2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBrexit results
This is probably a good place to follow the results:
http://www.bbc.com/news/politics/eu_referendum/results
FSogol
(45,360 posts)Her Sister
(6,444 posts)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
(9,359 posts)Findings until after all polls are officially closed.
DemFromPittsburgh
(102 posts)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
(19,406 posts)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
(43,049 posts)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
(1,384 posts)I like watching results roll in.
auntpurl
(4,311 posts)So East Coast US would be about 1:00am.
Yavin4
(35,357 posts)It will cripple their economy for generations.
nationalize the fed
(2,169 posts)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
(4,311 posts)tsk.
anigbrowl
(13,889 posts)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 posts)you and your forbears did not have to goose step.
Something on the order of 26 million dead.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)insta8er
(960 posts)as to follow the rules and regulations set forth in Brussels by the European "government".
swhisper1
(851 posts)comply further .
DavidDvorkin
(19,406 posts)swhisper1
(851 posts)DavidDvorkin
(19,406 posts)The smaller and weaker a country is, the more it is subject to control by powerful neighbors.
swhisper1
(851 posts)swhisper1
(851 posts)The whole mess is due to the US globalization plans and countries are losing identity. I'm for Brexit
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Good luck.
swhisper1
(851 posts)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
(34,857 posts)I'm guessing part of you also wants to see Trump elected president here.
swhisper1
(851 posts)Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Listen to Nigel Farage. He sounds like a smarter Trump.
mcar
(42,210 posts)vdogg
(1,384 posts)So long as the vote remains tied in the rest of the UK, then remain should come out on top.
Barack_America
(28,876 posts)It's in free fall at the moment.
http://www.x-rates.com/graph/?from=GBP&to=USD&amount=1
vdogg
(1,384 posts)If it doesn't, well, even London won't be able to pull it off.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)HerbChestnut
(3,649 posts)I think that will be a consequence. At the very least there will be another referendum.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)vs rightwing England
vdogg
(1,384 posts)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.