Brexit results

[DavidDvorkin]

This is probably a good place to follow the results:

http://www.bbc.com/news/politics/eu_referendum/results

[FSogol]

1. When are results expected? n/t

[Her Sister]

2. Heard (in Rachel Maddow show) about 8pm ET they close the polls and we should get results about

midnight or 2 am ET because it looks close so they need to count all and make sure and since they won't have exit polls.

[Exilednight]

18. BBC is doing exit polling, but they're not allowed to announce their poll

Findings until after all polls are officially closed.

[DemFromPittsburgh]

3. Polling closes at 10:00 PM GMT 6:00 ET.

First results around Midnight GMT. There are no exit polls. Each town announces all results after they are counted. There are about 350 of them Definitive results around breakfast over there.

[DavidDvorkin]

5. BBC News cable channel will start reporting on it at 6 p.m. Eastern time

For all I know, they'll fill the airtime will constant repetition and talking about the vote, the way American news channels do when they don't have anything to report.

[TreasonousBastard]

6. BBC guy on NPR said...

the polls close and all the votes get bundled up and delivered and counted. Then the results are let out.

NO news organizations are allowed to talk AT ALL about the election because even mentioning how long the lines are could affect the results. No exit polls, no predictions, no early results-- nothing at all but beautiful silence.

I really like that idea, and wish we could do he same here

[vdogg]

7. Meh, election night would get kinda boring.

I like watching results roll in.

[auntpurl]

4. Most news outlets here are saying we won't get results til tomorrow morning

So East Coast US would be about 1:00am.

[Yavin4]

8. It's stupid for Britain to pull out of the EU

It will cripple their economy for generations.

[nationalize the fed]

9. Nonsense

Britain did just fine before the US/CIA meddled in European affairs.

Why would any Brit want laws imposed on them by people in Belgium they didn't elect and can't vote out of "office"? The whole EU thing should be crushed like a cockroach.

The European Union always was a CIA project, as Brexiteers discover

The Telegraph 27 4 2016

Brexiteers should have been prepared for the shattering intervention of the US. The European Union always was an American project.

It was Washington that drove European integration in the late 1940s, and funded it covertly under the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations.

While irritated at times, the US has relied on the EU ever since as the anchor to American regional interests alongside NATO...snip

...Nor are many aware of declassified documents from the State Department archives showing that US intelligence funded the European movement secretly for decades, and worked aggressively behind the scenes to push Britain into the project.

As this newspaper first reported when the treasure became available, one memorandum dated July 26, 1950, reveals a campaign to promote a full-fledged European parliament. It is signed by Gen William J Donovan, head of the American wartime Office of Strategic Services, precursor of the Central Inteligence Agency. ...more:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/04/27/the-european-union-always-was-a-cia-project-as-brexiteers-discov/

Euro-federalists financed by US spy chiefs

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Brussels 19 Sep 2000

DECLASSIFIED American government documents show that the US intelligence community ran a campaign in the Fifties and Sixties to build momentum for a united Europe. It funded and directed the European federalist movement...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/1356047/Euro-federalists-financed-by-US-spy-chiefs.html

The US/CIA can't keep from meddling. And the people don't care enough to stop it.

NO THANK EU
Shout OUT!
Vote BREXIT

[auntpurl]

10. The Telegraph, really?

tsk.

[anigbrowl]

13. OMFG what are you even doing on DU?

The Daily Telegraph is a nakedly conservative paper. Yes, I'm sure the US promoted the idea of the EU heavily in Europe, not least through the CIA. As a European myself I heartily agree with the notion that a stable peaceful EU closely allied with the US was much better than a continent wracked by two massive gruesome wars within thirty years. Britain was not doing just fine, it lost a generation of young men in WW1 and was then brought to its knees by WW2. It's only thanks to US intervention that I didn't grow up under Nazi rule rather than in a democratic society.

Why are you peddling this right-wing bullshit on DU?

[OnlyTheGood]

21. The soldiers and citizens of the USSR paid a massive price to ensure

you and your forbears did not have to goose step.

Something on the order of 26 million dead.

[JaneyVee]

14. British cons want to leave EU because of Muslims or something....

[insta8er]

20. Not really, most of it has to do with the contributions that the UK needs to make to the EU. As well

as to follow the rules and regulations set forth in Brussels by the European "government".

[swhisper1]

29. no, they are bleeding money to support other nations in the coalition, and now are told they must

comply further .

[DavidDvorkin]

11. It would diminish from Great Britain to Little England.

[swhisper1]

26. nothing wrong with that, if they regain control of their own country

[DavidDvorkin]

28. That diminished status and power would make control much harder

The smaller and weaker a country is, the more it is subject to control by powerful neighbors.

[swhisper1]

31. its a giant in power, not size, and will remain so .

[swhisper1]

12. britian is the economy, if they pull out, they will be fine but europe will reel

The whole mess is due to the US globalization plans and countries are losing identity. I'm for Brexit

[Drunken Irishman]

23. lol Britain is fucked. They're about to enter a big recession...

Good luck.

[swhisper1]

24. so is EU, no, this is about control of ones borders for the good of the people. No one is going to

stop trade and investments. Britain historically has always managed on her own, she is tired of financially supporting other countries, she wants a divorce, if not the majority, nearly half are saying so.

[Drunken Irishman]

25. It's about a bunch of racist assholes.

I'm guessing part of you also wants to see Trump elected president here.

[swhisper1]

27. thats not funny

[Drunken Irishman]

30. What the Brexit assholes spouted is just a gussied up version of Trump.

Listen to Nigel Farage. He sounds like a smarter Trump.

[mcar]

15. Thanks!

[vdogg]

16. This is very close but London isn't in yet and they're very strongly remain.

So long as the vote remains tied in the rest of the UK, then remain should come out on top.

[Barack_America]

19. If you really believe that, now would be a great time to buy the British pound.

It's in free fall at the moment.

http://www.x-rates.com/graph/?from=GBP&to=USD&amount=1

[vdogg]

22. As I said, it has to stay close in the rest of the country.

If it doesn't, well, even London won't be able to pull it off.

[geek tragedy]

17. Good night for Scottish independence nt

[HerbChestnut]

32. Yep

I think that will be a consequence. At the very least there will be another referendum.

[geek tragedy]

33. Now the choice is between independence and the EU

vs rightwing England

[vdogg]

34. The more I read about this

The pro leave movement had a good case once you strip away all the racist bullshit. The EU parliament does not provide direct representation for the people of Britain. MP's are appointed, and make decisions that affect Britain that the mostly can't be held accountable for. A better route would've been to work within and demand more direct representation. Barring that, I probably would've voted leave too.

[DavidDvorkin]

35. No, those MPs are elected.