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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Tefal said:
Ok great that will of course apply ro all future referendums.

So the default position is leave.

And eill remain so unless remain get more than 60% of 75% turnout.

If they dont achive that the leave vote stands
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It's not uncommon to have referenda with a turnout and super majority requirement.

I would actually be happy to have another referendum along these lines, with the default position as leave.

Remain would walk in above 60% as the reality of leaving sinks in, and the realisation that there's everything to loose and precious little to gain.

If leaving the EU meant apply 99% of EU rules, agreeing to free movement and paying in roughly the same money in order to get access to the single market, who's going to vote to leave?
 
Buckster said:
They could just choose to ignore it or declare it void on too slim a mandate
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I do hope that this will happen. Leave campaign have already backtracked on some of their main promises so the referendum should be voided on that alone.

I'd have no problem with having a referendum on this if there was clear plan set out on what would happen after it. This was stupidly campaigned (both sides) with no plan so no wonder we got a stupid outcome.

Edit: and for those that are having a go at young ones protesting. Of course they're going to, they're the ones that are going to live with this decision. Good chunk of retired people will not even see UK leaving EU and those who will it will impact only for a short time. Think I've said it before that anyone within 5 years or over current life expectancy age should not had been allowed to vote.
 
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bloodline76 said:
It's ignorant comments like this that turns this into something it's not.

I guess you think countries outside the eu should be treated differently to those in the eu. With the majority of the eu white, that sounds a bit like you are discriminating against people by colour.

See how you can make something out of nothing with ignorant comments? :rolleyes:
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It's why I said "seemingly" because this is about perception. When the Brexit campaign was fought with the immigration issue so prominent, when there's so many people saying that immigration was a major motivation for their vote, how else do you think it's going to be perceived?

And yes I'm sure a lot of Brexit voters were motivated by a range of other issues. But if a campaign is going to share a platform with racists, bigots and xenophobes, then it can't really surprise anyone when some of this rubs off and the perception is that this was a campaign fuelled by hate not hope.
 
Hades said:
They are entitled to vote leave for absolutely any reason that makes sense to them. It doesn't have to make sense to you. That's the point of democracy.
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It is not a case of if it makes sense to them or not, that doesn't matter if the reason is completely irrelevant, invalid, or based solely on force-fed lies, bigotry, selfishness, anger, or short-sightedness.

I feel that my feelings towards these people are perfectly justified, given the impact it is going to have if it goes ahead...

There is no excuse for being ignorant.
 
Mr Jack said:
I agree. Cameron has done Britain and the world a huge disservice by abandoning his word and refusing to pull the trigger.
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Do you think the UK will get a better deal by pressing forward ASAP? To me it looks like Cameron is not the person to do this and I'm fairly sure none in the leave camp know where to start (partly imo because theyve been found out to have been presenting a bag of bluffs and lies, but on a favourable viewing its because theyd need help from the civil service [good job they didnt sack all those back office pen pushers hey?]. Either way Its bound to take a long time. Why set a deadline when we don't have to unless it's favourable for us
 
I think I posted this already, but how long would people be prepared to suffer economic downturn attributable to Brexit for? Five years? Ten? Twenty?

Where would be the cut-off point where it becomes something that wasn't worth doing? Does anyone consider no (economic) price too high to pay for leaving?
 
bloodline76 said:
What was the percentage of people that voted in the conservative party? Should we redo that too as we have 65% unhappy?
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it is really a fairly exceptional circumstance this referendum not a regular GE. Still if the day of the General Election Win for the Tories they retracted a bunch of the manifesto and the Bank of England had to allocate £250Bil to shore up the economy, I would have similar thoughts about that.
 
As if it wasn't obvious enough, its confirmed that Cameron is a talking head. He hasn't agonised about anything during his leadership, he looks the same as he did in 2010 when I voted for him :p
 
Caged said:
I think deuse is classifying discussion of where we go from here and the options that are open, as moaning. Presumably unrestrained optimism with a bit of hubris thrown in trumps a coherent plan.
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Not really sure what he expects this thread to be? Did he expect it to be a circle jerk about how great everything is going to be, despite there being a pretty much 50/50 split in this country over which option was best, and this forum's poll itself showing more here voted to remain?
 
Caged said:
I think I posted this already, but how long would people be prepared to suffer economic downturn attributable to Brexit for? Five years? Ten? Twenty?

Where would be the cut-off point where it becomes something that wasn't worth doing? Does anyone consider no (economic) price too high to pay for leaving?
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Well so far the economy has lost the cost of 40 years EU membership so...
 
Acme said:
It seems that the leavers are all being very short sighted and they have no argument at all aside from WE WON MOVE ON LOL... Sickening.
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We've had years to talk about the arguments on both sides. The referendum on Thursday was the culmination of that. The time for debating which way to go has already passed. It seems like suddenly people have become interested in politics and want to turn back the clock.
 
The amusing part of all this is some of the leave supporters here stating how great a thing democracy is and how important it is that we abide by the referendum, yet at the same trying to quiet the people explaining the huge amounts of negative consequences this vote will bring us and the people voicing their concern about what will happen.

What happened to free speech, which is essentially the cornerstone of democracy?

Don't worry i know the answer: "stop moaning and move on, we won".
 
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