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

[Amp34]

Let's get fracking! That can only end well, right?

Only if we want high gas prices. The biggest issue is economics and whether companies can extract enough to actually make it commercially viable.

 

[Amp34]

Or just the ability to answer a question would be nice .

 

[jonneymendoza]

You will be fine to get a mortgage. Just ensure it is at a fixed rate that you can afford.

Simples

Interest rates may go up and we could end up in our own recession. Not a good idea to get a mortgage without knowing the full consequences of brexit

 

[jonneymendoza]

Even better, have a system like this before you can collect your ballot paper to vote. Trouble is, "what is the EU?" might have stumped quite a lot of people

Males more sense for voters to do a test about it before they are allowed to vote

 

[Amp34]

Even better, have a system like this before you can collect your ballot paper to vote. Trouble is, "what is the EU?" might have stumped quite a lot of people

Bit of a slippery slope that one unfortunately! Forum posting fine, perhaps not for a referendum unfortunately. That said it would certainly help an informed vote.

 

[jonneymendoza]

There should have been a compulsory test before people were allowed to vote!

This

 

[PraxxtorCruel]

When I come to this thread I feel:

The country is going to collapse, mass looting, riots, etc

When I leave this thread and go outside:

I see it's nowhere near as dreadful and life goes on.

 

[marc2003]

There should have been a compulsory test before people were allowed to vote!

That would have been one vote less for remain in your case.

 

[estebanrey]

https://petition.parliament.uk/ crashed just now because of the influx of signatures on that second referendum petition. Back up now. It has gone up by 25,000 signatures since my last post about it.

e; Just went up by 1000 signatures since writing this...I was refreshing it earlier and it was going up by 100 every few seconds for a while.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/131215

Ahh the classic "2 out of 3?" type reaction to losing. Pathetic really.

 

[Cern]

Bit of a slippery slope that one unfortunately! Forum posting fine, perhaps not for a referendum unfortunately. That said it would certainly help an informed vote.

Well, one slippery slope to prevent another eh?

I wasn't entirely serious of course. However, if we can't expect the politicians and press campaigning for each side to give honest, factual points of view then what hope for an informed vote.

It's why it's dangerous to make sweeping changes by plebiscite.

This referendum should only ever have been a start to the process of discussing how we might leave and under what terms. Instead it's rapidly become a case of "right we're off" with "sooner the better" as the response. Yet no-one knows what on earth the terms of any of this will end up being.

It's not as if before the referendum any major political party in the House Of Commons had Brexit in their manifesto. There is just one UKIP MP and yet here we are leaving the EU.

Madness.

 

[estebanrey]

Remain voters: Old people should not blame immigrants for all their problems
Remain voters: Young people feel tree to blame old people for all your problems

 

[Akagi]

Remain voters: Old people should not blame immigrants for all their problems
Remain voters: Young people feel tree to blame old people for all your problems

Please explain the logic used here, if any?

 

[RoboCod]

"In Moody's view, the negative effect from lower economic growth will outweigh the fiscal savings from the UK no longer having to contribute to the EU budget."

Wonderful.

, the UK authorities might well adopt policies that mitigate the above mentioned negative consequences of the decision to leave the EU. Those policies -- in the areas of trade, regulations, immigration, tax -- will become clearer over the coming 1-2 years.

I have zero faith that our NEW authorities will be able to ever achieve this, let alone in 1-2 years time. Moody's have hit the nail on the head that we will raise taxes for everyone. That won't mitigate the the consequences, but it will make our poor even poorer.

Source

 

[estebanrey]

Please explain the logic used here, if any?

The Remain camp have been rightly stating that some people who voted Leave because they blamed problems in their life on immigrants they were wrong to do so.

Yet today the left-wing media (Guardian/BBC) have been pushing stories all day encouraging young people to blame all their future issues on older voters taking us out of the EU.

All we've done is swap lazy young chavs blaming their inability to get a job on immigrants with lazy young hipsters blaming their inability to get a job on those pesky old people destroying their future

 

[Akagi]

At least it is slightly more accurate now.

 

[RoboCod]

The Remain camp have been rightly stating that some people who voted Leave because they blamed problems in their life on immigrants they were wrong to do so.

Yet today the left-wing media (Guardian/BBC) have been pushing stories all day encouraging young people to blame all their future issues on older voters taking us out of the EU.

All we've done is swap lazy young chavs blaming their inability to get a job on immigrants with lazy young hipsters blaming their inability to get a job on those pesky old people destroying their future

And the lazy chavs still won't work.

 

[Nate75]

 

[SteveOBHave]

The Remain camp have been rightly stating that some people who voted Leave because they blamed problems in their life on immigrants they were wrong to do so.

Yet today the left-wing media (Guardian/BBC) have been pushing stories all day encouraging young people to blame all their future issues on older voters taking us out of the EU.

All we've done is swap lazy young chavs blaming their inability to get a job on immigrants with lazy young hipsters blaming their inability to get a job on those pesky old people destroying their future

I don't think you've swapped at all - there's still lazy young chavs and lazy young entitled hipsters. Someones always going to 'be to blame' for the entitled people in a country. The difference is that rarely are those entitled people give the opportunity to well and truely mess things up...

 

[chief barker]

Signed. Can't be bothered with a bunch of racist fossils ruining our future.

"Insanity in individuals is something rare – But in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule."



Edit; I hope you are not following the herd Creative.

 

[Freddie1980]

So far in this thread we hve successfully divided the country into two groups. Remain voters are self entitled morons who hvae more patriotic feelings to the European Union nd there are the leave camp who have hve been labeled as racist knuckle draggers.

D.P in the general election thread even moaned t me for not holding strong opinions either way. Why is it the middle ground never gets a look in round here?