EU Referendum: EXIT POLL

[Treacle Toes]

All leave voters are like the white van man that shouted 'leave' seemingly at myself and another woman out of the van window whilst in traffic today. 100% fact?

Calm the fuck down everyone.

 

[Wookey]

Ooh, I'm all giddy like Christmas!

 

[Fez909]

I can't compete with Fez909's Scottish beer and Swiss chocolate but I ate a French golden delicious with my meal, I do have some English pink ladys and English I think conference pears in my fruit bowl though to maintain balance.

This is what we need more of to keep this thread interesting.

What's everyone eating and drinking until the result comes in? Don't forget to include the place of provenance

 

[SpookyFrank]

I'm off to the shop to get some Polish beer while there's still time.

e2a: I don't mean before we leave the EU, I mean before the shop shuts.

 

[Ax^]

a vote to leave gave this man a happy..

that's just a stain some people are going to have to live with....











*gets coat*

 

[Brixton Hatter]

I'm drinking English cider (the UK cider industry - mainly small producers - has been attacked by both the EU and the UK Govt.)

 

[Fez909]

a vote to leave gave this man a happy..

that's just a stain some people are going to have to live with....











*gets coat*

If you're gonna play that game, I'd rather make a powerless cunt like Farrage happy than two actually powerful cunts

"Ax^ voted remain "

 

[SpookyFrank]

Well nobody wins this game, obviously.

 

[Ax^]

Ax^ the irish immigrant getting a vote on Uk independence

did not think i was going to go for it did ya fez

 

[NoXion]

Depends on what counts as winning. I imagine some of the deliberate abstainers get to feel pretty smug about sitting on their hands.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Depends on what counts as winning. I imagine some of the deliberate abstainers get to feel pretty smug about sitting on their hands.

I was sitting on my hands in the polling booth until I remembered that the phrase is 'spoiling your ballot' not 'soiling your ballot'.

 

[chilango]

I've found w/c and m/c people vofting Remain, the most ardent Remainers being the lower m/c liberals who vote Labour or Green.

I've also found w/c and m/c people voting Leave. The most ardent Leavers being older, comfortably off m/c people with second homes and buy to let's.

 

[Ax^]

If you're gonna play that game, I'd rather make a powerless cunt like Farrage happy than two actually powerful cunts

"Ax^ voted remain "

giving more power to these 2 cunts

tbf just stirring the pot really

 

[ska invita]

I quite like referendums. We should have more of them. Was thinking about the Swiss model on the way back from the polling station and that might have been what triggered my chocolate impulse buy at the offie.

I wish this was a regular occurance.

had a couple of people say to me 'we shouldt even have had to have this referendum - its too difficult and i dont feel qualified'. I think its great - the more democratic power the better, to which they answered that it would be fine if there was more of a culture and better education around it, starting at school. Fair point.

Anyhow it looks like I'm not going to vote, cant bring myself to support either side and cant be bothered to go there just to spoil a ballot.

Depends on what counts as winning. I imagine some of the deliberate abstainers get to feel pretty smug about sitting on their hands.

No it feels shit too

All leave voters are like the white van man that shouted 'leave' seemingly at myself and another woman out of the vanwindow whilst in traffic today. 100% fact?

I had someone throw a coin at me from a van and shout Theres A Euro - Go Back To Poland at me once (a judgement made I guess because I was wearing paint splattered clothes in the street).
What a dick.

 

[NoXion]

Personalities, the true heart of politics.

 

[Treacle Toes]

Personal experiences, don't shape a person's politics at all?

 

[J Ed]

Someone I know who is very middle class and affluent is virulently pro leave, (also quite right wing) so for me the correlation is not 100%.

Yeah, I am sure that you are right but to me it has been striking. I also think it feeds into the overall tone of the campaign, like everyone else in this country I have seen and heard so much bullshit over the past month in relation to this campaign from both sides but the Remain campaign stalwarts have really outdone the arrogance of the Leavers. No matter how nonsensical the claims of Remainers, they are always conveyed with a 'we know best' tone.

