The passage of time in Wellington and elsewhere
from the Telegraph live feed.
Results seem to be showing narrower wins for Stay or larger or unexpected wins for Leave.
Working class/Labour areas so far, more for Brexit.
Looks increasingly depressing.
Millions of voters are casting their ballots in a historic referendum on whether the UK should remain in the European Union or leave.
Source: European Union referendum: UK goes to the polls – BBC News
It’s Thursday evening here and he polling stations have opened. Nervous about the result.
Skeptical? I once believed NSA wouldn’t ignore constitutional complaints. Then I heard this: (CC: @Thomas_Drake1)https://t.co/weCMMLAVS9
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) June 5, 2016
My opportunity to vote.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/picture/2016/jun/01/steve-bell-on-david-camerons-eu-campaigning-cartoon
Andrew Bridgen says Conservatives so fractured over EU that fresh election needed, while Nadine Dorries says prime minister ‘has lied profoundly’
David Cameron’s hopes of being able to avoid terminal damage to Conservative party unity after the EU referendum campaign were dented on Sunday when two rebel MPs openly called for a new leader and a general election before Christmas.
The attacks came from Andrew Bridgen and Nadine Dorries – both Brexiters, and longstanding, publicity-hungry opponents of the prime minister – and their claim that even winning the EU referendum won’t stop Cameron facing a leadership challenge in the summer was dismissed by fellow Tories.
The reason we’re having a Referendum about EU membership has nothing much to do with EU membership. It’s because Cameron needed some way of getting the Europhobes in his party off his back. So he threw them a Referendum, much as one would throw a leg of lamb to a pack of baying wolves. Some thought it was a stroke of tactical genius at the time. In fact it was a colossal strategic error, because — whatever happens on June 23 — the Tory party has been rent asunder. And it’s hard to imagine a vote that will change that. Even a large Remain margin won’t appease the Euronutters. A narrow Remain vote will simply make them salivate for a return match. And of course a Leave vote will mean that both Cameron and the country are screwed. Some genius, eh?
Source: David Cameron, political genius (not) | Memex 1.1
A blog I have followed for years. So much interesting reading, including the above.
Campaigners cheer ‘crushing defeat’ for industry after judge backs standardised packaging rules on eve of introduction
Plain packaging of cigarettes will be mandatory from Friday after the high court in London rejected an attempt by the tobacco industry to prevent the change in the law.
Campaigners say other countries considering plain packaging – including Canada, Hungary, Norway and Slovenia – will be encouraged by the defeat of the industry.
“This landmark judgment is a crushing defeat for the tobacco industry and fully justifies the government’s determination to go ahead with the introduction of standardised packaging,” said Deborah Arnott, chief executive of the charity Ash (Action on Smoking and Health).