after Britain joined the now 28-member bloc. "They come over here, sleep six to a house and then they send the money back."
If there's one part of England that Prime Minister David Cameron can count on to support continued EU membership, it's cosmopolitan London, where YouGov plc found 58 per cent of the population back the "Remain" campaign. But on the easternmost fringes of the capital, the polling company ranks Havering, at the end of the District Line of the Tube, the Lond…
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