LIVE RESULTS: BBC, ITV, Sky News Forecast UK Will Leave EU
Should they stay or should they go now?
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The United Kingdom has voted to stay or leave the European Union. They closed the polls and people have started counting the votes.
The results remained close, but the Leave campaign is inching closer and closer to reality.
BBC forecasts UK votes to #Leave the European Unionhttps://t.co/itsARDBbYF #EURef #Brexit pic.twitter.com/gASaxpdNi3
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) June 24, 2016
Sky News projects UK vote to Leave European Union #EURef https://t.co/GC6f54oIyE
— Sky News (@SkyNews) June 24, 2016
This is the best #Brexit tweet so far:
https://twitter.com/GlomarResponder/status/746146090198700033
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BIRMINGHAM voted to leave. BIRMINGHAM.
Birmingham votes to Leave. Full results: https://t.co/4hLZofNaC7 #EURef pic.twitter.com/6m86YJwgSF
— BBC Election (@bbcelection) June 24, 2016
Did anyone else notice that the BBC's latest #EUref interviewees appeared to be Ron, Harry and Hermione? pic.twitter.com/rNP2kkiBPu
— Scott Latham (@ScottALatham) June 24, 2016
Glasgow decided to remain.
Glasgow votes to Remain. Full results: https://t.co/4hLZofNaC7 #EURef pic.twitter.com/t4hDaJEB1g
— BBC Election (@bbcelection) June 24, 2016
Oxford also wants to remain.
Oxford votes to Remain. Full results: https://t.co/4hLZofNaC7 #EURef pic.twitter.com/KMX6e2wG25
— BBC Election (@bbcelection) June 24, 2016
London votes to remain.
City of London votes to Remain. Full results: https://t.co/4hLZofNaC7 #EURef pic.twitter.com/pJhbeDETti
— BBC Election (@bbcelection) June 24, 2016
Results so far #EUref: pic.twitter.com/auBVYsQEOF
— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) June 24, 2016
Sunderland, #EUref result:
Remain: 38.7% (51,930)
Leave: 61.3% (82,394)— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) June 23, 2016
And with that, the pound (which hit its highest value in 2016) has tumbled a bit….
https://twitter.com/owenlmeredith/status/746121135654305793
Look at the strong voter turnout!!!
Whatever the #Brexit outcome, voter turnout is spectacular.
Dwarfing U.S. turnout in presidential races. pic.twitter.com/c5TfQid9Kd
— Judge Don Willett (@JusticeWillett) June 23, 2016
https://twitter.com/infamyreborn92/status/746099060268929024
Gibraltar, #EUref result:
Remain: 95.9% (19,322)
Leave: 4.1% (823)— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) June 23, 2016
Sign of things to come? The pound reaches its highest value in 2016.
The U.K. pound touched its 2016 high after poll released as #Brexit voting ended showed 52% backed remaining in EU https://t.co/AgEeeQ24gf
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) June 23, 2016
https://twitter.com/benatipsosmori/status/746092253228183552
Politician Reactions:
.@DanHannanMEP on #Brexit vote: "This is not about walking away from Europe. It's about repatriating laws." #Greta pic.twitter.com/aafQC3pfSZ
— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 23, 2016
Daniel Hannan on why he's supporting #Brexit: "We want to take back control of our laws, of our democracy, of our borders, & of our taxes"
— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 23, 2016
Politicians for the Leave campaign have urged David Cameron to stay on as Prime Minister.
Nigel Farage told The Telegraph he believes Remain will win with 52% of the vote.
The polls have now closed, democracy has been served + we await the verdict of the people. Thanks to everyone involved + everyone who voted
— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) June 23, 2016
Nigel Farage has already admitted the Leave campaign lost their battle to leave the EU.
#Brexit campaigner @Nigel_Farage is said to be already conceding defeat. He has reportedly said that #Remain "will edge it" #EUref
— DW News (@dwnews) June 23, 2016
Thank you everyone who voted to keep Britain stronger, safer & better off in Europe – and thousands of @StrongerIn campaigners around the UK
— David Cameron (@David_Cameron) June 23, 2016
From Media and Entertainment:
Um, Lindsay Lohan has some very strong opinions about #Brexit.
