EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

66% leave in Broxbourne. Fuck.

I'm more surprised that 34% of Broxbourne voted to remain.

Yeah but they also voted BNP into their council :|

Yay home counties. Been next to zero signs or posters up in North Herts., but then they did vote for that wanker Peter Lilley *, so I'm pretty resigned.

* Seriously, he's a prick

Basildon - scary.

Fuck fuck fuck

I'm incredulous as to how the leave campaign may win

I think we're fucked.

Didn't see much either way when visiting my parents back in East Herts, but drove up from there to Bicester the other week and saw lots of massive leave posters everywhere on the way.

Can we leave the UK?

Me too, but millions of people in London, Birmingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh will add massive numbers compared to a few hundred thousand in Broxbourne and Kettering.

This is terrifying to watch.

I think it's going to be more of a city/town split than north/south.

A lot of disenfranchised voters voting out.

basildon is full of racist thick as pigshit cunts. it's why I moved to london.

Good choice!

I've been to Basildon more than once. Would need a very good reason to go there again.

How do Sunderland and Newcastle fit into that though?

Glib comments aside, this is revealing a very real issue as to how a significant chunk of the country is feeling and IMO that is something that collectively needs to be addressed. I'm pretty sure that this govt will do fa to sort this.

Getting quite nervous watching the results dribble in. Who the fuck would vote "leave" as an anti-establishment statement? Gove-Boris-Farage is hardly a cadre of Marxist freedom fighters you dicks.

I was thinking more in terms of affluent cities. Newcastle/Sunderland are still suffering to an extent with the erosion of industry up there.

It's been obvious since even before Brown's 'bigoted old woman' comments that Labour is failing to address some very real concerns in a lot of working class voters - and not just white working class voters - about immigration.

I worked for a bit in a factory in the North West where jobs literally were being lost to the EU, with the manual work going to Poland instead, and most of the surrounding businesses where I had friends working were mainly staffed by East Europeans.

The trouble is, the more there's a cabal of Southern, Oxbridge PPE, professional politicians, the less these views are heard, and the less relevant the positive arguments sound.

That's why Umunna, Kendall etc would also have been terrible choices for Labour.

What's most mystifying though is how the fuck Farage's is somehow seen as an anti-establishment figure.

You utter cunts Basildon.

That said, Basildon is wall to wall cab drivers.

Yeah, that's what I don't get.

I absolutely do get why labour doesn't appeal to a big sector of the traditional labour support, but Farage seems to have done a number with his so called "anti establishment" schtick.

What's up with the Welsh?

The gap is getting worse

No London boroughs yet though.