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The EU Referendum

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How are you voting?

  • Leave

    Votes: 58 56.3%

  • Remain

    Votes: 45 43.7%
  • Total voters
    103
  • Poll closed .
Nigel Farage has said on live TV that the Leave campaign 'made a mistake' saying the £350m saved from spending to the EU will go to the NHS, despite that being the big tagline on a lot of their posters. He's said he can't guarantee that will happen. Convenient how he's waited until after the result to admit to that.
 
Another Surrey Shrimper said:
What so you base that on? In terms of the EU he adjusted his stance to fit in with the party.
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Has he? Could've fooled me.

Corbyn has never been a convincing supporter of the Remain campaign, and even now the party is briefing its MPs to tell media that, as a "sceptical Remainer", Corbyn is the party leader with the most in common with the electorate. That's a nonsense. Corbyn doesn't have a significant amount in common with most of his party, or he wouldn't have failed so spectacularly to unite its membership.
 
EastStandBlue said:
Has he? Could've fooled me.

Corbyn has never been a convincing supporter of the Remain campaign, and even now the party is briefing its MPs to tell media that, as a "sceptical Remainer", Corbyn is the party leader with the most in common with the electorate. That's a nonsense. Corbyn doesn't have a significant amount in common with most of his party, or he wouldn't have failed so spectacularly to unite its membership.
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I don't see how the EU result would have a direct result for him personally. He has famously been Eurosceptic but backed Remain as party policy and made statements and sent out literature and gave interviews asking people to vote Remain.

You could argue against him being party leader from various angles but I don't see that the EU result is one of them - he followed the party line.
 
callan said:
I sat up all night watching it and Corbyn wis pretty much condemned across party lines for not doing enough.
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Rock and a hard place really though. He campaigned to stay in but he didn't share a platform with the likes of Cameron to do so.
This is Cameron's baby, he fought an election on something he didn't even want and now he is paying the price.
 
Castle Point voted 72.7% to LEAVE, with a 75.3% turn out. Fully expect our MP, Rebecca Harris, to get a decent Parliamentary role out of this when the inevitable re-shuffle comes.
 
callan said:
With you now.

Wont happen but the bloke as a UKIP supporter (at the last election), that I really think should resign is Farage, and make sure he stays resigned!
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For UKIP it is job done really - they are represented by one MP and a bunch of MEPs that no longer mean anything. Farage can do some 'people's champion' speeches for a few days and then his whole being is redundant.
 
I wasn't expecting the final outcome, but a 72% turnout proves that the majority of voters felt that Leave was the way forward. The stuff that will now follow is a bit more scary. I imagine that the Tory Party will now consider the leadership of the Party, and what that means. The Scots will push for another Referendum and maybe the Welsh as well. There is now also a swell of opinion for a unified Ireland. The fall-out from this result is unreadable at the moment but it could conceivably see the eventual break-up of the UK. The bit that really worries me is that Boris and Gove could play a major part in running the Country.
 
Another Surrey Shrimper said:
For UKIP it is job done really - they are represented by one MP and a bunch of MEPs that no longer mean anything. Farage can do some 'people's champion' speeches for a few days any then his whole being is redundant.
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It will be interesting to see what happens, much was made of a Labour disconnect with it's core historic vote and despite it's lack of MP's it did force a referendum promised by other parties that they never delivered on.
 
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