Posted on 06/23/2016 2:32:04 AM PDT by UKrepublican
Voting is under way in a historic referendum on whether the UK should remain a member of the European Union or leave. A record 46,499,537 people are entitled to take part, according to provisional figures from the Electoral Commission. Polling stations opened at 07:00 BST and will close at 22:00 BST. It is only the third nationwide referendum in UK history and comes after a four-month battle for votes between the Leave and Remain campaigns. In common with other broadcasters, the BBC is limited in what it can report while polls are open but you can follow the results as they come in across the BBC after polls close on Thursday evening.
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bkmk
That is obviously right.
A mediveal feudal society requires a different government from what what needed for people like Colt in the industrial revolution.
This was in fact Hayek’s argument, wasn’t it?
The more complicated society gets the more freedom (approaching anarchy) is needed to cope with it.
There is no time for Stalin like 5 year plans.
Here in Australia, the special cable channel that has been set up for our own Federal election in just over a week, is actually dedicated today to coverage of the UK referendum results, so I will be following that during the day. It's the last day of school here for the term and my students will be watching it too (I teach history and politics and can justify it on both grounds - otherwise I might have taken a day of unpaid leave to keep up with it all).
I want a 'Leave' result - speaking as a joint British/Australian citizen - but am fairly pessimistic as the count begins. I'm afraid I think there are too many people around now who vote based on short term impacts on their finances rather than on issues of patriotism and philosophy - and Remain has run a pretty effective scare campaign on the potential economic impact of Brexit.
Even if it is lost, though, I don't believe this is the end. The EU is destined to continue to move more and more to totalitarianism, and eventually it will collapse because of that - but if this chance is lost, Britain could suffer a lot of damage before that happens.
Farage has pretty much conceded. Quite extraordinary
Watching ballot boxes being thrown from person to person in a human chain in Sunderland (which prides itself on being the first area to report a result in every election).
We’ll see how it goes. Personally I’m not so optimistic, but you never know.
CSPAN is relaying ITV coverage, BBC World News will start using BBC coverage at 6pm, which is already streaming.
Reminds me of a line from a rap song. Some of it is actually listenable, believe it or not.
“I know the grass is always greener on the other side, but you picked da weeds!”
Estimated turnout of 83.7% - that’s not good. High turnout is expected to favour Remain as more people will have gone for the status quo.
Well if “remain” wins, he’ll have a lot of opportunities to say “see, I told you so.”
In the Wall Street Journal Live Thread comments, someone posted that ballots should be marked with pen.
Naturalman,
I did my education in Australia.
We had parties for the Cricket championships etc celebrating Australia.
So love Australia.
I also love Europe.
I am in favour of strong European cooperation.
I like our space probes, I like our Hadron Collider (suck that America)
Europe is bound for reform no matter what.
An, England with stay.
Does Ukip go away?
They will have the support of half the nation...
Quite Suspicious....
There’s no downside for Farage in ‘conceding’. If he’s wrong and Leave wins - he’s got what he wants and the statement means nothing. If he’s right and Remain wins, he’s already on the front foot for future campaigning.
It just doesn’t do morale any Good.
Sky News has just commented on the fact that morale seems rather high in the UKIP meeting room for a group that really thinks it has lost.
Apparently there is a UKIP poll of 20,000 showing leave 52 remain 48 - dont forget over 6 million postal votes apparently going strongly leave - dont know, still not very confident.
YouGov (I think you mean) survey puts Remain ahead 52/48.
Closest thing to an exit poll.
Farage just said that remain will win. Go to the uk daily mail for the article. They say he’s conceding.
I have read the fix is in. Soros owns the voting machines?
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