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FUCK YES LET'S LEAVE GET HYPE YEY

Casual yes, let's leave and get independence done with

Meh, probably just scribble all over my vote ballot to spite tryhards

Casual no, let's remain and get integration done with

FUCK NO LET'S REMAIN GET CALM YEY

[Adragis]

Not stormy here. Just cloudy
.

[Powder Miner]

"oh you know I have strong opinions on the very future of my country but ehhh it's raining"

[Starver]

High-level solid cloud layer,  no sign of rain <checks forecast> No sign of rain until Saturday and the pollen count is Very High (knew that already...)

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Twister!!!/waterspout... 

[Adragis]

"oh you know I have strong opinions on the very future of my country but ehhh it's raining"

Sad but true.

[Orange Wizard]

"oh you know I have strong opinions on the very future of my country but ehhh it's raining"

Sad but true.

Not really

[Adragis]

but
but that always happens when I do bake sales

same thing right

[Dorsidwarf]

Hey LW, can you change the thread poll to a (BR)exit poll for forumites?

[Orange Wizard]

but
but that always happens when I do bake sales

same thing right

If polling were a bake sale we might get better turnout

Fuck me that's actually a good idea - give people gift baskets or something when they turn up to vote.

[Loud Whispers]

Not really

A handful of studies provide solid empirical evidence on the impact of rain on voting. In the most sophisticated analysis to date, Gomez, Hansford and Krause show that one inch of rain reduces turnout with about one percentage point in US presidential elections. This is a small, but statistically significant effect. They also argue that republicans benefit from rainfall during election day, since democrats are more likely to abstain from voting when it rains. However, as said before, the effect found is small, but still big enough to have an impact on close elections. In fact, they go as far as saying that if it had rained less in 2000, Al Gore would have won Florida and become the president of the United States instead of George Bush.

Climate Change destroyed Al Gore

how's the weather
still storming?
here it's sunny as hell, I'm already feeling like I'm being roasted on a grill

It seems fine enough now, but for the souther southernors the flooding's already happened

The Environment Agency issued four flood warnings covering rivers in Bromley, Sidcup and Basildon, and 22 flood alerts across the south-east, with the showers expected to ease off mid-morning and intensify again during the afternoon.

People on social media described rain seeping into polling stations, with one voter in Chessington describing how she had to be carried over rivers of water.

Another said she had seen people “rolling up trousers and removing shoes to wade barefoot through dirty water” to get in to vote.

Kingston council has closed one of its polling stations, in Devon Way, due to flooding, telling voters to go to the Hook Centre instead.

However, across the rest over the country, especially northern England and southern Scotland, voters are enjoying balmy weather, with sunshine and temperatures up to 20C, so the weather is unlikely to affect turnout in the majority of the nation.

Overall result should be good

Hey LW, can you change the thread poll to a (BR)exit poll for forumites?

I've locked the poll cos I like the 100 forumite spread we accrued over the course of the run-up

http://www.strawpoll.me/10562210
Use this thing instead

Also lol, Beeb is killing it

[Antioch]

latest polls of votes cast predict 52% stay 48% leave.

They predict stay has a 76% chance of coming out on top.

[Sheb]

Sun in pro-EU scotland and northern England, rain in the South? Will Brexit fail because of the wheater? :p

[Adragis]

I'm in the Southwest, it's all fine over here.

[Sheb]

Oh, actually Northern England is pro-exit, and souther in pro-remain? Jeeez, I'm sure I remembered otherwise.

[Loud Whispers]

Oh, actually Northern England is pro-exit, and souther in pro-remain? Jeeez, I'm sure I remembered otherwise.

I'm not sure where you remembered that from, imagination is not as reliable a source as yougov :P
One of the really cool things as well for me personally is that London is extremely pro-EU and extremely pro-UK, split on horizontal and vertical lines - you get some of the most polarized groups all in one place

The places like Bromley that are experiencing flooding issues are mixed eurosceptic-europhile, but flooding has shut down many London Underground stations in rush hour in heavily europhilic counties, so I dunno how that will play out. Hopefully people aren't too apathetic after the soggy day

[Sheb]

Oh, come on, we both know you want everybody to abstain, so that you and BoJo are the only two person voting before sloppily making out on the ballot box.