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

How did you vote in the EU Referendum?

  • Remain a member of the European Union

    Votes: 861 53.0%
  • Leave the European Union

    Votes: 763 47.0%

  • Total voters
    1,624
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I'm still quite surprised that until yesterday, the OCUK poll was quite heavily in favour of Leave, and now it's the opposite...

That's because despite losing they still have to try and force their view down our throats, while the leavers did their vote where it matters and no longer have to try to win an internet poll, the job is done.
 
I'm fairly certain we captained our own ship back in 1301! What's the point you're making?

In 1301 we were 'captained' by King Edward I of the House of Plantagenet, a direct descendent of William I (The Conqueror). In other words French (and formerly Viking). Someone who funded crusades, oppressed the Welsh and headed a feudal society which abused the peasantry. I'm sure you don't need me to point out the irony of this given the current context.
 
Got to laugh at the people treating this like a football match where their team lost or won. Nobody is exempt from the fallout on this one. Being on the 'winning' side is meaningless.
Seriously.

What gets me is that people are acting as if people shouldn't complain based on the majority, yet that provides the principle that NOBODY should ever say anything negative against government because they were elected, and so cant be criticized.

People that so strongly support democracy when it suits them, but get super upset when they are criticized.

****ing joke.
 
So the Romanians were blamed for the economic woes in our area, in a few years time when we've left and were still in **** who will we blame next?

UK restricts immigration to a sensible level, things become a 1000% better, schools, infrastructure, housing, health service waiting lists, everything.

EU: "Y-yeah...well... they are NAZI'S!!!....a-anyone?"

*tumbleweed*
 
I've told her to go to HR and complain about racial abuse.
I'm just gobsmacked that an extremely highly qualified professional person can be abused like that in the UK.

Make me embarrassed to be British.

No matter what way your politics lean, there's absolutely no need for that. I'm really worried that this is just the start of anti-Johnny-Foreigner sentiment.

Out of curiosity with this freedom of movement within the EU why did you choose to stay in the UK and not move to Poland?
 
Sorry for late replies guys,

What were your primary reasons?

My reasons to leave were:

- The EU relies too much on us as a country.
- The EU offers nothing to us really.
- We give too much money to other countries.
- There is no control on the flux of migration, more so over recent years.
- Great britain was exactly that, Great before the EU came along we will do fine without the EU.
- By staying in the EU just encourages more migrants which puts even more of a strain on the country, houses, jobs etc, voting out helps secure the future generations.
- No longer should we have to follow and listen to whats PC (politically correct) with the EU telling us about human rights and everything, this country has hardly been a freedom of speech for years because everything has become PC. Now we can have a voice of our own and truly be independent.
- Surely by leaving the EU we dont have to keep giving so much foreign aid. I don't mind the country helping others a little here and a little there but why should we be a cash cow for every other country?
- Staying in the EU would continue to open the doors to the likes of Turkey and Syria where it would only cause more problems, terrorist threats etc.
- David Cameron, I just cannot stand the guy, or Osborne or Corbyn they are all just liars.
- Staying in the EU only benefits the rich people and bankers etc.

So those are essentially the reasons I voted out, I feel the country needs a change, we need to be Great Britain again, we managed before the EU and will manage again without. Only the EU benefits from the UK, not us.

Amazing. 30 years old and never voted until this.

This is what bothers me most. My GF ran one of the polling stations. She said that many of the leave voters hadn't voted before now, despite not being all that young. They weren't bothered about their country politics before, why so much so now?

I have always followed politics/voting with a close eye but never felt like my opinion or vote would matter but this I strongly felt I needed to vote on with my reasons above been the main points.
 
I'm the anti-toff :D

What I am saying is, in the video they were lamenting the cutbacks due to austerity, its about to get much much worse for the poor sadly.

A lot of the leaves seem to have the mentality of "it couldn't get any worse", well they are wrong and are about to experience it. I truly wouldn't wish it on anyone and consider myself privileged to be able bodied if not particularly educated.

Like i just said to another poster, your now just carrying on the scaremongering that was there before the vote and now directing it to one set of people, those on benefits, the vote's over now.

You cannot possibly predict what is going to happen to people on benefits just as you can't with the people who are not.
 
Seems like people have gotten caught up far too much in the wrong areas and ignored what really matters.

"The younger generation has lost the right to live and work in 27 other countries. We will never know the full extent of the lost opportunities, friendships, marriages and experiences we will be denied. Freedom of movement was taken away by our parents, uncles and grandparents in a parting blow to a generation that was already drowning in the debts of our predecessors."

Typical bleeding heart Guardian columnist.
 
Yes, she's Polish and looks Slavic.

I know it's in jest but it's out of order, we have foreign workers and they've been going through the same today, a few jokes is OK but a continuous barrage of insults takes it too far.

If it continues, she should report them.
 
I disagree it was very much a vote against the "established" middle and upper classes doing very nicely out of the current setup and everyone else struggling by, just imo of course.

How is leaving the EU going to help the working classes (myself included)?

The EU have provided loads of workers rights, it's because of the EU I get 28 days paid holiday and the work week is capped at 48 hours.

I can only see this being very bad for the working class, at least in the first few years.
 
All the true colours of people coming out in this thread and proving what I said was right it was a class war above everything else.

Look down your nose at people then ? based upon a tv interview where the person was probably very nervous and couldn't express themselves confidently in front of cameras.

Just coming across as middle class lefties looking down their noses at not so fortunate people and that's the reason you lost.

Correct.
 
Typical bleeding heart Guardian columnist.

That's actually from the FT

But never mind eh, we've forced people to take a look at themselves and decide that squeezing the countries finances harder over the next few years will work out better in the long run. Even though we weren't really back on our feet from 2008.

Let's see if it works out

Hopefully you all have fixed rate mortgages :)
 
I've told her to go to HR and complain about racial abuse.
I'm just gobsmacked that an extremely highly qualified professional person can be abused like that in the UK.

Make me embarrassed to be British.

No matter what way your politics lean, there's absolutely no need for that. I'm really worried that this is just the start of anti-Johnny-Foreigner sentiment.

Well please pass on our reassurance, as little as it might help, that the majority of British people welcome her and are not jerks.
 
Out of curiosity with this freedom of movement within the EU why did you choose to stay in the UK and not move to Poland?

Because I was born here and am English?
She came to the UK in 2007 when her boyfriend came to study at Oxford. She got a good job off the back of her economics masters degree and so stayed when her relationship failed.
 
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