EU referendum

EU referendum

  • In

    Votes: 503 47.9%

  • Out

    Votes: 547 52.1%
  • Total voters
    1,050
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Are these folks in Scottish Highlands and Islands that are all voting the Syrians who have been given free houses in the Scottish Highlands and Islands?
 
SiMCFC said:
London will outnumber them all though mate. Too big an area with a massive percentage of them being immigrants. Nothing wrong with that either, all big citys are the same. New York, Munich, Paris etc.
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I agree, but it's easy to conflate "South" with "London", especially in this vote. I have family members who live and work in London and they can't fathom why anyone would vote "out" but, as I point out to them at every opportunity, they live in a very different Britain to that experienced by the "masses". This is an amazing night - for so many reasons. I took my 5yr old daughter with me to vote. After marking my paper the counter said my daughter could pop my paper into the box. True to form, she dropped it! And the counter could see what I'd marked. Cue gasps of horror. My daughter asked why nobody could see my cross. Because that's democracy! And it's bloody brilliant. Wall to wall coverage on TV, high octane debates at work, and engagement across the populace.

But, back to your point - sadly, I fear London and the nationalists in Scotland, Wales and N. Ireland may swing it. But that's politics. And I love it!!
 
johnnytapia said:
I agree, but it's easy to conflate "South" with "London", especially in this vote. I have family members who live and work in London and they can't fathom why anyone would vote "out" but, as I point out to them at every opportunity, they live in a very different Britain to that experienced by the "masses". This is an amazing night - for so many reasons. I took my 5yr old daughter with me to vote. After marking my paper the counter said my daughter could pop my paper into the box. True to form, she dropped it! And the counter could see what I'd marked. Cue gasps of horror. My daughter asked why nobody could see my cross. Because that's democracy! And it's bloody brilliant. Wall to wall coverage on TV, high octane debates at work, and engagement across the populace.

But, back to your point - sadly, I fear London and the nationalists in Scotland, Wales and N. Ireland may swing it. But that's politics. And I love it!!
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That's a really well thought out post mate, cheers! I can relate to pretty much all of it minus your little one! Glad to see you are teaching her young though, wish more parents had done the same personally.
 
stony said:
Same for Portsmouth.
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I did my degree at Portsmouth Polytechnic. Very much a working class town with very little love for students and very, very white demographic when I was there - late 80s.

As an aside, one thing that comes out loud and clear from this vote: Labour is fucked.
 
Just heard Warrington will be about 3am, Manchester are slowing people down for some reason.

"We are waiting for Manchester to verify theirs. We have counted the number of votes in the box matches the number of people crossed off the list. Ready to count the yes/no's now!! Turn out was 73% for Warrington compared to the local election that was like 18%"
 
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