Posted on 06/23/2016 2:25:24 PM PDT by goldstategop
Live coverage of the result of the EU referendum.
This is a live BBC stream starting at 21:55 BST.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Whoa! Belfast voting 52% to leave?!
Gerry and the Pacemakers were a tight band with a handful of hits.
IIRC, they were from Liverpool and close to the Beatles.
LOL.. Do NOT come to FR if you want honest reporting. Emotion and hope always cloud the “reporting”.
now for all over is at Remain 50.7% Leave 49.3%
the Brit announcers are revived and gloating...
I lived near a village called Foxholes. I assured myself there were no atheists.
Wait...no.
Shitterton is actually Washington D.C.!
Many of them have more urgent concerns than just taking back control of petty legislation making from the EU bureaucrats. If the UK votes to leave, the pound will likely slide by around 15% (just as it did when they withdrew from the ERM in 1992). George Soros made a billion pounds profit from shorting sterling back then. Do you think the Hedge Funds and currency speculators are just going to sit on their hands rather than profit at the UK's expense again?
If Brexit happens then the UK economy is likely to contract by at least 10% and unemployment will increase in the short-term. Money matters to most Brits more than the freedom to ignore pedantic EU directives about the maximum power rating of a vacuum cleaner, the use of metric units in shops or the flavors of e-cigarettes you are allowed to buy etc. Following your principles does not put food on the table. A lot of people will suffer if the UK economy goes into recession and many Brits would prefer not to risk that after just getting out of the last global recession.
How would one properly refer to residents? Shittertonians?
Indeed, Lennon/McCartney wrote a couple of their songs. They were limited to Gerry’s voice.
That was the magic of the Beatles: they had four individual sounding voices, but ALSO had a fifth, completely different sounding harmony. Truly amazing. Even allowing that Ringo was barely a singer, you just don’t see many bands where you have that many leads. It makes for tremendous song/sound variation.
The British TV networks have said it will take from 16,250,000 to 16,750,000 votes for a win. Neither side has 2,000,000 yet, so there is a very long way to go.
Was that expected?
yeah who was claiming that Sky News had projected 56/44 for LEAVE ???
I don’t see anything about that on their website.... is that b.s.?
LOL!
theyre not voting the polls closed at 10pm there 5 hours ago...
now theyre counting and reporting the results...
enthusiasm about actual facts is one thing (good)
b.s. about b.s. is another (bad)
The good news is only a 56% turnout in Glasgow! Other areas much higher.
http://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/rngs/1/792/1115/index.html
I think it was UKrepublican
Too much ale I suppose.
I think it was UKrepublican
Too much ale I suppose.
As I said earlier. It will be a nail biter... super close. And of course, remain will win. No matter what the numbers are. This is pure theater. There is no way the British and EU government will let decades of work be undone in an afternoon by a vote of the rubes.
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