The UK Politics and EU Referendum thread - merged

[arbboy]

If Betfair is right I must be jolly for arbboy's pony!

You will probably do the right thing and back a 200/1 poke in the final at bet365 prices which is 50/1 on bf and it will win!  Hoping a casual wins and backs a 4/7 shot with it!  I quite fancy my guess tbh!  I think i am the current jolly to win my own bet back.

[TightEnd]

275% spike on Google.com/trends for the question "what happens if we leave the EU?" in the last two hours. But late to be asking that?!

[TightEnd]

Amazing how many people don't vote in something like this.  Low 70%'s is pretty low right for something this important? 

it's huge. Only Blair/1997 election has had over 70 since 1979.

[teddybloat]

Amazing how many people don't vote in something like this.  Low 70%'s is pretty low right for something this important? 

I imagine its such a complex issue that there were a lot of undecided people.

So much to balance: political ideology, immigration, economic effects etc. Each sub-issue will have its own remain / brexit leaning, and I imagine a lot of people struggled  to resolve those conflicts to a point were they were strongly or confidently in favour of one side of the argument.

[arbboy]

Amazing how many people don't vote in something like this.  Low 70%'s is pretty low right for something this important? 

it's huge. Only Blair/1997 election has had over 70 since 1979.

Every vote counts in this though.  Voting in the vast majority of areas in a GE is pointless.  I never vote in a GE where i live because it makes no difference in the slightest with a 20k majority.  I was expecting this to be way into the high 70%'s turnover wise.

[The Camel]

Amazing how many people don't vote in something like this.  Low 70%'s is pretty low right for something this important? 

I imagine its such a complex issue that there were a lot of undecided people.

So much to balance: political ideology, immigration, economic effects etc. Each sub-issue will have its own remain / brexit leaning, and I imagine a lot of people struggled  to resolve those conflicts to a point were they were strongly or confidently in favour of one side of the argument.

My mother postal voted a couple of weeks ago.

Has changed her mind about 6 times as to whether she voted the right way or not!

[cambridgealex]

Amazing how many people don't vote in something like this.  Low 70%'s is pretty low right for something this important?  

it's huge. Only Blair/1997 election has had over 70 since 1979.

Every vote counts in this though.  Voting in the vast majority of areas in a GE is pointless.  I never vote in a GE where i live because it makes no difference in the slightest with a 20k majority.  I was expecting this to be way into the high 70%'s turnover wise.

But one vote is never going to be the difference is it so why bother?

Or just team up with a person of the opposite stance and agree to both not vote

[Ledders]

Add a game of prisoner's dilemma to make it easier

[4KSuited]

Turnout is 67% as I type this.

I nearly didn't vote, since I became so conflicted on the issues, and annoyed by the poverty of the case made by either side. In the end I got to the polling station in the belief my vote wouldn't count anyway but determined to exercise my democratic right.

Radio 5 Live reporter mentioned that he met a lot of ppl who decided against voting as they felt unqualified to make the right decision - or that they were simply too confused to know which box to mark with an X. I suspect that there's a great deal of truth about this - with an added measure of weather.

[arbboy]

What price a draw?  10000/1?

[TightEnd]

2 of the three staunchest remain areas at the bottom of turnout. This has to be tighter than leave 2/1 on netfair

[Ledders]

got to add 2 more zeros to that surely? 33million votes in play.

[The Camel]

What price a draw?  10000/1?

Add a nought, probably two noughts.

[TightEnd]

Labour says the snp hasn't done enough

[arbboy]

What price a draw?  10000/1?

Add a nought, probably two noughts.

It is only 50/50 to be impossible to be a draw if the total turnout is an odd number!!!  That was my point!