Re: The EU - Leave or Remain?
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 6:15 pm
I'm a bit late to this party....
I was working on Thursday, one of those people who handed out the voting slips, and chatting to the electorate. I've done that station for the last 6 or 7 years. It's one of the generally apathetic areas of Colchester, yet our turnout was double the last general election. We were getting middle-aged voters, coming in with their children who were of voting age, who had never voted before and didn't know what to do! As to the proportion who believed that their mark in pencil would be rubbed out and changed....
As to the result, I was surprised. But we haven't left yet and I personnally doubt that we will. There is already a suggestion that because less than 60/65/70/75% of the electorate voted to leave, it isn't enough
A large proportion of those who voted to leave did so because of David Cameron. For them it was a vote of no confidence in our Prime Minister.
Expect another referendum.
I was working on Thursday, one of those people who handed out the voting slips, and chatting to the electorate. I've done that station for the last 6 or 7 years. It's one of the generally apathetic areas of Colchester, yet our turnout was double the last general election. We were getting middle-aged voters, coming in with their children who were of voting age, who had never voted before and didn't know what to do! As to the proportion who believed that their mark in pencil would be rubbed out and changed....
As to the result, I was surprised. But we haven't left yet and I personnally doubt that we will. There is already a suggestion that because less than 60/65/70/75% of the electorate voted to leave, it isn't enough
A large proportion of those who voted to leave did so because of David Cameron. For them it was a vote of no confidence in our Prime Minister.
Expect another referendum.