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[Napalm_Frank]

Salt is real

 

[Roberto Larcos]

Sunderland should have been relegated instead of Newcastle.

10/10.

 

[jm89]

BAN sunderland from the premier league

 

[BadHand]

YES! I've always loved the Portuguese.

Hope you don't mine applying for a visa.

 

[Nafai1123]

Wow the GBP is crashing.

 

[Raknar]

YES! I've always loved the Portuguese.

I'll join you... *Opens up Duolingo Portuguese*

 

[painey]

If the pound tanks to the dollar I am absolutely fucked.

 

[Hot Coldman]

Whatever the result, this is unequivocally a divided kingdom now.

But this is like... everywhere in the West. No-one reads the same news any more, watches the same TV, listens to the same radio, etc etc. The death of truly mainstream media has fucked any notion of political consensus - everything's gotten too targeted. It's present in the UK as truly as it's present in the US, as it's likely present in Germany.

It'll only get worse tomorrow, as the papers exaggerate the result as a win or a loss depending on how they were leaning prior to the vote, rather than just the people's choice.

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

Worried about how many voters missed out in London with all the train delays.

 

[Stumpokapow]

I lean towards leave, I am not xenophobic or racist or any other number of insults I have seen pitched around, this is half the problem, I also find it ironic that people claim that people who vote out are "uneducated" when surely making statements such as that are rather uneducated or at best naive don't you agree?

The fact that there's a 80 point swing in the split between the college grades and GCSEs doesn't mean that it's impossible to be educated and support leave, but it certainly allows people to generalize about the group compositions. It's like if you learn that someone supports dismantling the NHS, it's not impossible that they're a Labour voter but I don't think we'd pretend there's not a partisan divide on the NHS.

 

[mrklaw]

Sunderland is absolute Leave heartland. Generally poor, northern, old, high unemployment, underperforming industry.

The sort of place that probably objectively benefits from being in Europe.

 

[Psychotext]

Ugh fuck.

 

[brain_stew]

And suddenly our currency is tanking.

 

[Calamari41]

The transition from calm victory lapping to absolute horror and panic in this thread has been fascinating to follow.

 

[spunodi]

Bloody Sunderland! They're not even proper Geordies. Sheesh.

 

[Baleoce]

Wow the GBP is crashing.

It will be erratic all night.

 

[Gandie]

Wow the GBP is crashing.

Get used to it.

 

[Acorn]

You working class leave voters will feel the pain of stripping of rights. Turkeys voting for Christmas.

 

[Mrbob]

The Stocktwits SPY page right now is hilarious. Back and forth.

 

[Tosyn_88]

The financial market sure likes certainty, investors don't like to play Russian roulette with their money. I really hope whatever the outcome, that the UK economy doesn't over contract because if that happens, all fears will be confirmed. What I think many haven't considered is how the government will try to rectify this particular economic shock, how many jobs will be lost, how many will be gained, how many years will it take to stabilise the economy, what export will the UK used to gain competitive advantage, there's so many issues people haven't considered and I blame the government for not giving a detailed educated narrative of both sides.

One thing to consider is Scotland. I don't think Scotland will stand with England to jog through this uncertainty, they will push for a new referendum so they can stay in Europe thus tearing themselves away from the UK.

 

[blastprocessor]

No wonder margin on IG FTSE index contract are £2K per contract!

 

[Moosichu]

So far this thead is much more rewarding than all of E3 in terms of NeoGaf meltdowns.

Unlike E3 some of us are going to lose our livelyhoods. I think meltdowns in this case are warrented.

(I'm not having a meltdown, but I can see why they are more justified in this case)

 

[SymbiantXenos]

People voting in Sunderland thought they were actually voting to LEAVE Sunderland.

 

[Hazzuh]

Where can I follow live updates of the £?

 

[D4Danger]

whatever happens it's pretty clear Labour are fucked.

 

[CrayToes]

People voting inSunderland thought they were actually voting to LEAVE Sunderland.

Lmao

 

[NihonTiger90]

So, watching from the US, but is the assumption that if Leave wins, Scotland will hold another independence referendum?

 

[SuperSah]

After last year, we should have learned these polls are not accurate all the time, come on now.

 

[IlSignorCornetto]

Some please explain to me, does the total popular vote determine the outcome? Or is it winner-takes-all by individual districts 'ala electoral votes by state in the USA?

Does total popular vote nationwide determine anything?

IN a referendum 50% + 1 win.
There are no individual districts

 

[Xun]

I'm generally really fucking concerned here.

Quite frankly this country will be dead to me if we leave.

 

[Makabe]

Where can I follow live updates of the £?

https://www.dailyfx.com/gbp-usd

 

[Plum]

This is my first night I'm bothering to stay up. Whenabouts does it pick up the pace?

 

[Mr. Luchador]

Why are you surprised Sunderland voted leave? It's been a BNP and UKIP base for years, no?

 

[avaya]

Wow the GBP is crashing.

You ain't seen shit yet.

 

[Guerrillas in the Mist]

Need to buy up everything I want in the Steam Sale before the inevitable currency crash.

 

[dealer-]

Leave odds shortened massively compared to two hours ago.

 

[nOoblet16]

Sunderland is absolute Leave heartland. Generally poor, northern, old, high unemployment, underperforming industry.

It's kind of sad how one can guess results like that just based on a region's financial status..especially considering leaving will probably not going to help them.

 

[Audioboxer]

People voting inSunderland thought they were actually voting to LEAVE Sunderland.

LOL.

Sorry, but that was savage.

 

[ferrasvansen]

So, watching from the US, but is the assumption that if Leave wins, Scotland will hold another independence referendum?

Yep inevitable in my opinion.

 

[OverBlood 3]

Been saying for the last few days ignore the polls they are always off the mark.

When he was explaining the idea behind his index it sounded very...thin in terms of reliability. No one was very convinced in the studio.

 

[mrklaw]

Need to go to sleep - have a job interview in London tomorrow - although if we vote leave I wouldn't be surprised if it was postponed.

 

[Hazzuh]

https://www.dailyfx.com/gbp-usd

Thanks homie.

 

[Jezbollah]

Does anyone have a Bugs Bunny sawing off Sunderland gif?

 

[Camp Freddie]

Ok, I've got a pencil with an the end. Do I need to raid one of the counting stations?

 

[Dash_Riprock]

whatever happens it's pretty clear Labour are fucked.

So business as usual then?

 

[stan423321]

I love the fact that BBC's page map has an option of "tie" for a district but it's only for exact tie. A gradient would be way more useful.

By the way why is leave marked blue? Campaigns?

 

[Real Hero]

Why are you surprised Sunderland voted leave? It's been a BNP and UKIP base for years, no?

It's by how much

 

[Flintty]

Why?

Because of my personal beliefs and values. I'm not going into detail in this thread, for obvious reasons (take a look around, I can't be arsed to get into a fight, it's too late for that now). It's not like I have to explain myself.

 

[Acorn]

It's kind of sad how one can guess results like that just based on a region's financial status..especially considering leaving will probably not going to help them.

And that the eu spends money there.

 

[Anth1888]

Why are you surprised Sunderland voted leave? It's been a BNP and UKIP base for years, no?

It's not a matter for of they are Leave/Remain it is the percentage and numbers. It was a higher Leave than it was thought