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:
It doesn't matter, the common man has spoken, as the political class allowed him to speak.
He said it is time to leave and face the unknown, and now we deal with the unknown.
The promises made thus far have been suggested to be false, but that does not matter, th often lie on manifesto.
What remains to be seen is just what agreements are in place in 2020, and just what it means for us.

What really is to be seen, is if outward investment and internal investment in the uk go ahead now, that will determine the depth of job losses, and depth of recession we may face.
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And the level of resentment and bad faith that the UK will have to now deal with because they feel that the reset of the EU has nothing that they need. The EU has been pretty firm on their 'if you're not going to be a team player then bugger off' call...
 
Evangelion said:
They weren't the only people that were listened to, but they were the loudest and it was their narrative that carried the Leave movement.
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And yet many people who would have voted leave were put off because of them so you know, six of on, half a dozen of the other. They did just as much harm to the campaign as good.

Evangelion said:
The overwhelming number of experts voted 'Remain', including just about every economist in the country.

I never saw a good case for Leave from any experts. It always came down to 'Herp derp, keep out the darkies and the Eastern Europeans, once we're out of the EU we won't need to accept asylum seekers any more.'
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Immigrants aren't just dark or eastern European but there are too many of them (when they are unskilled, uneducated and unwilling to integrate)
 
vincent1989 said:
They're the only generation with first hand experience of not living in the EU, I think we should trust them more than a fresh faced bunch of graduates with no experience of the world and a bunch of businesses who benefit hugely from a large pool of unskilled cheap labour and government hand outs to support that cheap labour.
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This is the view I share. They are the part of the population who have seen the impact of the EU on the UK from the start, going from a trade agreement to a "political" system. They are probably the most dissatisfied with the whole thing, and I'd wager they feel less "European"than the younger generation.
 
Bobmunkhouse said:
The French want us to "Take back control of our boarders " good work everyone....

EU Brexit referendum: France's Calais seeks border deal changes - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36626553
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ouch...

"The British must take the consequences of their choice," she said on Friday.
Under the 2003 Touquet deal, Britain can carry out check in Calais to stop migrants trying to get to Britain.

Meanwhile, Xavier Bertrand, the president of Hauts-de-France region where Calais is located, said: "The English wanted to take back their freedom: they must take back their border."
 
Can this actually work? Say 10/20 years down the line, could we actually work our way to be better off outside the EU? This is a major change, no doubt about it. But for major changes, we have to start somewhere, or we just live the same way for the rest of our lifes and the future lifes. For major changes, some generations have to suffer for the greater good, so what if this has to be us?
 
Spacedeck said:
Can this actually work? Say 10/20 years down the line, could we actually work our way to be better off outside the EU? This is a major change, no doubt about it. But for major changes, we have to start somewhere, or we just live the same way for the rest of our lifes and the future lifes. For major changes, some generations have to suffer for the greater good, so what if this has to be us?
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Theres always a possibility, but it seems the remain voters didnt want to take a gamble on their future to see if it worked or not. Understandable.
 
Uther said:
Call me when it gets to 18 million.
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Aye precisely, if it draws less signatures than the number who votes in favour of leaving it doesn't mean much, as yet, it hasn't even drawn enough signatures to make up the difference between remain and leave.
Let us forget about the petition, the people have decided, move along.
 
And this gem:

Meanwhile, Conservative MEP and Leave campaigner Daniel Hannan told BBC Newsnight he could envisage a situation where the UK had "free movement of labour" with the EU.
Asked if he thought Leave voters had been deceived into thinking their vote would bring an end to the freedom of movement, he said: "...do not imagine that if we leave the EU it means zero immigration from the EU, it means we will have some control."

Some control.. but free movement. :D
 
One thing that bothers me, is that love or hate the tories they have followed a single fiscal plan for a number of years, the strength of the economy and other factors can't really be denied... Is there now a real risk, that everything done in that time - is just going to get blown away?
 
What annoys me is that being almost 40 it's possibly going to affect most or even all of what's left of my working life in a negative way. Yes we might come out at the end of it all better off but that's not going to happen this year, next year and possibly not even for the next decade or two. Is that selfish? Of course it is but in my eyes understandable.
 
Insanties_birth said:
I was a leave voter throughout the whole thing, kind of wish we could just stay in the union to be honest as it wasn't a huge majority vote. Too bad Brussels cocked up the negotiation for us by not voting on what we'd get until afterwards and offering little in the process as well.

Would have been nice if the EU listened and saw the need for reform before these problems occurred too. Long days ahead for the EU and for us but I'd actually be okay with them just ignoring the vote based on the low difference overall and I was a leave voter.
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I echo this myself, as a leave voter.

The problem is, the country is SO divided, i know 1.2 million is a lot of people but 48/52% is not a majority vote and any elections etc are going to be very complicated due to the 48% of people that voted no. They will not want Borris or anybody who wanted leave.

We are a young family and i would have liked to have seen a 40/60% vote either way to have more clarity on the country agreeing on such a thing.

A second referendum would not be a terrible thing, it may bring out the 28% of people that did not vote and perhaps either way there may be a larger majority win.
 
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