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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Hikari Kisugi said:
Actually i pondered this as well.
Now europe might sit up and look at themselves, change a few bits and pie es without us.
No matter what happens to us, i think if they play it right, they could be much better off themselves.
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I agree as well. Brexit could be the best thing to ever happen to the EU. Or not, only time will tell!
 
It was Cameron who chose the unity of his party over the unity of the country by trying to appease his own backbenchers and head off his parties eurosceptic voters from defecting to UKIP.

He opened Pandora's box with the offer of a referendum and now we are where we are.

Either he never expected to be in a position to have to go through with the Conservative manifesto promise before the last election or he took a very unwise gamble that people would not vote for change.

Maybe he was too far removed from the worries of the rest of the country to see the danger.

It did not help that Corbyn had quite clearly lost the support of the working poor in traditional Labour areas, who have been most affected in terms of housing, pay and job security by the flow of EU and non-EU workers.

I just hope to god the politicians can renegotiate a clean and amicable break with the EU and not get involved in petty recriminations.
 
Rilot said:
I don't speak the language well enough to be useful in my line of work.
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That's a crucial difference between British people and other EU nationals. Like it or not we don't have the language skills to work anywhere in the EU. It's a one way street so in general we don't have the same opportunities as other countries who learn multiple languages from an early age. I think for that reason people have a right to be protective of the job market here.
 
estebanrey said:
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lol
 
Arthur Hucksake said:
It's disgusting. She lives here, she's one of us.

The whole point of this is to look after our own. You live here? You are our own.

A lot of the Leave voters were not racially motivated. I know Muslim Leave voters for example.
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You know huge swaths of people in the UK don't think like that and immigration was a huge topic for the vote. Bigotry and racism is alive and well within the UK and the rest of the world. People need to understand this.
 
Gigabit said:
I don't look down on those less fortunate than me at all but what I do believe is that nearly everyone has the ability to improve themselves. Life is what you make it. Work hard and be rewarded.
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I don't. I have worked hard to get my business of the ground, and have been dismissed many times for cheap labour, in this case from India, (which has nothing to do with the referendum) but I can assure you sometimes hardwork gets you nowhere.
 
The Running Man said:
Exactly, it doesn't make sense. What support network does she have? They learn English, we don't learn polish. They can get very well paid jobs here, we can't there.

That's why freedom of movement does not work for us. We are a magnet for Europeans. We have higher levels of wealth, they all learn English. There is no balance of movement.
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This is true. There are very good reasons why people want to come and work here and then end up staying. The question that I think the referendum has answered is 'is this OK long term?' The British people have said 'no, it's not' and that's that.
I can understand the sentiment, but I disagree with the British people. We are a mongrel nation, always have been.

And although I consider myself English, my mother's side of the family are Lithuanian Jews so maybe that makes me more sympathetic to immigration.
 
I think Cameron (like many of us on the remain side), never expected to have such a high turnout for leave. Cameron perhaps naively, assumed those who would turn out to vote would be those for remain, not leave.

He also felt (I think), that the remain campaign with in general more facts (at least from his viewpoint), would swing it. As has been proven, the electorate don't seem to care about the future or facts, whatever they can do to say **** you to the Government, they will do it. A lot of this is I suspect in part due to FPTP and UKIP's one MP and also the Government cuts.
 
Raikiri said:
Because I don't want to leave all my friends and family, start a new job, learn a new language etc?

Before the EU brought in the law over 2 million people worked full time with zero paid leave in the UK, we have no precedence of providing workers rights off our own backs.
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Exactly my point, migrants don't want to do that either but big business demands it right ?
 
The most irritating thing is seeing people say "the markets have picked up a bit"

They havent. The financial markets have been pricing in a brexit for months and months, probably since the date was announced.

If we had voted to remain, we would likey be at or at least heading back up to the highs of last year , 1.4+ GBP/EUR and 1.6+ GBP/USD

Instead we now have 1.23GBP/EUR and 1.37 GBP/USD

If that sticks or gets lower (likely) we are all going to be worse off for a while.
 
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