United Kingdom Referendum on European Union Membership

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Lots of Eurosceptic shouts from the Left in recent days...could make this more interesting.

Here's one: The left must put Britain's EU withdrawal on the agenda (Owen Jones/Guardian)

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Could some SNP supporters vote 'Leave' just in order to get a new independence referendum later?

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It is your right to leave Europe.

"EU" is not the synonym of "Europe".

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GIBRALTAR
Remain - 19,322 (95.91%)
Leave - 823

Viva Gibraltar!

They should have let Jersey, etc. vote as well.

Channel Islands are not in the EU. Neither is the Isle of Man.

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And "honest" enough to use a picture of Syrians entering Slovakia to scare everyone about hordes of Muslims entering the UK

Let's be honest: almost none of those Syrians want to stay in Slovakia; they are merely passing through it.

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Almost half of Newcastle votes Leave.

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Newcastle is full of middle class and large students population (Remain friendly demographics)
it shouldve been 58-42% for Remain

but the students will have gone home because its bloody june, that's what you do

But if the students' polling location is in Newcastle, does that mean that the students who went home didn't vote at all?

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It's happening gif.

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BBC says turnout in London is slightly below expected.

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BBC reporter says that an anonymous Labour figure believes Leave will win.

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Hopefully this means further integration for the remainder of Europe now that they are not weighed down by the UK.

You think there's really much appetite for the pan European state on the continent?

I doubt that very much.

Some polls have shown that half of French and Swedish citizens would want a similar referendum. Of course, their governments are unlikely to grant them one.

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Barking & Dagenham for Leave; good performance for Leave.

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So will Northern Ireland be majority Leave or Stay?

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Coventry votes Leave. A 50-50 model had it voting for Stay.

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Milton Keynes for Leave. A 50-50 model had it going for Stay.

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Wolverhampton 62.6 OUT

A 50-50 model had it going barely for Stay.

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SHEFFIELD:
Remain - 130,735 (49%)
Leave - 136,018 (51%)

Yet again a town that was supposed to go for Stay in a 50-50 scenario.

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Nottingham goes for Leave, barely. In a 50-50 scenario it was supposed to be Stay.

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Congratulations to all those who are no doubt delighted: Putin shills, PRC bots, trots, fascists, Nazis, reprobates, people who plan on being dead in the next year, anti-Semites, peddlers of Violence, and those who despise Britain and wish to see the Perfidious Albion fail 

You genuinely believe that a majority of the British people fall into these categories?

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Farage may have failed to win an MP seat half-a-dozen times, but he won the one vote that mattered, it seems.

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It is impressive what Farage accomplished.  Totally unexpected.

Farage may have failed to win an MP seat half-a-dozen times, but he won the one vote that mattered, it seems.

Hmm?

Farage didn't lead the Leave campaign (they actually tried to keep him off the airwaves as much as possible as he's not popular) and didn't trigger this vote.

Isn't the whole reason for the existence of this referendum the fact that Cameron saw it as an effective way to stop Tory voters from defecting to UKIP in the 2015 election?

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Southampton for Leave.

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So, why isn't the Isle of Man in this? Or for that matter, any of the oversea dependencies?

Isle of Man was never in the EU. Nor were any other British oversea areas, with the exception of Gibraltar (which did vote).

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ComRes poll shows that only 1% of "Leave" voters have regrets about the decision (and 4% of "Remain" voters are happy with how things ended up): https://twitter.com/stephentall/status/746810127584464896