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TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
It's happened before.
Should they Stay or Should they Go? looks right now like Go.
This is making a Shake up in the Financial sectors
Should they Stay or Should they Go? looks right now like Go.
as of this posting SKY news is showing 48.3 Stay 51.7 Go. BBC says about the same. Both are calling in favor of BEXIT.EU referendum: BBC forecasts UK vote to leave
- 7 minutes ago
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The UK has voted by 52% to 48% to leave the European Union after 43 years in an historic referendum, a BBC forecast suggests.
London and Scotland voted strongly to stay in the EU but the remain vote has been undermined by poor results in the north of England.
Voters in Wales and the English shires have backed Brexit in large numbers.
The pound fell to its lowest level against the dollar since 1985 as the markets reacted to the results.
Referendum turnout was higher than at last year's general election.
Labour's Shadow chancellor John McDonnell said the Bank of England may have to intervene to shore up the pound, which lost 3% within moments of the first result showing a strong result for Leave in Sunderland and fell as much as 6.5% against the euro.
UKIP leader Nigel Farage - who has campaigned for the past 20 years for Britain to leave the EU - told supporters "this will be a victory for ordinary people, for decent people".
Mr Farage - who predicted a Remain win at the start of the night after polls suggested that would happen - said Thursday, 23 June would "go down in history as our independence day".
He called on Prime Minister David Cameron, who called the referendum but campaigned passionately for a Remain vote, to quit "immediately".
A Labour source said: "If we vote to leave, Cameron should seriously consider his position."
But pro-Leave Conservatives including Boris Johnson and Michael Gove have signed a letter to Mr Cameron urging him to stay on whatever the result.
Labour former Europe Minister Keith Vaz told the BBC the British people had voted with their "emotions" and rejected the advice of experts who had warned about economic impacting of leaving the EU.
He added: "It will be catastrophic for our country, for the rest of Europe and for the rest of the world."
This is making a Shake up in the Financial sectors
A few minutes ago the leave votes passed half of the total vote. Cameron has been hoisted by his own petard. [ A petard was a pot you pressed against a port of a town or fortress with a long beam and filled with gun powder to blow open same. If it exploded in your hands you were truly hoisted ].
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
What a turn. One moment they said the anti-Brexit side was winning and the Western media was celebrating and I fell asleep for 45 minutes waking up to markets were tumbling over Brexit victory. Obviously the Western media was all day trying to manipulate the vote.
Equation
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TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
Or early reports were premature check the numbers Mace this was a Sqeeker.
final results 51.9% BEXIT 48.1 EU. close vote but the UK is out of the EU. this has hit all the open markets as a shocker all the Asian markets are down the Nikkei, the Hong Kong, the Shanghai and more.
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
I was in and out watching the news all day on this. Last week they said Brexit was winning in polls. Then to the run up to today's vote and during the day they were saying the polls were against Brexit. I don't know what the rules are in Great Britain but they stopped reporting exit polls before polls close in the US because they knew that could manipulate the vote and discourage people from voting. In Great Britain I'm sure they have access to other Western news services. All day they said anti-Brexit was going to win and even markets open at the time were rallying on that news. All of the sudden Brexit wins? Sounds like someone was trying to be manipulative.
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
exit polling is not scientific or accurate and past reports were based on Phone polling which is also hardly set in stone mace, It's asking people at random and hoping to get the best polling numbers. and in this case It was also likely off as Check the numbers 1.9% was the key victory. That 1.9% means this could have just as easily been a Stay. This was a very close win for BEXIT to use a overused analogy this was winning by a nose a photo finish.
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
David Cameron Resigns As U.K. Prime Minister After Brexit Vote
The resignation casts Britain into further uncertainty following its referendum to leave the European Union.
06/24/2016 03:23 am ET | Updated 1 minute ago
- Reporter, The Huffington Post
STEFAN WERMUTH / REUTERS
British Prime Minister David Cameron had pledged before the EU referendum to stay in office whatever the results.
British Prime Minister David Cameron announced he would resign his post on Friday morning, after his country , adding political leadership to the United Kingdom’s growing list of uncertainties. Cameronpromised to stay in office until October and help “steady the ship” before a new leader is chosen.
“On questions about the arrangements for how we are governed, there are times when we should ask the people themselves,” the Conservative Party leader said outside his prime ministerial home, 10 Downing Street. “The British people have asked to leave ... their will must be respected.”
Cameron, in power since 2010, had called the so-called Brexit referendum after promising conservative factions of his party in 2013 that he would hold such a vote if he won re-election last year. Thursday’s referendum badly weakened Cameron and means Britain will be the first country to withdraw from the 28-member EU.
“Now the decision has been made to leave, we need to find the best way,” an emotional Cameron said. “I will do everything I can to help. I love this country and I feel honored to have served it. I will do anything I can in future to help this great country succeed.”
Cameron had spent months in the union, and warned a decision to leave would drastically harm the economy. Voters ultimately spurned his appeals, with about 52 percent favoring Brexit.
“I held nothing back, I was absolutely clear in my belief,” he said. “The British people have made a very clear decision to take a different path.”
Cameron’s dire economic warnings appear to have been founded. After the BBC called the referendum, the British pound plummeted to , pushing down global stock prices and .
The prime minister said he would meet with the European Council next week to explain the decision and begin the process toward the ultimate exit of the U.K. However, Cameron said such talks would be best undertaken by a new leader.
“I do not think it would be right for me to be the captain that steers our country to its next destination,” he said.
Cameron . He had considered stepping down if 2014’s Scottish independence referendum would have been successful, but the region ultimately decided to remain in the U.K.
Cameron had previously led the Conservative Party to a hearty electoral victory during last year’s election, unseating political opponents in what The Guardian called probably “ in a general election since 1945.”