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

[Raymond Lin]

Better to be free and in control rather than be bullied in a relationship

As far as I am concerned the EU can go **** itself.

Oh and BTW I'm educated and voted Leave.

Educated in EU law and economics?

Or educated in Highlanders?

It's not the same.

 

[Steedie]

Exactly, then we have to accept the free movement of workers.

I mean is that so difficult to understand?

No I mean you're wrong. We will trade just fine with the EU and not have to accept free movement

 

[Raymond Lin]

No I mean you're wrong. We will trade just fine with the EU and not have to accept free movement

Eh?

You really are silly and yet think you know whats what !

OMG, I have to quote this...go read up on Norway.

 

[Christmas themed thank]

The bit that makes me chuckle is all the Remain lot going, come on then, wheres this 350m that was going to be spent on the NHS, erm, the Leave lot arent in control of the government so have no say on where that money goes, they never did, did people really vote on the strength of stuff like that?

Then you see the Remain lot crying over leaving Europe, seriously..


The whole lot was a shambles, both sides lied, shed loads of scaremongering, the Remain lot want a re-vote, yet if they had won they'd be telling the Leave lot to just shush, you lost etc...

Hows about everyone just "British" up, mumble under your breath, then STFU and get on with it..

No, they can't spend £350 million because there isn't £350 million to spend. That number is a complete and utter lie.

 

[davewhite04]

Then kiss goodbye to trading with the EU.

I'll gladly kiss goodbye to my new BMW(take it back to the dealership) if it goes that way, which obviously it won't. Freedom of movement stops, trade quite obviously won't.

 

[robfosters]

I can see it now:

UK vote out.
BoJo becomes leader of Tories and calls GE.
Labour (without Corbyn) landslide as people want back in EU.
Scotland gets independence.
Article 50 never gets invoked.

They would have to get rid of Corbyn. He is adamant we should respect the will of the public and is a closet Brexiter himself.

 

[Steedie]

The day the people of Britain stood proud and refused to bend their knee and kiss the boot of the EU.

A great and historic day.

I've never felt prouder to be British. It's just a shame that being proud of this decision has left me labelled as a racist and uneducated.

I had to call my university yesterday to double check that as a leave voter, my first in computer science is still valid

 

[Fubsy]

They would have to get rid of Corbyn. He is adamant we should respect the will of the public and is a closet Brexiter himself.

They'll get rid of him by the end of this coming week.

 

[Steedie]

OMG, I have to quote this...go read up on Norway.

We're not Norway though ffs. You know nothing, clearly, you come across as very silly in this thread

 

[GAC]

I've never felt prouder to be British. It's just a shame that being proud of this decision has left me labelled as a racist and uneducated.

I had to call my university yesterday to double check that as a leave voter, my first in computer science is still valid

and old

 

[SPG]

Take the bit about Jo Cox out and that is the best post I've ever read.

Treated..... yet again another who thinks that they have been mislead. The evidence has been there for months and months, do your own research formulate your own opinions.

I voted remain as was unsure either way. Respect the decision instead of complaining and moaning and pinning the fault on someone else. Take your own responsibility and deal with it. Its called being a adult.

 

[Amp34]

The petition is a nonsense

You cannot force people to turn out to vote. So you implement those numbers and run another one. Result is 90/10 for leave but only 74% turnout. You just ignore that?

You can't just change the rules and pull numbers out the sky to make it fit.

Leave should just do one for an over 50% result and 71% turnout. In the long run there are 1.7 million more people who would sign that petition. Or ya know just have a vote

Agreed. While I don't like the result doing a revote is a silly idea. Let's just hope the first vote wasn't a monumental mistake...

Because that, rather than being able to find a job, or affordable housing, or a doctor is of course the key issue people were facing...oh wait no, people were clearly more worried about the latter problems, hence the result.

Build a bridge and get over it.

Ironically enough the places most "affected" by immigration (I.e. The places with the most immigrants) were the places most likely to vote remain, while the places with the least European immigration were most likely to vote leave... Perhaps perception is worse than actual. I think the media have a lot to answer for in this.

 

[easyrider]

A relationship normally involves compromise, if you want the benefits you have to take the perceived negatives too.

Then there is a case of being violated...abused

It's a case of people wanting their cake and wanting to eat it all. It's going to end in tears.

I don't think so...No one is expecting free trade deals here with the EU.

The EU is broken based purely on ransoming.

Net migration will go up as there will be less people leaving the country and the NHS will not survive without nurses from Portugal etc.

Why? I qualified nurse from the EU will suddenly not be unwelcome in this country....


NEXT

 

[wordy]

Just to remind ourselves that this was the main argument used by the totally-not-xenophobic-or-racist-honest-guv-ask-anyone-who-knows-me-I-even-have-a-black-friend Leave campaign:

....and the side you supported was unable to successfully counter such a moronic argument. That says just as much about the remainers tbh.

 

[bloodline76]

Actually, the number of non-EU immigrants will increase as the EU retreat. And since non-EU ones have less education/skills, that means more pressure on low pay, low skilled jobs. The ones who overwhelmingly voted out.

Remember yesterday because it will go down in history as a monument of stupidity.

So wanting to actually have a say in eu immigration makes you a racist in the eyes of many but it's ok to stop non eu nations coming over? Can you be considered a bit racist but only to non eu countries?

Someone above just said it takes 6 months to 2 years to move without free movement, wouldnt that imply it will now take everyone that time instead?

So what do the remain voters have against the Asian community? Doesn't voting leave mean you treating everyone equally. Just a thought.

 

[Skunkworks]

Just to remind ourselves that this was the main argument used by the totally-not-xenophobic-or-racist-honest-guv-ask-anyone-who-knows-me-I-even-have-a-black-friend Leave campaign:

https://s32.postimg.org/sw09g2dol/Brexit_Leave_Campaign_Project_Fear.jpg

Have you considered getting together with some like-minded people and rounding up these fascists?

 

[robfosters]

They'll get rid of him by the end of this coming week.

So basically, Labour get in and then totally ignore the referendum result?

I don't want a government like that.

 

[Mr Jack]

They would have to get rid of Corbyn. He is adamant we should respect the will of the public and is a closet Brexiter himself.

I don't think there is any appetite within the Labour party for ignoring the referendum result, Corbyn or no Corbyn. And Corbyn isn't going anywhere fast.

And although Labour voters backed Remain 2:1, a third of our vote backed Leave; few Remain voters would be lost by respecting the will of the British people but a lot of Leave voters would be lost.

 

[Christmas themed thank]

I just find it bizarre that the leave campaign is now trying to distance itself from immigration when I think it's fairly obvious that a lot of people wanted to leave the EU because of immigration.

Look at the TV interviews, look at years and years of Question Time, for some examples. Look at Nigel Farage himself, look at Boris Johnson.

 

[cainer]

I did go and check for myself. Two thing are immediately obvious: (1) the sum of the number of signatures by country doesn't equal the total number of signatures so either the data is incomplete or is updated more slowly and (2) there are UK citizens living outside the UK who have the right to vote, just because people aren't in the UK doesn't mean that don't count.

the other thing thats obvious is that this poll doesn't adhere to the legal rules of the official vote, so many recent EU nationals living here can vote in this poll