General / Off-Topic Predict the result of the referendum. Let's see how smart we are!
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Regarding the Market/currency disruption - it'll eventually settle down.
Regarding this forum poll - called it
As a Scot who voted Leave, I feel vindicated.
Now I'm going to get a couple of hours sleep.
Regards, CMDRs o7
Regarding this forum poll - called it
As a Scot who voted Leave, I feel vindicated.
Now I'm going to get a couple of hours sleep.
Regards, CMDRs o7
Morning Andy.
So much for the bookies eh? To be honest though I was of the opinion they probably had it right as they often seem to be.
Yaffle, if it wasn't for your sig then I would have guessed you're in some sort of finance from your posts.
Joe Public doesn't give a damn about their pension being wiped out NOW. They only cared about punching those smug self-serving politicians in the face. HARD!
The ordinary population of the UK have shown courage in defying the political class that took a Remain vote for granted. "It will turn out Remain because people will think better the devil you know than the devil you don't". Well guess again buddy!
It also means that politicians can't take anything for granted or a "safe seat"any more. UK has put Westminster on notice that they'd better buck up and start listening to the electorate.
For avoidance of doubt, I voted Leave.
Joe Public doesn't give a damn about their pension being wiped out NOW. They only cared about punching those smug self-serving politicians in the face. HARD!
The ordinary population of the UK have shown courage in defying the political class that took a Remain vote for granted. "It will turn out Remain because people will think better the devil you know than the devil you don't". Well guess again buddy!
It also means that politicians can't take anything for granted or a "safe seat"any more. UK has put Westminster on notice that they'd better buck up and start listening to the electorate.
For avoidance of doubt, I voted Leave.
Yaffle
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I utterly respect the democracy at work, and the decision is the decision. Sadly people don't understand what they just did - aligning themselves with the French National Front is not somewhere I am comfortable. Punching Cameron in the face at the expense of your own pension, and your children's future seems a bit short myopic to me.
Ahh well, at least there's an extra £350M per week for the NHS. Isn't there?
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Robert Maynard
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I thought that Farage's "correction" of that notion was tipped to be one of the fastest retractions ever?
Tax cuts you mean.
The NHS' biggest overhead by a huge margin, is bureaucracy. Partly for Whitehall and partly to cover it's back to prevent itself being sued.
I feel so ashamed to be English, so how long do i get to move to Europe before they stop me?
I think we're in for a very turbulent ~3 years, and I wonder if Scots manage to vote to leave the UK before the UK - EU split is even done and dusted.
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Hopefully at least the 2 years.
Yes, the road ahead will be very bumpy, however I do hope Ireland and Scotland will get their go at independence too.
However i believe we haven't seen the last of this. A new referendum could come into place due to unknown reasons. This is a wake up call for the EU, they need to serious take a good and hard look at themselves and ask the question.
"what on earth went wrong here?" next step would be to correct it, maybe and just maybe they can turn it around again.
2 Years might be long enough for me to learn a new language.
" oi ships cat we are moving so we can watch the dismantling and accelerated decline of Brittan from a slightly safer place"
Just looked at the results for my area Thurrock 72%, what ever happens im leaving this bit of the country.
I cant see the Scots being held up they will be out as fast as they can so they can renegotiate back into Europe.
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That's the head talking, maybe we voted with our hearts this time.
The world has become "TOO" much economics and possiblitly and not enough "JUST DO" and "LETS TAKE THE RISK"
Today that changed!
I am Leave BTW
Yaffle
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I assume you will take full responsibility if the 'head' turned out to be correct? Will everyone who voted 'OUT' be willing to pay higher taxes than those who voted 'IN' if they turn out to be wrong for example? (I'm happy to give you my tax break if you are right).
How's your pension this morning? How about the gilt yields? Inflation an issue? A recession? Let's take the risk, but be prepared for the consequences. This is high-risk, low-gain. Not a great thing to make a bet on, in my opinion.
But still, we're here. What next? What is your plan?
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I've just found this! :O
Sorry for the extreme delay but I was a bit, um, preoccupied coming to terms with the result on Friday morning. After that, the cheese slipped off my cracker a bit and I spent most of Friday in a state of shock.
So, ahem, yes the bookies got it wrong. If I'd bet £100 on 'Leave' on Thursday evening I'd be close a grand up right now. Fortunately I understand the Maths well enough not to touch it with a bargepole.
On the upside, it seems that everybody else in the country did as well - including the Leave campaign who, 4 days on, appear still to be struggling to get a grip on the situation whilst at the same time distancing themselves from the fibs that were told.
From other posts around the forum it would appear that others were prepared to bet the country's future on our behalf - nice of them to ask, I thought... [wacko]
ETA: I see that nice Mr. Farage has been standing up to the faceless Eurobureaucrats again this morning. I thought the swipe at the culture of getting paid for doing all was particularly well directed...
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I assume you will take full responsibility if the 'head' turned out to be correct? Will everyone who voted 'OUT' be willing to pay higher taxes than those who voted 'IN' if they turn out to be wrong for example? (I'm happy to give you my tax break if you are right).
How's your pension this morning? How about the gilt yields? Inflation an issue? A recession? Let's take the risk, but be prepared for the consequences. This is high-risk, low-gain. Not a great thing to make a bet on, in my opinion.
But still, we're here. What next? What is your plan?
Right or Wrong depends on your perspective.
Plan ? - I don't have one. I don't need to have one. I was asked to give my opinion, I gave it.
How's your pension this morning? How about the gilt yields? Inflation an issue? A recession? Let's take the risk, but be prepared for the consequences. This is high-risk, low-gain. Not a great thing to make a bet on, in my opinion.
But still, we're here. What next? What is your plan?
Right or Wrong depends on your perspective.
Plan ? - I don't have one. I don't need to have one. I was asked to give my opinion, I gave it.
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