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Post by JoeP on Jun 23, 2016 12:41:18 GMT
Party!
Pork pies, fish and chips, chicken tikka masala and beer on the one side, delicious cheeses, pizzas, pasta, sausages, tapas, mezze, smörgåsbord and of course more beer on the other side.
This thread is for general worrying, monitoring the vote counting when it begins later, and eventually celebrating / fretting about the clear success of the right/wrong side and/or the continued uncertainty and upheaval that a very close result might entail. And celebrating / ranting about the resulting fortunes of our reviled / esteemed political leaders.
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Post by tangent on Jun 23, 2016 12:54:57 GMT
Great idea I'll just help myself to some French cheese, Italian pizza and German lager English bitter. I voted (REMAIN) at about 11am when the polling station was fairly quiet.
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Post by spaceflower on Jun 23, 2016 14:43:22 GMT
A party? I was thinking more of a wake. The death of the "peace project" of EU.
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Post by ProdigalAlan on Jun 23, 2016 15:52:38 GMT
I've lived in this house for over 16 years. The polling station is just around the corner. I always vote. Usually when I vote I'm the only one there. Today it was packed with people. That was at 9.00 this morning and one of the voting staff told me it was the highest turnout she'd ever experienced at that station. To hell with the food. I'll have a Ducati Motorcycle, a Mercedes Benz and a Greek island ( and a bag of chips )
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Post by JoeP on Jun 23, 2016 16:27:17 GMT
It's not dead yet spaceflower!
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Post by Moose on Jun 23, 2016 17:33:56 GMT
Yeah our local one was more busy than I've ever seen it before. We didn't have to queue but there were people constantly in and out ... usually it's just me . I'll have a greek salad, heavy on the feta, hold the olives thanks.
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Post by Moose on Jun 23, 2016 17:36:24 GMT
It's Col's birthday btw so we can celebrate that too
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Post by Moose on Jun 23, 2016 18:12:48 GMT
*pours self another continental beer and signals for a bowl of peppers in olive oil*
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Post by tangent on Jun 23, 2016 19:08:51 GMT
Happy Birthday, Colin.
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Post by ProdigalAlan on Jun 23, 2016 19:11:20 GMT
Yeah happy birthday Col
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Post by JoeP on Jun 23, 2016 19:37:31 GMT
It's Col's birthday btw so we can celebrate that too Oi! Get yerself another thread for that!
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Post by JoeP on Jun 23, 2016 19:42:01 GMT
there were people constantly in and out The whole point is they have to choose one or the other!
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Post by spaceflower on Jun 23, 2016 22:00:26 GMT
Since the real midsummer night was 20-21 June and the official one is tomorrow night I feel that I should eat midsummerfood (pickled herring, sour cream, new potatoes and strawberry). Traditional drink is vodka, but I think beer of British ale type would be more suitable. Skål! Here's to a better EU!
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Post by spaceflower on Jun 23, 2016 23:15:11 GMT
Adolf (and Alice) had name-day yesterday. Seems apt to me since one argument was "Hitler failed to take over Europe but now Germany does it via EU".
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Post by Moose on Jun 23, 2016 23:37:38 GMT
It seems to be on a knife edge so far. I really want us to remain.
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Post by JoeP on Jun 24, 2016 7:21:44 GMT
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Post by JoeP on Jun 24, 2016 7:31:01 GMT
Any good things to come out of this? Presumably Cameron will have to step down.
MAYBE governments around Europe will take steps to be more inclusive to and representative of their own citizens to avoid this kind of thing happening there.
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Post by juju on Jun 24, 2016 9:05:03 GMT
I can't believe the stupidity of people in this country. I'm gutted.
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Post by JoeP on Jun 24, 2016 9:32:45 GMT
I rationalise the stupidity by telling myself that it's a vote against the stupid governments we've had, and the apparent out-of-touch-ness of the EU bodies. A vote against "democratic deficit", which is a real problem (even though leaving the EU is not going to help - it may even make government accountability worse).
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Post by spaceflower on Jun 24, 2016 9:35:26 GMT
It's not dead yet spaceflower! Now it is. The xenophobics won. Most of London and Scotland voted Remain but the rest of the country voted Leave. Wales receives a lot of benefits from EU but voted Leave anyway.
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Post by spaceflower on Jun 24, 2016 9:38:29 GMT
Cameron resigns. He must rue the day he decided upon a referendum. Who will be the new prime minister, Boris Johnson? Nigel Farage?
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Post by JoeP on Jun 24, 2016 9:46:30 GMT
Farage is part of a different party, UKIP. Despite his insufferable smugness he isn't even in Parliament - they have only one MP.
Boris Johnson is a very likely candidate. But there are others, all nasty but perhaps less stupid. Teresa May has been mentioned.
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Post by tangent on Jun 24, 2016 9:58:04 GMT
I'm gutted, just as I was last year when that Conservatives won the election last year. My town, Stockport, voted to Remain, by 4.6% but we are surrounded by xenophobes.
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Post by jayme on Jun 24, 2016 11:56:39 GMT
Erm...congratulations? *orders a full English for brexit*
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Post by raspberrybullets on Jun 24, 2016 13:07:04 GMT
Party over?
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Post by tangent on Jun 24, 2016 13:28:42 GMT
I'm not in the mood to party.
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Post by JoeP on Jun 24, 2016 14:38:18 GMT
This is the wake that spaceflower was afraid of.
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Post by spaceflower on Jun 24, 2016 15:36:20 GMT
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Post by Moose on Jun 24, 2016 15:54:35 GMT
Farage has already reneged on his promise that his party would spend the money saved on the NHS. He said it was a 'mistake.'
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Post by ceptimus on Jun 24, 2016 18:17:54 GMT
To be fair to Farage the '£350 million per week' wasn't part of his campaign. That was one of the claims made by the official (Tory) Vote Leave campaign - and they ostracised Farage who then ran his own separate campaign group.
Farage has tended to use the (more correct) 'ten billion per year' net figure. In the interview where he said 'that was a mistake' he was being asked about the claims made by the other leave group.
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