{"id":181446,"date":"2016-06-23T23:38:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T04:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/06\/23\/your-brexit-update\/"},"modified":"2016-06-23T23:38:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T04:38:00","slug":"your-brexit-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/06\/23\/your-brexit-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Brexit Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 310px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/3llaowm.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/3llaowm.png\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>It&#8217;s been close all night, but the trend has been clear<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/40heq5O.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/40heq5O.png\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>The geographic divide is pretty clear<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/M6mIdU4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/M6mIdU4.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>The history of EU elections mitigates against this coming to fruition<\/i><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/politics\/eu_referendum\/results\">EU Referendum Results<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There were 46,501,241 votes cast, with 15,203,370 leave votes and 14,157,273 stay votes counted at this point, which means that Brexit leads by 51.8% to 48.2% and the stay votes will need to get 56.1% of the remaining vote to win.<\/p>\n<p>So, my prediction appears to have been wrong, and Britain will vote for a Brexit. <\/p>\n<p>Rather unsurprisingly, there was a significant geographic divide, with England and Wales going Brexit, and Scotland going stay. (middle pic)<\/p>\n<p>The question, of course, is what it all means.&nbsp; I&#8217;m inclined to believe, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moonofalabama.org\/2016\/06\/brexit-not-gonna-happen.html\">Moon of Alabama posits<\/a>, that neither Cameron, nor the EU, nor the City of London will meekly accede to this vote as the bottom pic clearly shows.<\/p>\n<p>I rather expect that we will be talking about &#8220;When the Brexit finally happens&#8221; 10 years from now. <\/p>\n<p>The pics will pop up if you click on them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been close all night, but the trend has been clear The geographic divide is pretty clear The history of EU elections mitigates against this coming to fruition I&#8217;ve been following EU Referendum Results. There were 46,501,241 votes cast, with 15,203,370 leave votes and 14,157,273 stay votes counted at this point, which means that Brexit &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,984,1110,1053,1016,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-europe","category-european-union","category-immigration","category-international-commerce","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}