Brexit now leading by 10 points

You get sunlight in Britain?

What?!

Daytona 500

The whole news stations can't report about elections until they are over thing seems like a double edged sword to me.

He makes some excellent points. Absolutely no new powers shpuld be given to the EU until it becauses a democratic state accountable to the will of the people. That is a fundamental right which cannot be removed from the people.

Are polls closed now?

Tyrannical empires die by the swords they live by. The EU bureaucracy is going to paper-shuffle its way out of existence.

Its quite a big island.

To be fair, we have had a brilliant June weather wise in Scotland. Been over 20degrees, dry and sunny most days, which for us is practically tropical!

I was playing golf in shorts and tshirt tonight until 10pm

A European Army and a United States of Europe, I doubt citizens of the EU would let that fly.

I wonder what the turn out will be like?

It's a pretty good idea in that it prevents the media from indirectly effecting the election's outcome with sensationalist horse race stories for ratings.

Turn out is being reported as the best in 20 years. Around 70% on average and above 80% in some places.

11/382 counties(?) in, leave is winning, barely.

How come it take the UK so long to count votes? Do they still use the Roman numeral system or have they converted to decimal?

Restrictions on use of exit polls in reporting, as I understand it (no guaranteed freedom of the press in the UK, remember), and no precinct-level reporting. Also the counties (am I using the right terminology here?) are only reporting 100% results, not partial results like in the US.

EDIT: also, it's all paper ballots, I think. Dunno if they're electronically counted, but there's no instant tabulation.

Under EU mandates, do the ballots have to use recycled paper?

Farage seemed rather down. I'm wondering if he knows things that he can't share.

Is exit polling forbidden? I know the media is restricted, but can someone conduct their own exit polls?

http://www.timesofisrael.com/brexit-figurehead-farage-says-uk-will-likely-stay-in-eu/

~1/16 of total turnout counted, and Leave is winning 53-47.

I don't know the specifics, but I imagine it's a reporting restriction rather than a polling one. That way they can call bullshit after the fact.

This is certainly turning into a nail bitter. Farage conceded then unconceded and now brexit is ahead by 30k votes with around 5% of results counted.

The swings are pretty big as results come in (on CNN the results went from 49.3/50.7 to 53.8/46.2 based on a few precincts out of 382). I don't think there's any "trend" established by the results so far.

That's what I was thinking.

Conveniently, the UK set their voting times and counting procedures so that only the Americans are up to see the results.

This going to be tight all the way. 50.9-49.1 in favor of exit with 80% of the counting still to go.

Yep, back to (essentially) 50:50. It's going to be a rollercoaster ride.

~25% in and it's 50.1-49.9 in favor of Remain.

I really don't like the idea of shutting out the press in this.

Leave just pulled ahead.

Love seeing the remain politicians writhing in the seats.

Glorious.