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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Mauller said:
WE should have had proportional representation years ago, 23% of the vote to gain a majority? no wonder people feel so disillusioned.

Also having more people in coalition from smaller parties help keep the bigger ones in line.
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I agree wholeheartedly.

Now how can we make this happen?
 
Jono8 said:
GBP/USD lowest for at least 12 years:

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=GBPUSD%3DX+Interactive#{%22range%22:%22max%22,%22allowChartStacking%22:true}1

Nothing overly dramtic about it all, and dont say "it hasnt dropped THAT much recently" because the brexit has been priced in for ages. We would be likely heading back to 1.6 again if we voted to remain
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But has it crashed? No. Is it worthless? No. Yes its worth less than it was yesterday but 1.4 rather than 1.6 isnt the end of the world is it?
 
B&W said:
A good portion of Muslims I asked voted leave and they're reasoning: "useless Romanians scrounging benefits". An Indian guy said the same thing.

It's still racially motivated. Minority on minority, very disheartening.
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That's just people though. Goes on worldwide, always has, always will. Same here in NZ.

Although within another generation those white Romanians' children will be white British and nobody will be any wiser. The ethnic minorities will still be ethnic.

Circle repeat. Boring really.
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
The labour party once again amuse me.
Their leader, voted in by the will of the common labour voter, was a rather euro skeptic person, he brought himself to say remain, but just about, and didnt jump up and down for it, while the vast majority of the parlimentary party raved for remain.
Labour voters then didnt vote remain, and the parlimentary party blame the leader.
I fear once again labour parlimentarians are completely at odds with grass root party supporters and dont even realise it.
The seem to think their own labour supporters didnt do as told, because they were told it enough or loudly enough. Rather than actaully react to peoples fears, desires and mainly complaints, and sort fact from fiction for their voters.

Many have voted for this on an economic basis, and clearly have no clue as to potential implications, and should jobs go, and them be hit hardest will blame the conservatives, rather than blame themselves for their own votes.

I will be very interested in what the main divides are come the next election, as the conservatives shouldn't have their natural euro philic euro skptic split, as there is nothing to be split upon.
Their only split will be how hard to punish the working man, and how much tomfoolery they can get away with in the name of big business and making overall deals that are bad for the country but can be sold to the county as good.

See ttip for the uk equivalent now, awfully worried they will,screw that up for the forthcoming generations.
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On this we agree, Corbyn is a *****, but he is not a huge fan of Europe and never has been.
Neither is the common all garden Labour voter.

Its mass influx of middle class champagne socialists that have taken over the party that have it wrong, not him.

But that just loops back to people thinking they can tell people how to think doesnt it?
 
jigger said:
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.
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Yes i totally agree, and in every religion, colour whatever, all as bad as each other.

But i am also fed up of people on here saying it is because of all the lower class, bigots and racists that cost the remain voters the EU membership.

Bigots and racists are in all walks of life, not just the poor and uneduacated.
 
BuffetSlayer said:
But has it crashed? No. Is it worthless? No. Yes its worth less than it was yesterday but 1.4 rather than 1.6 isnt the end of the world is it?
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Not for you maybe. But for those living on the edge of their finances already, it could prove to be really difficult.

Why are people not getting this?
 
The Running Man said:
I am not a racist but I understand that people are upset that so many people come here from abroad and take jobs.
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To be fair they don't take jobs. They apply for jobs and get given jobs.

If someone from the UK can't compete with some random Polish guy who barely speaks English then I think that's more their issue.
 
Alex_6n2 said:
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."
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Yep no one ever goes to work anywhere outside the EU. No British working in the US or India or Africa or China or Australia...

I don't think a bit of extra paperwork will kill them especially if they've gone to the trouble to learn a European language.
 
Darujhistan said:
Yes it should be far less centralised, and far less dominated by people from certain schools, certain universities, certain backgrounds and far more representative of the country as a whole by gender, ethnicity and age.
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Noway way too many undesirables
 
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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.



Post of the day so far.
 
Caged said:
Human rights aren't affected by Brexit. Neither is the foreign aid budget, unless we don't have the money to spare any more.

It seems like a lot of your reasons to leave were based on a fantasy idea of what the EU is or could turn into as opposed to the reality of the situation.
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^^ This.

I wonder if he's an 'engineer.'
 
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