Should the UK remain a member of the EU

[Megadrive Man]

Somebody call the Knights of the vale!

[clangers]

Indeed but its two results from the North east. I'll wait and see whether other regions go the same way before topping myself.

It's the margins of the respective votes though that's a concern if you want to remain and the higher turnout in these areas.

[moof]

Fuuuuuuuck. This could get very interesting. By interesting I mean quite fucking scary.

[Sputnik1]

Sell sell !!!!!

[Boss]

The currency will pick itself up after the referendum anyway, it's all speculation at the moment. 

[Section_31]

Step forward all those who would serve!

 

 

[Cardie]

And i'll win £300, come on Leave!

Spend it quick, by the time Leave has fucked this country up it'll barely buy you a mars bar.

[Sputnik1]

I would just like to pledge allegiance to our new leave overlords. 

[Section_31]

Sterling is in freefall. $1.50 to $1.44 in minutes.

 

Shows how fucking stupid our whole system is. 

 

'The markets were fairly certain of a remain vote, why were you so sure?'

 

'Dunno'. 

 

Yes, let's give these people the tiller. 

[jimmycase]

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120202151713.htm

https://www.insidescience.org/content/even-careful-hand-counts-can-produce-election-errors/563

 

No, I asked you to provide evidence to support your claim that sunderland's ability to declare first was not accurate ie anywhere near your stated 2% margin not, produce guff claiming 2% of hand counting errors.

 

I'll ask you again. Where's your evidence that Sunderland's results were inaccurate from the first vote to any first and subsequent recounts? by a margin of 2%?

 

All you have to do is produce figures for the first count then the variance between that and the subsequent re counts?

[magicrat]

It's the margins of the respective votes though that's a concern if you want to remain and the higher turnout in these areas.

Yes but I dont expect the patterns to be uniform across the country, Lets see a few results form other areas not just the NE

[jimmycase]

Leave at 2/1 tempted to crack a can open and pull an all nighter this could be fucking epic!

 

Id love to agree but its very early days. London and the SE results will be very different I think.

[Mendoza]

[Mathewbet1]

This is going to be decided by a cunt hair (said in Pauli's voice from the sopranos )

[Cardie]

Presumably if Leave win, and following the inevitable crash/job losses, those who voted leave will be the first to fall on their swords?

[jimmycase]

The currency will pick itself up after the referendum anyway, it's all speculation at the moment. 

 

Spot on. Currency speculation, who'd have thought it, eh?

[clangers]

I've got £1.50 invested in online betting on the movement of sterling. It's going to be a heady night.

[Jairzinho]

Kuessenberg, Dimbleby, and Vine in the same room?

 

Be right back.

[Section_31]

Nina Hossain looks sensational. Obvious ploy to make us all approve of immigration. 

[clangers]

Presumably if Leave win, and following the inevitable crash/job losses, those who voted leave will be the first to fall on their swords?

 

Particularly with a much more right wing administration in power that shifts us to a low tax, low service economy.

[jimmycase]

Presumably if Leave win, and following the inevitable crash/job losses, those who voted leave will be the first to fall on their swords?

 

A German industry boss has said it would be "very, very foolish" if the EU imposes trade barriers on the UK in the event it votes to leave the EU.

Markus Kerber, the head of the influential BDI which represents German industry, said his organisation would make the case against such measures.

He said any introduction of tariffs would be "regression to times we thought we'd left behind in the 1970s".

The UK's referendum on whether to leave the EU will be held on Thursday.

"Imposing trade barriers, imposing protectionist measures between our two countries - or between the two political centres, the European Union on the one hand and the UK on the other - would be a very, very foolish thing in the 21st Century," Mr Kerber told the BBC's World Service.

"The BDI would urge politicians on both sides to come up with a trade regime that enables us to uphold and maintain the levels of trade we have, although it will become more difficult."

Mr Kerber added that any introduction of tariffs would lead to job losses in Germany and the UK.

He said a vote to leave the EU would lead to a "serious disruption" to the German-UK economic relationship, describing it "as if a relative had left the family".

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The German government has taken a tougher line on a future trade arrangement, should the UK vote to leave. Germany's finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has said a leave vote would mean Britain leaving the European single market - "out is out".

Leave campaigners say the UK does not need to be part of the single market.

Should the UK request a trade deal, a senior MP in Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union, Juergen Hardt, says the EU would not be able to negotiate a trade pact with the UK quickly.

"I'm sure we'll find ways again to link Britain to Europe, but it will be tougher for Britain," he said.

He said the EU was busy trying to do a deal with the US. On a UK deal - should one be requested - he said "there will be negotiations but (it is) not a priority".

Germany - an architect of the European Union - is gripped by the possibility of a British exit from the EU, with wall-to-wall TV coverage of the referendum campaign.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36596060

 

The country will prosper.

[Kevin D]

Shite start, so far.

[Section_31]

Presumably if Leave win, and following the inevitable crash/job losses, those who voted leave will be the first to fall on their swords?

 

If that happens then it will be a punishment rather than a natural result of leaving, therefore it'll probably show that the leave folks were morally right. 

[Baltar]

Nice bit of totty on the ITV coverage. Nina Hossein still scrubs up well.

[Sputnik1]

filling sandbags here, those zombies will be here by morning.