https://twitter.com/lindsaylohan/status/746137993723936769
https://twitter.com/lindsaylohan/status/746137993723936769
https://twitter.com/lindsaylohan/status/746133322779234304
https://twitter.com/lindsaylohan/status/746129414275141632
William Newton, art blogger extraordinaire, told me that Jose Canseco also commented on Brexit:
Make no mistake Brexit will crater the UK into recession and the pound will do a 25% faceplant. Capital will flee like its pants are on fire
— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) June 21, 2016
Friday's Daily Mail front page:
The £100bn parasite bankers#tomorrowspaperstoday #bbcpapers #EUref pic.twitter.com/OXShDSXvhK— Nick Sutton (@suttonnick) June 23, 2016
They are speeding through the ballot papers ALREADY in Sunderland #EUref pic.twitter.com/qGWFwLjOUl
— Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) June 23, 2016
The Sun released their front page for tomorrow:
Polls have closed with up to 46.5 million voting. Restless sleep for some before they wake to this front pg #Brexit pic.twitter.com/9jdiOf4JeN
— Teresa Tang (@TeresaTangCNA) June 23, 2016
Uh oh….maybe they should have released this sooner? It may have caused a landslide!
https://twitter.com/ElsaCalduch/status/746098186607984640
Waiting for the first ballots to arrive at the Glasgow count https://t.co/Hba3ISCout
— Libby Brooks (@libby_brooks) June 23, 2016
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Dewey Defeats Truman?
The news is dark and full of terrors: One casualty of Brexit could be ‘Game of Thrones’. http://nypost.com/2016/06/23/how-brexit-could-endanger-game-of-thrones/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow&sr_share=twitter
Perhaps, but their are plenty of other locations that GoT can use that offer tax breaks and incentives. Iceland and New Zealand come to mind, especially if the whole “Winter is Coming” is a literal statement for future seasons of the show.
Politicians are the same everywhere. Most all I have read supporting the “stay” camp only pushes the economic risks of leaving. Absolutely no mention of the other “freedom” issues from having unelected bureaucrats overruling UK law.
Unelected bureaucrats running the asylum is working so well for us. sark
History repeats itself:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-23/pound-surge-builds-as-polls-show-u-k-to-remain-in-eu-yen-slips
says the opposite.
Remember that the UK banns exit pollin so the only wayt o know is to count the votes.
I believe the remain vote will be rigged and/or the Muslim community is being encouraged to vote to remain. I may not a Brit but I do not believe they should commit national suicide by remaining in a self-blood sucking organization.
Ironically, my lifetime list of “Things I’ll Never See Before I Die” included #8:
“Lindsay Lohan will live tweet the Brexit referendum results in 2016.”
Boy did I miss that one…
0400 GMT, Five O’Clock in the morning here in Sweden, six hours after the polls have closed in the UK, I cannot eat popcorn as I am on the edge of my seat.
Don’t want to jinx it as I am listening to SkyNews, Nigel Farage(UKIP) has just declared victory….
I think I am pleased but I am going to have to figure out how to put a seat belt on my couch as this either way it goes is going to shake things up. Oh boy, this is BIG. -Paul
Paul, I live in the UK but am an American. I have Swedish colleagues who refer to the UK as “the big brother” as their opinions on things are so similar.
My Swedish colleagues are fearful of the future as UK exits EU. How is it that you are not the same?
And I saw your footballer got red carded for farting. Wow, is the food that bad? 🙂
Since Brexit isn’t legally binding, what happens if “leave” wins the referendum and the Parliament tells them to piss off?
The MPs will promptly be run out of town on a rail, with the mob of torches and pitchforks close behind.
Campaigns in the UK aren’t the nice, polite things that we have here in the US. You cross your voters THERE and really, really bad stuff starts to happen to your party organization really fast.
Good for the UK. I’m still waiting for the reasoning for why the UK cannot still participate in free trade amongst the EU countries along with free travel. Or will the UK encounter more cry babies, ala the Democrat party?
Will they have to cave in the chunnel?
I hope they vote leave. However, it’s worth remembering that the biggest eurosceptic of hem all is based in Kremlin.
So what does Miley Cyrus think?
Will this mean some of that money now sent to Brussels can be better spent on the Ministry of Silly Walks?
Being serious: which country will be next? Italy?
Not if Geert Wilders gets his way.
I used to live in Italy; they’re broke. Same for Spain, France, Greece, Portugal and (lesser) Ireland. They will all stay for the free money.
Anyone with a solid economy will now want to leave. Germany will be left holding the bag.
“Germany will be left holding the bag.” Couldn’t happen to a better bunch.
