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On eve of defining British EU referendum, rivals race for final votes
On eve of defining British EU referendum, rivals race for final votes
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron and his euroskeptic
opponents made final pitches for wavering voters on Wednesday on the eve of a defining referendum on European Union membership with the outcome still too close to call.The vote, which echoes the rise of populism elsewhere in Europe and the United States, will shape the future of Europe.
A victory for "out" could unleash turmoil on financial markets."It's very close; nobody knows what's going to happen," Prime Minister David Cameron told Wednesday's Financial Times, with opinion polls showing the rival camps neck and neck.European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker warned there would be no further renegotiation whatever the result on Thursday, after EU leaders reached a deal on a new settlement for Britain in February. French President Francois Hollande said a vote to leave would carry a "very serious" risk of ending British access to the EU's prized single market.
The referendum will take place a week after the murder of ardently pro-EU lawmaker Jo Cox shocked the country, raising questions about the tone of an increasingly bitter campaign.Much of the heated debate has boiled down to two issues: the economy and immigration.
Polling stations open at 0600 GMT on Thursday June 23 and close at 2100 GMT. The official result is due some time after 0600 GMT on Friday but partial results and turnout figures from 382 counting centers will be announced from about 0100 GMT.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident,” former vice president Biden said during a campaign event in Texas on Monday. "All men and women created by — you know, you know, the thing.”
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Get out and vote!
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Those idiots across the pond left the EU, throwing global markets into (probably short term) turmoil.
Great points made in the Financial Times editorial this morining. Trump supporters, take heed. This could be us.
I think you're going to see a lot of different United States of America over the next three, four, or eight years. - President Donald J. Trump
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Time will, of course, tell.
I think that it is a disaster for Europe, and it will be a miracle if we aren't eventually dragged into it.
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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They will now have to stew in their own porridge.
"Do not confuse motion and progress, A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress"
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Another example of Drumpf's ignorance on international affairs:
Donald Trump's Brexit Reaction Missed a Big — Yuge, Even — Detail About Scotland
GOP presumptive nominee Donald Trump hailed Scotland for voting to leave the European Union on Friday morning after landing in the country to check on his golf resort in Turnberry.
In a tweet, Trump wrote he saw Scotland "going wild over the vote" when he landed. "They took their country back, just like we will take America back," Trump continued. "No games!"
But here's the thing: Scotland didn't vote to exit the EU.
In fact, the country voted widely in favor of remaining by 62% to 38%, though the United Kingdom as a whole decidedly voted to leave the union.
Trump then posted a statement on Facebook regarding the decision, noting, "I hope America is watching."
This sharply contradicts what he said just days before in an interview with Fox Business Network. "I don't think anybody should listen to me, because I haven't really focused on it very much," he said. "But my inclination would be to get out, because you know, just go it alone."
Meanwhile, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told an Edinburgh press conference that the decision to exit the EU means a second referendum for Scottish independence is "now on the table."
"As things stand, Scotland faces the prospect of being taken out of the EU against our will. I regard that as democratically unacceptable," Sturgeon said.
Maybe someone on his staff should get him a book on international relationships.
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Thanks Ron.
I don't know what's more dangerous, trump's ignorance or his arrogance
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Rongone wrote:
Another example of Drumpf's ignorance on international affairs:
Donald Trump's Brexit Reaction Missed a Big — Yuge, Even — Detail About Scotland
GOP presumptive nominee Donald Trump hailed Scotland for voting to leave the European Union on Friday morning after landing in the country to check on his golf resort in Turnberry.
In a tweet, Trump wrote he saw Scotland "going wild over the vote" when he landed. "They took their country back, just like we will take America back," Trump continued. "No games!"
But here's the thing: Scotland didn't vote to exit the EU.
In fact, the country voted widely in favor of remaining by 62% to 38%, though the United Kingdom as a whole decidedly voted to leave the union.
Trump then posted a statement on Facebook regarding the decision, noting, "I hope America is watching."
This sharply contradicts what he said just days before in an interview with Fox Business Network. "I don't think anybody should listen to me, because I haven't really focused on it very much," he said. "But my inclination would be to get out, because you know, just go it alone."
Meanwhile, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told an Edinburgh press conference that the decision to exit the EU means a second referendum for Scottish independence is "now on the table."
"As things stand, Scotland faces the prospect of being taken out of the EU against our will. I regard that as democratically unacceptable," Sturgeon said.
Maybe someone on his staff should get him a book on international relationships.
Someone REALLY has to clue this man in before he opens his yapper ! 
"Do not confuse motion and progress, A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress"
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Let Trump be Trump.
Please!
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Someone please explain to me, in reasonable terms, how the narrative that Brexit is somehow a failure that falls directly on the Obama White House, and, at the same time, is a triumph of the Drumpf campaign and a harbinger of his election in the fall.
Fox 'news', Breitbart, and other conservative websites and 'news' outlets are pounding this narrative ad nauseum. Who buys into this BS?
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