axisofweevils
Holy crap! Today's real megaton is that more than two people can have the same first name.
Surprisingly relevant GAF ads. Just got one for Leave on the bottom of this thread, reloaded and now there's one for Remain on the top,..
Brexit |OT| UK Referendum on EU Membership - 23 June 2016
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Yep, time to sit and watch https://www.dailyfx.com/gbp-usd all day.
I would expect it to be leave primarily, since I imagine it's mostly older voters who can't make it to the polls.
Nothing has been announced. It could very well be, but assume bullshit until proven otherwise.
I don't believe they're counted until the rest though.
I am not familiar with the britisch voting system, but I highly doubt that any country with postal vote opens these before the official voting day.
Bananajama
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To be honest
London might not even be affected by leaving anyway.
IMF and all the experts predicted financial Armageddon for London if we didn't join the single currency. Instead we thrived.
They predict financial Armageddon again for the City of London if we leave the EU.
Who's to say we couldn't thrive again.
The experts were wrong last time, they could be again.
Succinct Verbosity
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The count would not have started yet, postal vote or otherwise.
Eventually maybe, but the market is built on speculation and the £ is going to crash tomorrow if Leave wins. For how long, we don't know, but it's likely to increase prices of goods across the board for at least a year.
Not doing something the markets think is a good thing is a lot different than reversing something the markets already know is a good thing.
Miles Quaritch
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jufonuk
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I doubt that . The fear by being complacent and leave gets in, terrifies me.
That's gambling talk. Doubling down with the country isn't what I fancy. Some contrarians in the stock market are millionaires. A lot are bankrupt.
I feel a lot of leavers will change at the last minute. I also am a firm believer of government rigging.
31GhostsIV
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It does, although it's missing the description of the one other voter, giving you a look of suspicion that your cross is going to nullify theirs while you return a similar glance.
Bananajama
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I go back to my earlier post stating I'm a gambler at heart and think we could thrive outside the EU
31GhostsIV
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The government that has members on both sides of the fence, you mean? If you believe it's a fix why bother at all.
I go back to my earlier post stating I'm a gambler at heart and think we could thrive outside the EU
Are we doing that badly now? We are the fastest growing EU country-you want to risk that because you think we could get more?
Bizarre
As it happens, I'm in a few communities that discuss gameshows, and one of the things that's cropped up is that all-or-nothing gamble finale games work better overseas than they do in the UK due to the fact that we tend to err on the side of caution.
I think undecideds who believe in the risk will break to Remain, but many, I feel, think that the discussion of risk is simply scaremongering, and that's the more worrying group.
Bananajama
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Earlier post - try living in my city.
GazzaScotland
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It's always weird watching the news on polling day since they can't mention it much. Nice calm and catch up on all the news thats been pushed aside the past week or so.
It's good for a walk. Which is exactly how I treated it.
Explains a bit.
Intrigued by the fact that UKIP stops short of -100%. Isn't that the fundamental point of UKIP?
Bananajama
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Some consider UKIP as more a protest vote.
If we remain part of the EU I hope they disappear into nothingness - they do nothing for us in EU Parliament
axisofweevils
Holy crap! Today's real megaton is that more than two people can have the same first name.
So, I'm hearing lots of reports of polling stations covered in Union Jack flags. Surely, that's not allowed?
kavanf1
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This is the first political event in my working life where I see employers actively stating their position - and I see the same thing throughout the industry. Historically the financial industry takes a neutral position on political voting but in this case every single internal expert analysis is saying voting Leave will be bad for the UK for at least the next few decades. Internally I know that exit strategies for huge chunks of our business are ready to be executed in the event of a Leave vote (ie, shitloads of job losses in the UK). That's not a secret, the CEO announced it publicly. The knock on effects of this are almost impossible to quantify, but to the average person it boils down to "not good".
FlammableD
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Voted. Bricking the result.
I imagine there's a handful there who like the fact that UKIP raises legitimate worries about spending for instance in the EU (they'd be more effective at that if they ever showed up though) and feel other parties don't to a sufficient degree, but who on balance do prefer to remain part of the EU.
Yeah, there are stupid people in this country unfortunately. I mean, that's the whole point of voting Monster Raving Looney
or the guy round my way that renamed himself Leeds United.
Why do you think it isn't?
anonymous_abc
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Sounds like a Daily Mail headline
"Vote LEAVE: it might not be a disaster!"
To be fair, I don't see a contradiction between the Union Jack and remaining in the EU.
Audioboxer
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Voted for the secret 3rd option, take me to the moon!
Bananajama
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I thought that was be the 51st State?
Spoiled your ballot?
HazySaiyan
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Goddamn the number of people paranoid about using pencils on Twitter is embarassing.
Option 3: London is taken to the 'neath by a swarm of bats
FlammableD
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I mean, it's not hard to see the connotation. When the leave campaign has been doused in Nationalism, and the Leave supporting papers are emblazoned with Union Jacks, there's an obvious leaning.
Implying lefties think comment sections are anything other than hot garbage
Well, my parents definitely will, they're in a position where uncertainty will really fuck them over both financially and potentially in health terms as well. One interesting thing is that they've co-opted my sister and brother-in-law in to voting Remain as well, and I think in the absence of that influence, my brother-in-law may have gone Leave.
That's true for the comments section on pretty much any EU article anywhere sadly (see also, the BBC).
Which made no sense to me. "We want this union but not the other one!"
St George's crosses would be a no-no at polling stations, I would think
But what are the EU regulations on length and thickness of sticks of rhubarb?
A sublime cover drive down to the boundary, Phisheep. Excellent work. (Although fixed for long wave)
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