The unofficial 2nd EU referundum taking place today 23rd May 2019

Of course it's not officially a 2nd referendum, GracesGran, but masses of people are voting as if it were, i.e.for the party that best supports Remain or Leave, as the case may be.

I suspect that a lot of people who usually vote Labour will be putting their X elsewhere, ditto disaffected Tories. Presumably habitual LD or SNP supporters will mostly be voting as usual.

They had a light hearted poll in our town centre last week which is in a Brexit area. Display board showed strong majority for Remain, but ofcourse it was self selecting, as this thread is. I voted Lib Dem today, but am in a street of Brexiters .

Waiting outside

Ahhh...tiny tot.

Hope he/she voted Lib Dem!

EllanVannin they were very long forms!

Yes one of us voted Lib Dem the other Green - hedging our bets

We did the same whitewave.
By-elections are always an opportunity to protest against the incumbent government. This is no different but it will be hugely expensive.

Any kind of brexit would be hugely expensive - and not just in economic terms.

As I previously pointed out Witzend, a poll at the weekend found that 49% said they were voting to indicate their preference re Brexit or the EU. I appreciate that if you and you friends see it that way you may think everyone does but that simply isn't true.

Farage promises something that he cannot deliver, the UK cannot just "walk away" from the EU, despite what people might think.

Sounds like something out of Hotel California.
'You can check out any time you want but you can never leave'.

varian - as I previously said, perhaps the most 'expensive' thing will be the brain and skills drain. Already we know that EU doctors, nurse, researchers, plumbers, builders, etc, etc - are not coming any longer, are actually leaving. But if we get a No Deal Brexit- I predict that it will be our own home bred of all the above who will desert the country- seeking much better and open opportunities elsewhere, in the EU and out.

The whole family voted Lib Dem in the hope of keeping the Brexit party out. Fingers crossed.

Democracy went out of the window nearly 3 years ago whichever way you voted.

We did LibDem/Green. I thought my Green vote might be a mistake but was prepared to take a gamble. Irritated today by a long time forum [not this one] 'friend' who I've always liked and got on with very well saying he's getting an Irish passport; I'm pretty sure he's a leave voter. Shouldn't be allowed [imo].

Like all those British expats living in France and Spain, etc, who voted Leave
and now bitterly complain they are going to be affected

Did someone reply Labaik - when are the WTO elections?

Surely Leave voters will not wish to be ruled by unelected bureaucrats from Geneva, have tariffs and quotas set by those same unelected bureaucrats - and be at the beck and call of 164 countries, with NO say. Would they?

As Brits living in another EU country we elected to vote here despite receiving our voting papers from the U.K. - you are honour bound to only vote in one country.
There are specific rules for people living in another EU country to the one which issues their passport. The U.K. only allows you to vote for 15 years after migrating and that is for referendums and General elections - you are not allowed to vote in local elections. In France we are allowed to vote in Municipal elections and the EU referendums - not Presidential elections or for MPs.
So the EU citizens living in U.K. who were turned away and told to vote in their own country were being told wrong information by an official who was ignorant of the rules.

We went at 5 (ish) and had to wait for a booth. We were told that there was a good turn out and the second box was almost full.

Exactly, GGMK3 - so a good many people are not treating it as a normal MEP election, but as a means of registering their feelings re Brexit or Remain.

I suspect that the turnout will be rather greater than usual for MEP elections, where turnout is usually pretty dismal. As for opinion polls, they've been embarrassingly way out more than once - embarrassing for the pollsters, I mean.

I know of 2 people (not myself) who went to their polling station and wrote "Are you having a laugh?" ( or similar) across their ballot papers.

We used our postal ballots to vote for the Brexit Party a few days ago as we knew we’d be over here in Malaga on polling day.

Just heard that Mr Macron’s europhile Renaissance faces being beaten into second place by Marine Le Pen’s National Rally!

Is that a good thing? Well, it is if you are a far right extremist I guess.

‘Primary do a nice line in brown shirts.....’

Nasty comment!