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Forums - Politics Discussion - Brexit discussion thread- UPDATE: the majority chose leave!

 

Should Britain stay or leave?

Stay! 185 48.43%
 
Leave! 197 51.57%
 
Total:382
Slimebeast on 24 June 2016
Soundwave said:
England will likely lose the UK as a result of this and that will probably be a bitter pill for them to swallow.

But these smaller European countries ... who's going to give a shit about them. As a global investor I don't want to deal with some weird Dutch currency or different trade rules in Denmark.

I might as well just invest more in China or India.

lol, lucky you aren't an investor then.

Did you know that Sweden has its own currency? And it has never been a problem to investors. Our economy is rock solid.



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SvennoJ on 24 June 2016
Hedra42 said:
SvennoJ said:

Indeed, this picture says it all


Now I wonder what percentage of each age group turned out to vote.
With an important decision like this with results this close, a re vote should be in order.

I posted most of these facts in response to that picture already:

First, there was no exit poll.

Second, this picture is extrapolated from a poll of 1652 people on 17th-19th June. And we all know the way VGChartz works. :P

Demographic polls showed the profile of a Remain voter was most likely a 24 year old female graduate living in Scotland, while the profile of a typical Leave voter was a 60 year old male skilled labourer living in East Anglia.

It wasn't so much the age of people but their distribution that was remarkable in this vote - the Remains were more or less all in London or in Scotland. Interestingly, the turnouts in Scotland were  67% which was below the average UK turnout of 72%, and significantly below the Scottish Independence referendum, when 84% turned out.

Lots of people didn't vote because they were rolling around in mud in Glastonbury. Lots of other people didn't vote because they were wading around their flooded homes.

Could Glastonbury and the bad weather have made a difference? If more Scottish voters turned out, would it have made a difference? If Northern Ireland, Wales or England had been playing in the Euro football that evening, would that have made a difference?

Who knows...

Yeah it says that in the picture, doesn't say how many were undecided, just excluded.
And for all your other reasons a re-vote should be in order. 72% turnout and a margin like that.

I wonder if Quebec is going to try again. In 1995 it was a similar close margin, yet in favor of staying. Except it's been going further down since, last year it was 64% in favor of staying. Perhaps if the UK had waited a bit it would have been the other way around.



Wyrdness on 24 June 2016

Not good for the financial sector, the GBP took a massive hammering today it's almost certain it won't be sorted out in 2 years, the movements I've seen today on the markets is scary for the UK. This may very well be the end of the Union if they go through with leaving the EU remember that despite the vote they can still decide not to if things don't go too well in the run up to it, Scotland may now break away to rejoin the EU and I wouldn't blame them tbh. What's worrying is how Farage already delivered a u-turn on the NHS which was one of the main pillars of the leave campaign now they've admitted it was a lie.



Dark_Lord_2008 on 24 June 2016

This is a great day for freedom and democracy for Britain and its people. Good riddance to the EU and the crooked old elite bankers running the EU in Brussels. Britain should decide what it is best for itself as a nation and decide its own future. Tighter border controls are needed to keep Britain safe and secure. Britain no longer has to pay to prop up debt riddled nations within the EU.



Random_Matt on 24 June 2016

So will this help Trump?



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LurkerJ on 24 June 2016



Just amazing. FU



AnthonyW86 on 24 June 2016
twintail said:
I understand that this guy has got some info right and that is great and all but your post of just a single msg makes it difficult for anyone to think otherwise.

 

SvennoJ said:
Soundwave said:

Well I will say this, looking at the exit polls it looks like it if was just people 65 or younger voting, the "Remain" side would've won fairly easily. 

It's people 65 and over that tilted the scales ... and I have to question whether or not people, many of whom are likely to be dead in 10-15 years have the right to change the future of a country that they won't be living in pretty soon. 

Indeed, this picture says it all


Now I wonder what percentage of each age group turned out to vote.
With an important decision like this with results this close, a re vote should be in order.

With an important decision people aged 18-24 shouldn't even be allowed to vote(maybe the limit shoud be as high as 30 years). If that were the case the results wouldn't have been close.

 

Also looking at those life expectancies i wouldn't take this graph to serious.



Peh on 24 June 2016
LurkerJ said:



Just amazing. FU

The 350 million a week is a plain lie. That's why no one should accept populists claims at face value:

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/reality-check/2016/may/23/does-the-eu-really-cost-the-uk-350m-a-week

 

Now, good luck with your lying, new, soon to be, prime Minister. I can see a bright future for the UK already.... 



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Goodnightmoon on 24 June 2016
LurkerJ said:



Just amazing. FU

Unbelievable

What a way to manipulate the population and what a great work they did. They are gonna regret so much is not even funny.



Wyrdness on 24 June 2016
Goodnightmoon said:

Unbelievable

What a way to manipulate the population and what a great work they did. They are gonna regret so much is not even funny.

That's only the beginning, a lot of their claims are either lies or misdirections of the truth, with in a year leave voters are going to start feeling gullible for believing this campaign when the situation ahead unfolds and the truth of what lies ahead starts coming to realization. The leave campaign have made UK look like Beyonce leaving Destiny's Child but we're much closer to Geri Halliwell leaving the Spice Girls.