Anyone Voting in the Catalan Referendum?

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Just turned over onto the news afyer watching Grand Prix, and cops are firing rubber bullets at people. Is anyone there and enjoying events?
 
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I'm just amazed by it all, just as ETA finally hang up their guns, it's properly kicking off over there. The central government have sent in 1000s of riot police to seize control of as much of the voting stations as they can. Could descend back into and much worse violent "troubles" as a result.
 
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They should have let them have their vote with safe guards to stop vote rigging on both sides. They really have made a mess of it, looks like a lot of trouble with be triggered.
 
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Yes it is fascinating, good to see international observers there, the first thing they see is the rubber bullets hitting people
 
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Spanish central government couldn't have got this more wrong to be honest. The violence shown by the police on what was a well behaved crowd was pretty shocking.
 
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The firmly anti-EU ANO party in the Czech Republic are now in the lead in the forthcoming elections, The EU must be twitching as the whole thing is simply slowly being unwound.
All over Europe things are turning round, might take a few years but the EU is finished.
 
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One of the estimates had suggested that 60% or more of the population would turn out to vote in the region.
Has anyone seen any expectations or estimates for how the vote would have actually developed?

I am somewhat amiss as to why there was such opposition to a non-binding referendum in the first place. It at least lets you the situation and the % you are dealing with going forward.
 
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Strange how the Catalan Govt. are saying if they get a Leave vote they will declare Independence in 48 hours, we are told it's a never ending process of 5 years at the bare minimum.
 
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Strange how the Catalan Govt. are saying if they get a Leave vote they will declare Independence in 48 hours, we are told it's a never ending process of 5 years at the bare minimum.

Declaring independence and actually being independent are very different things.
 
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