Done!
http://www.bbc.com/news/politics/eu_referendum/results
#LeaveWins
Now stand by for the petulant toddlers in the EU to do everything in their power to crash the British economy in revenge.
Not unlike what I predict happening if Trump wins. If Trump does win, Yellen is going to jack the interest rate to where it SHOULD be in the 2-3% range and instantly crash the economy.
And then we’ll listen to months of Democrat bullshit about how Trump is to blame for destroying the Obama economy of sugar, rainbows and unicorns.
Well, here’s another wrinkle. Under EU Directive, the UK members of the EU Parliament do *not* need to follow the will of their people. They follow Brussels. So will the UK really leave?????
Seeing references to politicians in other countries calling for referendums to leave the EU as well. Apparently in Sweden, only 30 – 35% favored remaining in the EU if Britain left. The French and the Dutch are calling for referendums. This could be an interesting summer. What if this catches like wildfire and spreads across Europe?
It’s the EU death spiral that they knew damn well was going to happen.
The prosperous countries are sick of propping up whining takers like Greece. With Britain gone look for Sweden, Germany and France to be next. As each prosperous country jumps ship the others will follow and eventually only the bankrupt takers will be left.
The EU just died. Good riddance.
Hail, Britannia.
Perhaps we are on our way to dumping Obama and Clinton and the GOPe on the trash-heap of history.
Good job on the unfettered immigration Frau Merkel, It wouldn’t have been possible without you.
!00% of the vote has been counted. Leave won 52-48. It should be a lovely day in the UK. Bravo, Mr. Farage!
I’m so glad our good British cousins found their spines. Now if only we could find ours.
I hope the posts up above suggesting that other EU countries may start the “leave” process become reality.
I should think Italy would want to get the hell out, mainly because of EU regulations regarding immigration. Beautiful Italy is being overrun with African and Middle Eastern thugs.
Unfortunately this doesn’t necessarily indicate the start of wholesale flight from the EU wasteland. Britain is unique in that it has longstanding ties—economic, cultural, financial, military—to both the east (the rest of Europe) and the west (Canada and the US). Which way it might jump has been a standing question ever since the modern European alliance structures developed in the early twentieth century.
In other words, if Britain leaves, it has—in many very real ways—some place to go.
This is not true of, say, France, or Spain, or Italy. They’re pretty much stuck with their geographic neighbors no matter what.
UK to Euro: “Bugger Off”. The headline writes itself. And good for them.
The initial European treaties were set up to provide a common financial and commercial market and remove travel restrictions between members. If things thad stopped right there, the Common Market could have lasted for centuries.
But as usual, hubris brings nemesis. The Eurocrats thought they deserved more -to print money, issue “directives”, collect taxes, set wages, manage immigration, run the courts, etc. They claimed the moral high ground in classic SJW fashion, writing a fundamental rights charter in 2009 that guaranteed rights like free health care, pensions, equal treatment, etc alongside traditional rights like voting and free expression. Inspired by the UN Declaration of Human Rights naturally where you nod in agreement for the first twenty articles and then laugh or weep at the last ten which remove all personal responsibility of any kind and replace it with government social mandates.
The exit clause was put in during the 2009 treaty, but its not because they thought anyone would use it. The treaty also set up direct elections for EU parliament members, so if, for example, the UK had a problem selling eggs by the kilo rather than by the dozen – yes that was a real EU food labeling directive, although the EU caved quickly – then the UK would bring the matter up at the next European Parliament session rather than just ignoring it. So in that context, the exit clause was more of a “this is how we do things, and if you don’t like it you can always leave”.
Lots of us thought the currency and the “parliament”, such as it was – administrative acts rarely originated in parliament – would fall apart, but this quickly? The EU is the new “Sick Man of Europe” and the physical currency hasn’t even hit its fifteen year mark and the treaty mentioned above is under 10. But hey, it’s the 21st century, stuff is supposed to move fast I guess. Good riddance to old rubbish.
Wait. I thought Obama wanted Britain to stay in the EU, and they voted to leave. I don’t understand. Don’t they know that our little petulant narcissist in chief knows what is best for everybody?
I think he pushed some fence-sitters over to the exit side. It would be nice to hear from someone actually over there.
It is interesting that Mr. Trump had the wisdom to be in UK at time of Brexit vote so he could tell press that in opposition to Obama and Clinton the UK would be at the Front Of Line as it should be as our longest and strongest Ally.
Face it, God wanted Brexit and wants Trump TOO !!