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Ab 24th June 2016 13:03

#brexit motherbitches
 
Early days yet, but right now...

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Leave has 53.1% of votes counted so far
wow.

blynk 24th June 2016 13:15

Very early days, 39/382.

It started off with remain in the lead

Lightspeed 24th June 2016 13:17

London will pull the stay side through.

Ab 24th June 2016 14:37

16.5 (million) required to win

currently (rough guess, a third of the way through counting):

Leave 6.95
Remain 6.58

Heyzoos 24th June 2016 14:41

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Originally Posted by Lightspeed
London will pull the stay side through.


Deadmeat 24th June 2016 15:11

half a million votes ahead, big hill to climb for remain

Ab 24th June 2016 15:14

Over halfway

Leave 10.8
Remain 10.2

blynk 24th June 2016 15:16

These are one of those referendums when you would think they should have to get 66% of the vote to change status quo.

crocos 24th June 2016 15:22

It's a non-binding referendum, so even if it was 66%... <shrug>

Deadmeat 24th June 2016 15:46

media calling brexit

ZoSo 24th June 2016 15:53

Grats to the poms.

blynk 24th June 2016 16:04

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Originally Posted by crocos
It's a non-binding referendum, so even if it was 66%... <shrug>

Oh I see. I didn't realise that.
Well this will be interesting, it's so close. Will they go with it. Obviously I haven't paid that much attention to it, so who has the final decision. Is it parliment, or a panel of people?

Juju 24th June 2016 16:06

SNP will be stoked

Ab 24th June 2016 16:21

Leave leading by over a million now. It's going to fucking happen.

Savage 24th June 2016 16:37

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Originally Posted by Ab
Leave leading by over a million now. It's going to fucking happen.

Cameron as good as gone.

Value of the Pound dropping through the floor.

Gold price/ounce just shot up through the roof.

I would hate to see what will happen if Cameron and the incumbent govt decide they're not going to go with the referendum results.

Ab 24th June 2016 16:40

Scotland's going to lose its fucking mind.

BoyWonder 24th June 2016 16:42

I wonder if Scotland would like another crack at their referendum now?

Savage 24th June 2016 16:42

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Originally Posted by Ab
Scotland's going to lose its fucking mind.

Fucken oath.

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Originally Posted by BoyWonder
I wonder if Scotland would like another crack at their referendum now?

Yeah this has been brought up in the office too; it's not entirely unfeasible that they would leave the UK and negotiate to join the EU instead.

Ab 24th June 2016 17:28

And then Wales? Northern Ireland?

Ab 24th June 2016 17:35

Check this shit out:


Lightspeed 24th June 2016 17:46

Welp. :(

Just what the world needs, more disconnection.

Ab 24th June 2016 17:48

See this is why democracy sucks.

fixed_truth 24th June 2016 18:46

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The point for me is this though; A university professor of 12 years, what has got an actual PhD, specialising in European constitutional law and the relationship between the EU and its member states, specifically the UK, the single market and the free movement of people has said its a fucking shit idea to leave the EU.

Surely that's enough then? Let's agree with him, surely? He probably knows what's chong and what's not chong.

I mean I know you've got a BTEC in sports science and, yeah... sure, your lass has got her level 1 hairdressing certificate and you both went to Tossa De Mar once for holiday but his points seem to come across better than yours somehow. Like, his arguments are built around solid premises and formulated on numbers and research and shit whereas yours are like "Yeah well The Sun says all black people are wankers, so..."
https://www.facebook.com/BhunaBhuna/...53758422443214

Ab 24th June 2016 19:35

Cameron falls on his sword:

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/...e_iOSApp_Other

CCS 24th June 2016 19:42

Boris! Boris! Boris!

Lightspeed 24th June 2016 20:41

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Originally Posted by Ab
See this is why democracy sucks.

It may be contemporary democratic institutions are out of date. I wonder if some kind of swarm intelligence would be an improvement.

Ab 24th June 2016 21:03

Is that you, Nahaz? And you want me to... drink?

Delphinus 24th June 2016 23:22

Should be some sort of vote weighting for decisions like this (and climate change etc) based on your age.

crocos 25th June 2016 09:59

Little bit more than just age; the most telling demographic seems to be education. Here's The Guardian's breakdown:
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/...s-and-analysis

I suppose it is people's democratic right to be sheep for the xenophobic demagogues.

sidbo 25th June 2016 10:49

lol
 
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-a7099906.html

Fucking lol.

crocos 25th June 2016 10:53

Talks well, but with what he's saying? What a fucking tosser.

sidbo 25th June 2016 11:50

https://twitter.com/Delahuntagram/st...rc=twsrc%5Etfw

Deadmeat 25th June 2016 16:06

Headline seen on NZHerald... "How brexit may affect GoT"

cyc 25th June 2016 22:39

Newsflash: It's just a bunch of uneducated, dumb, retired, out-of-work, and xenophobic white rednecks of babyboomer age and up doing their level best to ruin the world.

.... like it's happening almost everywhere.

Sigh :(

spigalau 26th June 2016 11:37

^ Best definition of Labour party ever...

Ab 26th June 2016 14:09

“what has the EU ever done for us?” asks Mensa candidate standing in previously-ruined town rebuilt by EU money

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...eave-ebbw-vale

Ab 26th June 2016 14:12

If you were actually wondering how this happened, here's the answer:

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Percentage of eligible voters who actually turned out to vote, by age group:

18-24: 36%
25-34: 58%
35-44: 72%
45-54: 75%
55-64: 81%
65+: 83%

(source: @SkyData)
In other words, the same as always

crocos 26th June 2016 18:10

That's partially true, but not the only significant measure:
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Originally Posted by crocos
Little bit more than just age; the most telling demographic seems to be education. Here's The Guardian's breakdown:
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/...s-and-analysis


ZoSo 26th June 2016 18:16

https://dimpost.wordpress.com/2016/0...d-brexit-post/

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I’ve been pretty unimpressed with the state of left-wing ‘analysis’, which mostly consists of a single inchoate sneer of petulant, elitist rage at the stupidity of the ignorant, racist voters for not voting the way their intellectual superiors told them to. There was obvious glee at the panic in the financial markets, which are suddenly an arbiter of left-wing political wisdom, somehow. Countless claims that the moronic Leave voters didn’t understand what they were voting for, and now regretted it, which is not borne out post-referendum opinion polls which indicate strong sustained support for their decision. Anti-democratic arguments that because the young voted Remain, the Leave votes of older voters were somehow invalid, even though turnout among young voters was abysmal.
...

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One thing I do know about politics is that when you lose you need to figure out why, and figure out where and how you went wrong; not just throw a sustained tantrum and change nothing.
Danyl for leadership of the hapless left.

crocos 26th June 2016 23:06

Glenn Greenwald weighing in on Brexit and Trumpism
https://theintercept.com/2016/06/25/...-institutions/


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