Brexit win - 11 threads into one

[SueEllen]

Orkney

63% remain

37% leave

68% turnout.

[northernladuk]

Newcastle

129,072

Remain 65,404 (50.7%)

Leave 63,598 (49.3%)

If the results are that close can anyone actually say 'remain' won? I'd say they have a nightmare on their hands. Nothing good can come from figures like that surely?

[GB9]

Newcastle 65k in - 63k out. Smaller majority than expected.

51% vs 49%

This is much, much closer than forecast.

[tarbera]

Odds are tumbling from 10/1 leave to 5/2 now

[GB9]

If the results are that close can anyone actually say 'remain' won? I'd say they have a nightmare on their hands. Nothing good can come from figures like that surely?

Much closer than forecast. Either a rogue result or the polls were wrong.

[jamesbrown]

Whoops

Newcastle Brown (pants) Ale.

[northernladuk]

UKIP make massive gains due to people having a problem with immigration, we nearly leave Europe based strongly on peoples problem with immigration. You'd think the smart politician would actually take that in to account and start taking it seriously. But I doubt it.

[GB9]

No really, it's a looooser and fantastically boring. The EU needs to come hard on those rebels.

I don't really want anyone coming hard on me if that's OK?

[minestrone]

As I said earlier, I don't know anyone who voted 'remain' (I mean people I see on a daily basis) but most of these people are also SNP voters, so the SNP supposition that their supporters are pro-eu are well wide of the mark.

37% of nationalists were leave I heard in one poll.

[northernladuk]

A bloke on Radio 4 made the same argument about this being to important to be left to the uneducated Everyman and got heckled. He oddly went on to make the best argument for it than either the leave or remain have managed to make for their campaigns since it started. Was pretty cool.