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What do you think the result of the EU Membership Referendum will be tomorrow? Personally, I see that the polling' pretty tight, with Leave just slightly ahead, but often the undecideds break for the status quo so I'm thinking Remain wins by a hair.
What do you think the result of the EU Membership Referendum will be tomorrow? Personally, I see that the polling' pretty tight, with Leave just slightly ahead, but often the undecideds break for the status quo so I'm thinking Remain wins by a hair.
No "I don't know, it will be close" option. Here's what we do know, whichever side wins it will be very close. We know that whichever side wins, almost half the voting population will still want the other result, and they're not going to change their minds even though they lost a vote.
No, but it will silence it for one generation if the Quebec referendums are anything to go by.
What do you think the result of the EU Membership Referendum will be tomorrow? Personally, I see that the polling' pretty tight, with Leave just slightly ahead, but often the undecideds break for the status quo so I'm thinking Remain wins by a hair.
And not the only one. On big questions like this often there is only one chance per generation to make a change, we are talking 20-30 years in between. We can not live well in turmoil, so we instinctively avoid it.
Also learning from Quebec, after a while the only people who supported independence will be dying. That is what is happening in Quebec, the older generation, the one that supported Quebec sovereignty, is now dying off and if there was to be another referendum for some reason the No side would readily win.
Ya but you cant predict which way it will go, I saw reporting that the old want to stay and the young want to go, which of true is the opposite of what had been expected all those years ago when the EU was being put together. The theory was at the time that all they needed was to get the SOB up and running and it would show everyone how great it was, no one would even consider leaving. That is not what happened.
I have been hearing the exact opposite. It also makes sense that the youth would want to stay while the old want to leave. The youth rely on an EU driven economy for jobs, they take advantage of European free movement, they are more sympathetic to migrants and refugees, etc. The older generation however are the ones most likely to be anti-immigrant, lose their jobs to migrants, generally work in older industries less tied to the EU, do not really take advantage of free movement, etc. UK youth also do not support UKIP or the Conservative party, the only parties with really any members supporting leave.
If they leave their will be huge economic consequences. Just in banking alone.I just checked and you are right:
Brexit: Who’s Voting What - WSJ.com
However my point that we were not supposed to be facing a real chance that people would not want to be part of the EU stands.
If they leave their will be huge economic consequences. Just in banking alone.
Then you have Scotland who is firmly in the remain camp.
If they left they are on the outside with no voice.
The exit camp has been using, or really misusing migration and numbers.
Although there's a heck of a lot of emotion on the pro-Brexit side, I feel that common sense, cooler heads, and economic self preservation will prevail at the end of the day.
the leave campaign was gaining serious momentum untill the unfortunate shooting. The fact that the leave campaign didn't immediately collapse shows they have staying power. Whatever the result, I think there will be another referendum, especially if the public does vote for leave by a slim margin.
This is going to be a 51/49 poll, just you all see.
Not sure about "cooler heads", but those folks over there are really, really used to a nanny state. And the nanny is threatening their entitlements if they vote Leave. In fact it highlights how ****ed over they've been by the whole EU crap that a half of them poll out as wanting to leave, even though they've been raised and controlled by the state.
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