The EU Referendum: Polling Day

Rincewindle · 23 Jun 2016 at 14:50

This thread should probably be closed and locked..
Im sure the more inteligent of you on here will correct me if i am wrong.
But is it not against the electrol commision rules to publish an exit poll whilst the official polls are still open.
This thread is effectivly an exit poll as it is showing how other forum members have voted.
And therefore may influence how others vote.
And is that not against the rules ?

Glaucus · 23 Jun 2016 at 14:50

seems I moved to a civilised district, no stupid exit poll people. no posters, flags or anything else up by either side anywhere near polling station. a bit different from where I used to live.

ots3go · 23 Jun 2016 at 14:50

Burned_Alive said:
However, the general consensus seems to be that mortgage rates would go up if the result was leave, so that's a bit of a catch 22.

Mortgage rates rising means less spending from homeowners too, as disposable income drops, resulting in a lower GDP.

McstylisT · 23 Jun 2016 at 14:51

madindehead said:
Explain to me how leaving the EU will result in more affordable property prices...

Ok, less people plus addition of new builds going up around the uk. The rent economy demand drops, thus forcing owners to drop rent to keep the regular income. Then from that follows actual prices.

And before you say but people will loose money, the Next property they buy would have dropped just as much so the difference deficit is the same. No actual loss.

Imo

Judgeneo · 23 Jun 2016 at 14:51

voidshatter said:
It could be more affordable if a certain amount of deposit has been saved up to offset the increased rates of mortgage.

Mortgage rates might not even increase.

scorza · 23 Jun 2016 at 14:51

Woden said:
The only one that get to decide if the UK had a referendum, is the UK. The EU has zero say on this. Short of an EU army invading and occupying the country.

For now. It wouldn't surprise me if there was a ban on "populist" referenda in the next treaty.

Jonners · 23 Jun 2016 at 14:51

neil3k said:
voted out at 7am this morning

was surprised at the queue

Nice steady flow of People out voting at that time too. I'd say the majority looked like they had remain written all over their Face.

Their choice, their loss, but I don't want to listen when their choice fails them :rolleyes:

rawuk · 23 Jun 2016 at 14:51

Rincewindle said:
This thread should probably be closed and locked..
Im sure the more inteligent of you on here will correct me if i am wrong.
But is it not against the electrol commision rules to publish an exit poll whilst the official polls are still open.
This thread is effectivly an exit poll as it is showing how other forum members have voted.
And therefore may influence how others vote.
And is that not against the rules ?

Pretty sure a public forum thread on a gaming site wouldn't really be effected b those rules...?

platypus · 23 Jun 2016 at 14:52

Jaymond said:
At least those of us on the leave side, don't go scaremongering, or put fear in to others.

This is a complete lie.

Glaucus · 23 Jun 2016 at 14:52

TaKeN said:
I don't want it. It's £6000 ish a year, most of it goes to the wealthy big farms who know how to milk the system for it, whilst the poor struggling farms get their tiny bit.

You have to jump through hoops and fill endless forms for it too.

poor struggling farms should diversify rather than keep on moaning and struggling. So much opportunity for farmers to make a killing, yet only a small portion actually get up and change what they do.

gobbo · 23 Jun 2016 at 14:52

voidshatter said:
Less immigrants and less investors. Articles found by Google has a consensus that the property prices could drop if the result is a leave.

Immigrants are NOT responsible for high property prices. We are the ones who are guilty of it by not building enough houses and government policy.

House prices won't fall massively, it's in whatever government is in power to keep them high. Think of all those people with 80-90% mortgages, if house prices drop by 10%+ they will be in negative equity (or very close to being)

MoRT489 · 23 Jun 2016 at 14:53

Rincewindle said:
This thread should probably be closed and locked..
Im sure the more inteligent of you on here will correct me if i am wrong.
But is it not against the electrol commision rules to publish an exit poll whilst the official polls are still open.
This thread is effectivly an exit poll as it is showing how other forum members have voted.
And therefore may influence how others vote.
And is that not against the rules ?

You are correct (assuming the Rep of the People Act extends to referenda), I've flagged this already but it just gets lost in the myriad of abuse between platypus and McstylisT (and the other tit-for-tat comments of others). OCUK should really make the poll results invisible until 10pm when the polls close.

rawuk said:
Pretty sure a public forum thread on a gaming site wouldn't really be effected b those rules...?

“publish” means make available to the public at large, or any section of the public, in whatever form and by whatever means;

gobbo · 23 Jun 2016 at 14:54

Jaymond said:
Nice steady flow of People out voting at that time too. I'd say the majority looked like they had remain written all over their Face.

Nothing like a healthy bit of stereotyping there :rolleyes:

What does a "Remain" voter look like?

McstylisT · 23 Jun 2016 at 14:54

platypus said:
Oh dear. Such histrionics and scaremongering.

Do you need a cup of tea?

A cup of tea, why yes please.

It's the nicest thing you've ever contributed to the forums. Thank you

Errol · 23 Jun 2016 at 14:54

Glaucus · 23 Jun 2016 at 14:55

Jaymond said:
Nice steady flow of People out voting at that time too. I'd say the majority looked like they had remain written all over their Face.

Their choice, their loss, but I don't want to listen when their choice fails them

what rubbish.
and this is what i've noticed with the campaign. both official campaign bodies have been terrible.
but by and large on an individual level. its the leavers pushing scaremongering, lies and deceit.

and who says our choices will fail. how do you know what we want to happen.
and also who ever wins they will fail. not everything goes 100% our way in either case. just an absolutely stupid comment.

Nevakonaza · 23 Jun 2016 at 14:56

Deleted member 2277 said:
All people voting remain should be forced to house and feed 2 turks each when they start to flood into the country.

Haha,Could you imagine in after few months after staying in, our wonderful government said,Okay were taking in more "Economic migrants" and those with spare empty bedrooms need to take one in and give him shelter..

I know it wouldn't happen but,that would be funny.

Six6siX · 23 Jun 2016 at 14:56

Nevakonaza said:
Haha,Could you imagine in after few months after staying in, our wonderful government said,Okay were taking in more "Economic migrants" and those with spare empty bedrooms need to take one in and give him shelter..

I know it wouldn't happen but,that would be funny.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA SO FUNNY LOL

Freakbro · 23 Jun 2016 at 14:57

mmj_uk said:
So those with a good life and earning a decent wage want to keep the status quo whilst those struggling under Tory austerity who are low paid want change? I'm shocked. Oh wait, you were just insinuating that out voters are idiots, nvm.

And then the next post is....

McstylisT said:
Come on VOTE LEAVE !!!! Let's make Britain GREAT again. It's time for change !!!!!

Lots of admiration for fellow leavers. Your Country is proud of you.

Evidence based assumptions maybe?

sityeuropa · 23 Jun 2016 at 14:57

The pound/dollar is coming down a little bit now. Bit of a fight back.