Poll: The Official OcUK EU Referendum Exit poll (and results discussion thread)

[Greebo]

I feel like we have voted leave for the wrong reasons. Old people trusting the government with their pensions and health care now trusting them with everything else. Laughable. I think we will live to regret it if this really happens

This. All the people where I live stated they were voting leave for two reasons. 1. closing our borders and sending everybody back home
2. That 350m will get spent on the nhs and our local hospital won't have to close down now.

Sadly the leave vote is going to do either of those two things.

 

[Naff8000]

"Nothing has actually changed overnight"

Check the pound price and the ftse opening.
We're dead.

 

[Gaygle]

That's it in a nutshell. Was the same with the Scottish referendum. There's so much lies and fear tactics by both sides and most voters don't really look into the issues in depth, so voting almost becomes like tossing a coin.

Quite.

And I think the leave nudged it because they were dealing with issues that were easier to understand and more emotive - immigration and full control over the running of the country.

The remainers were dealing with complex issues such as the economy, trade agreements and little known benefits that the EU brings which were a lot harder to understand if you didn't have a PhD in Economics or something.

 

[SciNeT]

Farage: June 23rd must become a national bank holiday and it will be called Independence Day

+1

 

[Sasahara]

Wow never expected it. Bet Farage is jizzing his pants this morning

And realising he's out of a job in a few years.

 

[deuse]

DC to make a speech at 8am

If he holds back on article 50 he will be voted out by his own party.
And Labour will vote in a new leader soon.

 

[NexusK]

Nah should be 24th as its a Friday so longer weekend. Besides we didn't know the result until the Friday.

This year yes but next year the 23rd is the Friday

 

[Metallifux]

Wow - wasn't expecting that when I went to bed. What a historic night, I'm pleased and so excited about the future. Whoever leads us going forward must respect this referendum result while at the same time acknowledge that 48% of voters wanted Britain to remain part of the EU. The whole country is worse off when you get huge swathes of the population who feel they aren't being listened to - we should never repeat that mistake.

I agree, the tables seem to have been turned though and it's the other half of the population who are complaining about not being listened to now. Taking Scotland out of the equation of course.

 

[thenewoc]

Like him or hate him a bloke who has never been an MP has made this happen, without Nigel Farage nipping at the heels of the establishment parties they'd have never given the vote in the first place.

Corbyn on the BBC at the moment, mixed feelings for him I'm sure as he had to lead his party in a way he didn't believe in! As for labour God knows what happens to them now they've totally lost any idea of what their core vote wants.

Poor sod took a virtual gut punch from Dimbleby whether he was now pro brexit, laughable.

 

[Mynight]

This year yes but next year the 23rd is the Friday

Ahhh what a fail lol.

Balls .

 

[Housey]

Why shame on those who didn't vote? Some of us are neutral. I don't mind either result and didn't vote. I could see positives and negatives of each.

Because most of them who didn't vote were not neutral, just couldn't be bothered.

 

[Seb5009]

 

[Troezar]

People need to be more optimistic. Who better to look after our interests than us? Too many people have tried to do down this country, the same country that has shaped the way the modern world is today. We have a lot of brilliant hard working people and in or out of the EU we've embraced those from abroad that want to help make Britain great. I can only see that continuing and going from strength to strength.

 

[Diddums]

Good. The sooner this whole Euro thing collapses and leaves each country for their own, the better.

 

[Witor]

Any idea if Gibraltar are going to go for independence from the UK?



This will be interesting.

Not a chance, no. Our very justifiable fear (from past events and current stance/rhetoric from the Spanish Government) is a Border Closure/restriction, which Spain can (and most probably will) apply with no issue.

Ironically the EU has done more to defend us than the UK has, certainly in my lifetime.

 

[sityeuropa]

If you want to blame anyone, blame the EU for their desperately increasing political union that did not want to listen.

The union was so out of touch.

 

[SS-89]

The uncertainty now following this vote is going to absolutely tank GDP growth. Foreign Direct Investment in the short term is bound to fall and capital flight from the UK is probably going to start soon once the Big money wakes up. It's going to be a tough few years, I really hope the vulnerable people who voted leave appreciate that the potential for a better future isn't going to happen any time soon.

 

[madindehead]

Now your move EU. They have to give in to what we want or watch as the rest of the EU tears itself to bits.

We want to leave. They don't really have to listen to demands.

 

[delta0]

Headlines on the frontpage of traders screens around the world this morning:

Spoiler

two years of talks in order to exit wow


Also bitcoin, thats up a lot now

I can see it being longer than 2 years but the EU will come to its senses quite quickly I suspect.

We want to leave. They don't really have to listen to demands.

That result ends with the EU losing badly. Watch as other countries leave. Continuing on with a stubborn attitude will get you no where. This is very much their fault.

 

[Azza]

Wonder if the Government will cut uni tuition fees in order to try and push skilled worker growth.