 

[Ax^]

thankfully this shit is over with tomorrow and we can got back to let

Tory's have their own fucking arguments

*shakes fist at the sky*

 

[Fez909]

had a couple of people say to me 'we shouldt even have had to have this referendum - its too difficult and i dont feel qualified'. I think its great - the more democratic power the better, to which they answered that it would be fine if there was more of a culture and better education around it, starting at school. Fair point.

Anyhow it looks like I'm not going to vote, cant bring myself to support either side and cant be bothered to go there just to spoil a ballot.

No it feels shit too

I had someone throw a coin at me from a van and shout Theres A Euro - Go Back To Poland at me once (a judgement made I guess because I was wearing paint splattered clothes in the street).
What a dick.

Liked for the first part, not the end

Also, seeing as you like voting, perhaps you'd like to participate in my referendum referendum: Should we have more referendums?

 

[J Ed]

Grow up, you Leavers, you are going to cause WW3... and do up your tie.

 

[Fez909]

giving more power to these 2 cunts

tbf just stirring the pot really

Good effort, but one is a guy who just lost an election to a Muslim in a period of extreme Islamophobia, and the other is someone who was demoted by his boss a year ago. Cunts? Absolutely. Powerful? Not really.

 

[SpookyFrank]

There's no correlation between class and remain/leave preference among the people I know but then I don't know that many people and I don't keep a detailed dossier on how middle or working class any of them are.

My friend's mum, as working class as deep-fried coal, threatened her with disownment if she didn't vote remain. Which proves nothing except that you can prove anything with anecdotes.

 

[ska invita]

Liked for the first part, not the end

Also, seeing as you like voting, perhaps you'd like to participate in my referendum referendum: Should we have more referendums?

cant be bothered to vote in your poll either

 

[Fez909]

cant be bothered to vote in your poll either

Typically lazy British. No wonder the Poles are over here doing your jobs

 

[J Ed]

had a couple of people say to me 'we shouldt even have had to have this referendum - its too difficult and i dont feel qualified'. I think its great - the more democratic power the better, to which they answered that it would be fine if there was more of a culture and better education around it, starting at school. Fair point.

I have heard this as well, but I've seen a fair few university graduates work themselves into an anxious frenzy because they have been convinced of things that are obviously not true in relation to the referendum. I don't think lack of education in and of itself is the problem here.

 

[Ax^]

Good effort, but one is a guy who just lost an election to a Muslim in a period of extreme Islamophobia, and the other is someone who was demoted by his boss a year ago. Cunts? Absolutely. Powerful? Not really.

Not that I want to defend Boris but he stepped down as mayor so he could line himself up to be the next PM
with the Britexit ballocks

 

[weltweit]

Not that I want to defend Boris but he stepped down as mayor so he could line himself up to be the next PM
with the Britexit ballocks

Indeed, it was Goldsmith that lost to Khan in the mayoral election.

 

[ska invita]

I have heard this as well, but I've seen a fair few university graduates work themselves into an anxious frenzy because they have been convinced of things that are obviously not true in relation to the referendum. I don't think lack of education in and of itself is the problem here.

...I think what a lot of people have thought is "fuck this is complicated"....

But anyhow, more mob rule please! I mean, more referendum. Just not one about the death penalty. That would be a bad idea.

 

[Treacle Toes]

I have heard this as well, but I've seen a fair few university graduates work themselves into an anxious frenzy because they have been convinced of things that are obviously not true in relation to the referendum. I don't think lack of education in and of itself is the problem here.

I've heard the same things as ska invita also from people who are graduates. Can't speak for him but I didn't read him as meaning that. A wider point is that part of why people don't feel qualified. The last referendum was over 30 years ago...I think many don't feel qualified because of a lack of confidence and familiarity with the process.

 

[DotCommunist]

was on the way back from corby and passed st peters which is hosting the ceromonies. Tried to vote in there but its william knibb ward (a famous Abolitionist whose name is everywhere in this county. And in some place in Jamaica apparently. Missionary to there). But its not my ward. My chances to get some electoral fraud in thwarted I walked the mile home and x'd it in St Marys ward (allegedly the mother of god.)