Posted on 06/02/2016 9:42:52 AM PDT by Michael van der Galien
A shocking new poll has been released in Britain by The Guardian, one of the country's leading newspapers. According to the results, 52% of British voters now believe their country's interests are best served by getting out of the European Union.
A so-called Brexit would cause a political earthquake in Europe. As we reported earlier, it's likely that it would result in more referendums in other member states about the fate of the EU.
The last month or two, the European powers that be in Brussels were sitting back while polls showed the Remain camp firmly in the lead. That has now all changed:
Public opinion has shifted towards the UK leaving the EU, two Guardian/ICM polls suggest as the referendum campaign picks up pace with voters split 52% -48% in favour of Brexit, whether surveyed online or by phone. Previous polls have tended to show voters surveyed online to be more in favour of Britain leaving the EU. But in the latest ICM research, carried out for the Guardian, both methodologies yielded the same result a majority in favour of leaving.
Our poll rather unhinges a few accepted orthodoxies, said ICMs director, Martin Boon. It is only one poll but, in a rather unexpected reverse of polling assumptions so far, both our phone poll and our online poll are consistent on both vote intentions and on the EU referendum.
When those without a firm opinion on the matter are included, the Leave camp now leads 45% to 42%. Once the undecideds are filtered out, Leave proponents like former mayor of London Boris Johnson and UKIP leader Nigel Farage are firmly in the lead with a majority of British voters backing them...
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I tried to warn them at the time not to go along with this farce.
I think Brussels still calls the shots, but we’ll see.
Hope against hope the EU breaks up into two dozen very small pieces.
The anti-establishment wave is global, and there are no better representatives of the establishment than the Brussels bureaucrats.
This morning’s news that EU bureaucrats want to force them to use official government ID’s to log into Facebook should only boost those numbers.
But...but...then the UK will drop into the abyss!
And shiftless, socialist Scotland will leave the UK and join the EU!
You don’t want that to happen, do you??
A very timely ping! (-:
Unprecedented and totally unexpected..
Um, it’s shocking because it isn’t like 82%.
EXACTLY!
I heard Geert Wilders said that if Britain goes, the Netherlands probably will too.
It’s call Cessation.
Oh please please PLEASE let them drop a bomb on the EUe!
I hope it happens, but I’m pessimistic. All the powerful are aligned against the people
I hope the U.K. Government or E.U. doesn't preform Shenanigans with the Results, it looks like it just might Happen.
I wonder what the mood of average people over there are, or if the Financial Firms are preparing? ;)
Shocking? More like sanity.
Not “shocking”; a true ray of hope.
This is all theater for the masses.
Even if 60% vote to leave it isn’t going to happen. Not for real. Cameron and company will say it takes a couple of years of negotiation and legalities to complete and then they will pull a legislative rabbit out of the hat that keeps them in.
The wildcard will be Londonstan and the Scottish Socialist Republic.
Two places that would vote to dismember the nation if they could.
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