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Shocking Poll: 52% of Brits Now Favor Leaving the European Union
PJ Media ^ | 06-02-2016 | Michael van der Galien

Posted on 06/02/2016 9:42:52 AM PDT by Michael van der Galien

A shocking new poll has been released in Britain by The Guardian, one of the country's leading newspapers. According to the results, 52% of British voters now believe their country's interests are best served by getting out of the European Union.

A so-called Brexit would cause a political earthquake in Europe. As we reported earlier, it's likely that it would result in more referendums in other member states about the fate of the EU.

The last month or two, the European powers that be in Brussels were sitting back while polls showed the Remain camp firmly in the lead. That has now all changed:

Public opinion has shifted towards the UK leaving the EU, two Guardian/ICM polls suggest as the referendum campaign picks up pace – with voters split 52% -48% in favour of Brexit, whether surveyed online or by phone. Previous polls have tended to show voters surveyed online to be more in favour of Britain leaving the EU. But in the latest ICM research, carried out for the Guardian, both methodologies yielded the same result – a majority in favour of leaving.

“Our poll rather unhinges a few accepted orthodoxies,” said ICM’s director, Martin Boon. “It is only one poll but, in a rather unexpected reverse of polling assumptions so far, both our phone poll and our online poll are consistent on both vote intentions and on the EU referendum.”

When those without a firm opinion on the matter are included, the Leave camp now leads 45% to 42%. Once the undecideds are filtered out, Leave proponents like former mayor of London Boris Johnson and UKIP leader Nigel Farage are firmly in the lead with a majority of British voters backing them...

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To: Michael van der Galien

Not going to happen.

The Euros will lie, cheat, steal, murder, deceive, etc., etc., etc. to keep the U.K. in their trap.


41 posted on 06/02/2016 12:08:59 PM PDT by TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed (Yahuah Yahusha)
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To: Michael van der Galien

Good. Get out. Be a free people.


42 posted on 06/02/2016 12:11:21 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper ((Just say no to HRC))
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To: TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed

>Not going to happen.

>The Euros will lie, cheat, steal, murder, deceive, etc., etc., etc. to keep the U.K. in their trap.

Yep.


43 posted on 06/02/2016 12:13:22 PM PDT by RedWulf (End Free trade.)
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To: SunkenCiv

In other words, older Brits are more patriotic. Younger Brits and colonists want to be subjects of Eurabia, either in a British or Scottish province.


44 posted on 06/02/2016 12:22:37 PM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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To: rmlew
Younger British, just like the younger Scots, are more than a little bit non-native in origin, and want to cleave to the EU. Scottish "independence" was really about destroying everything Scotland but its name, and suckling on the EU hooter.

45 posted on 06/02/2016 2:30:45 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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To: Yashcheritsiy

Geert Wilders does a lot of talking.

My humble guess is that if the UK says yes....then some ballot attempt in the Netherlands will occur by spring of 2017. It would be anybody’s guess what might occur. The thing is....most Dutch are tied into trade and commerce. It’s been that way for a thousand years. As long as the EU was pro-commerce, no one would say much negative.


46 posted on 06/06/2016 9:52:42 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: pepsionice

That’s just it - the EU isn’t really “pro-commerce” in the genuine sense of that term. They’re pro-monopolism and “social capitalism,” but not for genuine economic freedom.


47 posted on 06/07/2016 7:53:59 AM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (You can't have a constitution without a country to go with it)
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