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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delta0 said:
Legally they are able to apply an emergency brake on it.

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With very very strict criteria needed. So strick that the last time the brake was used it was because one town had 67% immigrants living there and couldnt take anymore.

SO on that basis, we would need to take another 40m or so migrants before we could even attempt to invoke the emergency brake.
 
Arazi said:
But as i have said before, we can vote them in or out in the UK, where is that choice with EU elite?
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What "elite" are you taking about? The multinationals, the banks, the ultra-wealthy will have just as much, if not far more influence in an independent UK then in EU.
 
Raikiri said:
Easy to say when you're on the winning side.
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Absolutely but it doesn't change the fact that it's ridiculous.

If we got a 2nd referendum and voted to remain, the EU would be laughing their nuts off at us and any negotiation we planned on doing would be laughed out the door
 
muon said:
London didn't cause anything. The credit crisis was a result of financial contagion spreading from the sub-prime credit crisis in America. It didn't just affect the UK, but the whole of Europe and most of the world.

The UK wasn't worse off simply because London existed. The financial centre of Europe could have been in Paris and the UK economy would still have been severely affected.
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I know. A lot of the banks with headquarters in London and large investment branches in London were responsible and made money buying those sub-prime so called "AAA" US Mortgages. They knew that they'd get bailed out and didn't care. The bankers in London made loads of money, they're still now making loads of money, how many of them struggled to pay their Mortgage during the crisis? Not many I bet, they might've had to buy a few less luxury cars that year
 
Funny that people think it is fine when 23% of the vote gives a party over 50% of the majority in government. No this is democracy working at its finest.

But when 51% of the public vote 'Leave' in the highest turnout ballot since 1992, suddenly democracy is broken and it doesn't work.
 
Steedie said:
Absolutely but it doesn't change the fact that it's ridiculous.

If we got a 2nd referendum and voted to remain, the EU would be laughing their nuts off at us and any negotiation we planned on doing would be laughed out the door
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Not to mention making the country look more unstable than people think it is currently. The decision was made, people should move on even if it wasn't their preferred outcome (I plan on doing so)
 
pepsilol said:
Anyone else waking up feeling like it's all a dream? It feels just so surreal to me.
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Yep. But although the result was disappointing, the more I look at it the happier I am.

It will finally burst the bubble of everyone who believes Britain must be dragged back to some kind of 1950s golden age that never really existed. It will give Scotland and Northern Ireland a fresh chance to gain freedom after centuries of occupation. It will encourage the EU to restructure and fix the problems that led to the Leave vote.

AtreuS said:
How will the scots pay for all the infrastucture if they leave? all the hospitals and UK Government owned assests will have to be bought from the UK of course.

You cannot just leave and expect to take all the assets with you? they are not owed in full by scotland, they are assets of the UK and so a deal will have to be done as to how much an independant scotland will have to pay.

Also how do things like the rail system and airports work? companies will have to get licences to operate in another country and get tax set up with HMRC ( if they even want to ).

Its a logistical nightmare! :eek:
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These things can be negotiated by the experts. The process will no doubt be challenging and arduous, but where there's a will there's a way.
 
Steedie said:
Absolutely but it doesn't change the fact that it's ridiculous.

If we got a 2nd referendum and voted to remain, the EU would be laughing their nuts off at us and any negotiation we planned on doing would be laughed out the door
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Or we could agree a stronger position within the EU before holding a second vote and try to actually educate voters rather than relying on propaganda (on both sides).
 
I get the feeling that everyone that has used the expression of "why are you crying " is a actually too young, immature or silly to understand the whole refurendum. No normal people onthe street won. Maybe in 10 or 20 years there will be some winners in what's left of UK.
Too much proxy protest votes not enough knowledge on either side.
Saddened by the whole thing even though it means very little to me directly.
No 2nd refurendum that is ridiculous.
Now is the time for Scotland though if it's ridiculous enough for a second chance now the games changed ☺
 
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A second referendum would be silly now.

But it is also why many referendums are set up with a higher threshold e.g. 60:40. Just to make sure the actual result isn't subject to short term changes in feeling. However, something like that would never have been politically tenable for this referendum.
 
Greebo said:
With very very strict criteria needed. So strick that the last time the brake was used it was because one town had 67% immigrants living there and couldnt take anymore.

SO on that basis, we would need to take another 40m or so migrants before we could even attempt to invoke the emergency brake.
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Tbh I don't actually mind the immigration. It only needs to control those coming here without a job and those with criminal records. It is the freedom to get our own FTA and the significantly less EU red tape that is more interesting about the EEA position. Getting something better than what we have now is going to be a win. We need to negotiate and come out with a great deal for both UK and EU. The EU as it stands is not a good deal for anyone including its own member states.
 
Mauller said:
Funny that people think it is fine when 23% of the vote gives a party over 50% of the majority in government. No this is democracy working at its finest.

But when 51% of the public vote 'Leave' in the highest turnout ballot since 1992, suddenly democracy is broken and it doesn't work.
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It's done and dusted, the result is in, everyone needs to move on. No time for tears!
 
Steedie said:
Absolutely but it doesn't change the fact that it's ridiculous.

If we got a 2nd referendum and voted to remain, the EU would be laughing their nuts off at us and any negotiation we planned on doing would be laughed out the door
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I don't know why people keep bringing this 2nd referendum up, it's not going to happen, even us sane remain votes know this.
 
n111ck said:
hahahahah he must be a member on here because that is spot on GD. :D
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Sad part is, I recognise a lot of usernames. I don't forget things easily.

The few here acting like children calling people salty etc were basically posting borderline outright racist nonsense in certain threads relating to immigration.

Don't think I haven't noticed all of you.

Maybe people call you racists and bigots because that is what some of you may be going by your posts at least.

Just my 2 cents.
 
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