# UK EU In/Out referendum-:Polling day thread. **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [June 23, 2016, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-eu-in-out-referendum-polling-day-thread/758125 "2016-06-23T08:12:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-eu-in-out-referendum-polling-day-thread/758125/101 "2016-06-24T02:45:55Z")
Yep, could be an election, the phrase ‘zombie Parliament’ will start to crop up. Cameron is adrift. The Labour opposition failed. Scotland could have another referendum on leaving the UK. The while stack of cards got thrown up in the air. ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-eu-in-out-referendum-polling-day-thread/758125/102 "2016-06-24T02:51:56Z")
Last question and then I will just talk about the election: I just remembered that (I thought) the UK went to “fixed term” five year Parliaments. How could there be a new election? ---
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-eu-in-out-referendum-polling-day-thread/758125/103 "2016-06-24T02:53:53Z")
Manchester declared. It’s almost over. There’s really no way back. ---
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-eu-in-out-referendum-polling-day-thread/758125/104 "2016-06-24T02:54:56Z")
> [@UltraVires](#): > > Last question and then I will just talk about the election: I just remembered that (I thought) the UK went to “fixed term” five year Parliaments. How could there be a new election? You pass another law or repeal that one - every Parliament is sovereign. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-eu-in-out-referendum-polling-day-thread/758125/105 "2016-06-24T02:57:13Z")
> [@Fuzzy\_wuzzy](#): > > This is the big elephant in the room, and the answer is not entirely clear. The feeling is that the PM having lost will resign as PM sooner or later. Probably sooner. The Govt can then choose whichever MP it wishes as Prime Minister. He or she will likely call another election before too long. It’s rather problematic for a PM to be PM without having gone through a General Election. Nothing in the constitution says he/she must call an election, but the country usually grumbles if he or she does not. Fixed Term Parliament Act rather changes that. ---
**Author:** ![mr\_wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@mr\_wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr_wolf)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-eu-in-out-referendum-polling-day-thread/758125/106 "2016-06-24T02:57:26Z")
Pound 10% lower and counting… ---
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-eu-in-out-referendum-polling-day-thread/758125/107 "2016-06-24T03:01:16Z")
stock market down to 2009. Did I say fuck Berlin yet … ---
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-eu-in-out-referendum-polling-day-thread/758125/108 "2016-06-24T03:07:24Z")
> [@mr\_wolf](#): > > Pound 10% lower and counting… Fantastic for exports. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-eu-in-out-referendum-polling-day-thread/758125/109 "2016-06-24T03:11:30Z")
Maybe Grexit, too, soon? ---
**Author:** ![mr\_wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@mr\_wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr_wolf)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-eu-in-out-referendum-polling-day-thread/758125/110 "2016-06-24T03:13:28Z")
> [@up\_the\_junction](#): > > Fantastic for exports. I’ll say. Just made a few foreign quid, courtesy of Mr. Farage. Asian markets at fever pitch. ---
**Author:** ![Fuzzy\_wuzzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a8b319/32.png) [@Fuzzy\_wuzzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuzzy_wuzzy)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-eu-in-out-referendum-polling-day-thread/758125/111 "2016-06-24T03:13:52Z")
> [@up\_the\_junction](#): > > You pass another law or repeal that one - every Parliament is sovereign. Or have a referendum on the issue. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-eu-in-out-referendum-polling-day-thread/758125/112 "2016-06-24T03:15:13Z")
It’s looking like a very bad Friday on Wall Street as well. While markets tend to overreact in the near term, it will be a sleepless weekend for many. I should have been paying more attention to this, but are the British people generally aware how bad this will be for them, at least in the near term? ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-eu-in-out-referendum-polling-day-thread/758125/113 "2016-06-24T03:15:27Z")
I am just a Yank of the Brexit age, but just how senile must be to see this as a good idea? I will never understand old people. ---
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-eu-in-out-referendum-polling-day-thread/758125/114 "2016-06-24T03:19:32Z")
Jesus, Birminghan voted Leave. No big cities left, inner London almost done. That’s it. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-eu-in-out-referendum-polling-day-thread/758125/115 "2016-06-24T03:19:47Z")
Also, is there a simple explanation why Scotland and Northern Ireland favor staying, while England and Wales favor leaving? ---
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-eu-in-out-referendum-polling-day-thread/758125/116 "2016-06-24T03:20:59Z")
> [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](#): > > I should have been paying more attention to this, but are the British people generally aware how bad this will be for them, at least in the near term? Yes. Fuck Berlin. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-eu-in-out-referendum-polling-day-thread/758125/117 "2016-06-24T03:23:36Z")
Adjoining ridings of Boston, South Holland and Fenland voted Leave by over 70%. What’s the beef in that region compared to the England average? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-eu-in-out-referendum-polling-day-thread/758125/118 "2016-06-24T03:23:49Z")
> [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](#): > > Also, is there a simple explanation why Scotland and Northern Ireland favor staying, while England and Wales favor leaving? I am astounded at the Welsh vote, so: no. ---
**Author:** ![mr\_wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@mr\_wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr_wolf)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-eu-in-out-referendum-polling-day-thread/758125/119 "2016-06-24T03:28:37Z")
> [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](#): > > It’s looking like a very bad Friday on Wall Street as well. While markets tend to overreact in the near term, it will be a sleepless weekend for many. > > I should have been paying more attention to this, but are the British people generally aware how bad this will be for them, at least in the near term? Dow Jones futures are down 4%. As for your question, there isn’t such a thing as ‘British people’ in this issue. It has been good for some, bad to others. After this, it will be bad for some and I guess the others hope to stop the downward trend. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-eu-in-out-referendum-polling-day-thread/758125/120 "2016-06-24T03:35:50Z")
> [@Dr.Drake](#): > > I am astounded at the Welsh vote, so: no. As far as I know Wales has never wanted to separate from the UK. Both Scotland and Northern Ireland have. Scotland and Northern Ireland feel that they’re stronger tied to the EU than they are to the UK, from which many want to separate. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-eu-in-out-referendum-polling-day-thread/758125.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-eu-in-out-referendum-polling-day-thread/758125.md?page=7)