Brexit |OT| UK Referendum on EU Membership - 23 June 2016

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Hoping the voting picked up a bit more through the day, my polling station was quieter than I thought it'd be around 9:15, and there weren't too many names crossed out. At least my vote for Remain will be counted.

I'm planning on staying up, but considering I crashed around 6am trying to do the same for the Scottish referendum... we'll see how it goes. xD
 
Finally arrived at the polling station, which box for remain I shouted? All the MI5 agents cheered and put their rubbers down.
 
Enjolras said:
Hoping the voting picked up a bit more through the day, my polling station was quieter than I thought it'd be around 9:15, and there weren't too many names crossed out. At least my vote for Remain will be counted.

I'm planning on staying up, but considering I crashed around 6am trying to do the same for the Scottish referendum... we'll see how it goes. xD
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Staying up is only good if your side wins otherwise it is the most soul crushing feeling ever. I was on a backshift for Scottish independence vote. Went to work later that day tired, salty and pissed.
 
ferrasvansen said:
Yeah it's the same thing all over, my family were all Labour voters, felt kinda obliged to be the same until I turned 18, then I decided before I voted to study the parties and what I believed in, so stayed Labour. Hopefully she realises it's her vote, not her husbands, I'm sure he would prefer her to make her own choices.
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I feel the same. All I really care about is that you sat down and gave it a think.
 
T-Rex. said:
Finally arrived at the polling station, which box for remain I shouted? All the MI5 agents cheered and put their rubbers down.
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You guys are fucking killing me with this shit
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Just want to give my two cents before I go and vote. I'm going to be voting Remain but there is a lot I don't like about the EU.

Generally, I don't really like the EU's political structure. I don't like the legislative procedure as they exist now. I don't like how far removed the European Commission is from ordinary voters. Even if the way the EU parliament is formed right now is OK, the low turnout undermines it's credibility and the poor quality of reporting in UK at least (which I am aware is not the EUs fault) seems to make it the perfect environment for lobbying and corruption.

Additionally, I don't think "ever closer union" is possible or even desirable. This sort of unification seems to revive or even create animosity between nations rather than reduce it, which we can all agree is the opposite of why the EU was formed. The response to the Eurozone crisis is to me a good example of that, the people of Germany and Greece (for example) would not feel the same level of dislike they do currently if not for the financial institutions they share.

That said, most of my dislikes of the EU are issues with its institutions rather than the actual policies it pursues. I am pretty sceptical about the Euro but that isn't really relevant to the UK, generally I am OK with freer movement of people and freer trade etc. Moreover, I think that even if I wouldn't want the UK to join the EU as it now exists, given we are in it the practical costs of leaving would be far too great.

tl;dr: I don't like the institutions of the EU but I think there would be too many practical costs to leaving so I am voting Remain.
 
phisheep said:
Poignant little moment in the shop at lunchtime.

I was making up a necklace for a very elderly lady - probably mid-90s - and got chatting, the way you do. We talked about her time in Montana, and the time she got stuck in LA with no flight ticket and no money, when she turned to the conversation towards the referendum. So we talked around that, and her attitudes and intention to vote Leave didn't seem to match the rest of her character, and I gently prodded around the issues. She was close to tears when she told me that her political views were entirely formed by her late husband - now dead 50 years. We talked a bit more, and she left with a (by now heavily-discounted) necklace and a determination to vote Remain when she got back to Swindon.

She gave me a big hug as she left.
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Cash for votes, eh? You remain voters are obviously very worried.

I wonder if when I live to 90, my lifelong held views will be changed in an instant by a chance encounter with a retail worker. I'm doubtful.
 
ClivePwned said:
forget Australian points-based immigration system, you need Australian-style sausage sizzle at your polling stations.

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Basically a BBQ set up at the entrance to the polling station and people cook a sausage with onions and give it to you on a slice of bread. They're basically used to raise funds for charities or local schools. They used to be outside giant hardware stores on a saturday morning (food trucks/stalls aren't as common there) but a few years ago they started appearing at schools and other voting stations on election days (it is compulsory to vote in Australia) so that's what a lot of people enjoy most about elections there. There's even a website to tell you which polling stations have sausage sizzles

http://www.electionsausagesizzle.com.au/

I voted by post but ate a sausage for breakfast anyway.
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Coincidentally, I had breakfast today (I usually never have breakfast, which contributes to me being thin as fuck). But I had linda mccartney's veggie sausages in a muffin for breakfast earlier - and damn, they're amazing. Easy to cook, no mess, and they taste great. fucking love it - and they're only a quid for a pack in my local

ive been converted. but only for sausages, I'm still eating all the chickens and cows I can, fuck them
 
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