Brigg people went to the polls yesterday to have their say in the referendum on whether the UK should stay a member of the European Union or leave.
North Lincolnshire, of which the Brigg & Wolds Ward is part, voted 66 per cent to LEAVE and 34 per cent to STAY. And the national vote shows Britain WILL be quitting the EU.Brigg Blog didn't attend the count, which was held in Scunthorpe, rather than Ancholme Leisure Centre, Scawby Brook, where previously they've totted up votes for local elections.
But Simon Leonard was at The Pods for the Scunthorpe Telegraph, to cover the election count, the result of which was revealed earlier this morning. Link to coverage here...
Simon Driver, Counting Officer for North Lincolnshire, said everything ran smoothly. "There was a lot of counting to be done and I want to thank everyone involved."
We have now established our so- called democratic right and, for better or worse, we have to abide by the result.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I'm saddened that some folk did not vote for the simple question on the referendum paper and seemed to believe that they were choosing some alternative mandate.
Yesterday, for example, a group of 4 OAP's, like myself, claimed that they had voted for Brexit because they preferred Boris to David C to be PM.
Another guy, which I will describe as a blue collar worker, was voting out to resolve the 'Asian immigrant crisis in Bradford'..
Talking to my daughter this afternoon; she lives in London, there appears to be both economic and personal reprcussions within hours of the Leave announcement.
Personal friends are under threat of imminent redundancy - they work in an international patent office in the City and clients are rapidly tranfering their business elsewhere as no-one can guarantee whether a breakaway UK patent has safeguards within the rest of the EU.
According to my daughter, 40 percent of a building consortium, with its base in Canary Wharf has been given its cards as the parent company is now planning to implement its contingency to re-locate to Europe.
My daughter's family is now preparing papers to claim dual Irish/British citizenship....one significant reason being my granddaughter needs medication for life, and without the EU medical assurances, her life chances to travel and seek job opportunities in Europe would essentially cease.
Some say the the UK's withdrawal from the EU will stimulate the break-up of the Union with other countries leaving....is this a good thing?....if it happened, Britain would not have to re-nogatiate trade details with the EU, but also with the separist breakaway countries.
Scotland, in my opinion, will become independent and there will be a mounting debate on the unification of Ireland.
Borders will become fragmented..and, I would suggest, that France will withdraw, within months, its cooperation with it migrant centres around Calais.
Already, we see crises in both major political parties...any weakness could be infiltrated by extreme wing ideologies.
Watch out for an Autumn General election....as leading Conservatives have said today on Radio 4, Boris is not necessarily the choice of many Conservative MP's...Similarly, Corbyn may invoke a No confidence vote...
We are certainly at the start of a period of crisis management...please don't think you will in this quiet backwater of Brigg will escape change.
One fact that has emerged, is that the older generation referendum preferences has affected, for better, or worse, the life opportunities of the young....
We can only hope that the wisdom of the elderly is the better outcome.....
Nige...re your recent comments about the trawlerman....
ReplyDeleteLet's not get fact twisted with smoke and mirrors.
The facts are that cod and haddock stocks in the North Sea were being over-fished and such stocks were nearing extinction.
The Iceland Gunboat Deplomacy of around the 60's/70's were the result of severely depleted stocks.
Cod and haddock were long-lived fished and took years to mature and breed.
The Euro Community, with agreement of fishing countries agreed to reduce fishing to allow stocks to recover...this could take decades....the other alternative was to allow free for all fishing with the imininent danger that stocks would become extinct and fishing fleets would realise their own demise.
The UK takes about 95 percent of cod/haddock so it was particularly affected.
Other plentiful fish supplies were unaffected.
Consequently, trawler fleets were severely depleted; those made redundant were compensated and those trawlers which were allowed to fish had imposed quotas.
The twisted smoke and mirrors - often portrayed by UKIP was that the UK fishing fleets was just destroyed by the EU.
It was often suggested that while our fishing fleets were severely restricted by fishing quotas, other EU fishing fleets were allowed to trawl UK waters at will.
Back to the facts ..the imposed cod/haddock quotas applied to all fishing vessels....but most of the other EU boats were not fishing for such fish.
The Spanish trawlers, often claimed by UKIP, fishing around Cornwall, as an example of the EU's unjust control of fishing rights, were actually fishing for sardines.
The cod/haddock stocks are now recovering and quotas have been increased - pleasing the narrow fish diet of the UK population.
If we believe Nigel Farage, an improving supply of cod/haddock will be the result of leaving the EU ignoring the reality that there was long-term environmental fishing crisis and that there was a need to severely restrict fishing for cod/haddock...and the subsequent improving stocks has evolved from such agreed EU quotas....and not from some nasty, nonsensicatal EU mandate..
Nige...re your recent comments about the trawlerman....
ReplyDeleteLet's not get fact twisted with smoke and mirrors.
The facts are that cod and haddock stocks in the North Sea were being over-fished and such stocks were nearing extinction.
The Iceland Gunboat Deplomacy of around the 60's/70's were the result of severely depleted stocks.
Cod and haddock were long-lived fished and took years to mature and breed.
The Euro Community, with agreement of fishing countries agreed to reduce fishing to allow stocks to recover...this could take decades....the other alternative was to allow free for all fishing with the imininent danger that stocks would become extinct and fishing fleets would realise their own demise.
The UK takes about 95 percent of cod/haddock so it was particularly affected.
Other plentiful fish supplies were unaffected.
Consequently, trawler fleets were severely depleted; those made redundant were compensated and those trawlers which were allowed to fish had imposed quotas.
The twisted smoke and mirrors - often portrayed by UKIP was that the UK fishing fleets was just destroyed by the EU.
It was often suggested that while our fishing fleets were severely restricted by fishing quotas, other EU fishing fleets were allowed to trawl UK waters at will.
Back to the facts ..the imposed cod/haddock quotas applied to all fishing vessels....but most of the other EU boats were not fishing for such fish.
The Spanish trawlers, often claimed by UKIP, fishing around Cornwall, as an example of the EU's unjust control of fishing rights, were actually fishing for sardines.
The cod/haddock stocks are now recovering and quotas have been increased - pleasing the narrow fish diet of the UK population.
If we believe Nigel Farage, an improving supply of cod/haddock will be the result of leaving the EU ignoring the reality that there was long-term environmental fishing crisis and that there was a need to severely restrict fishing for cod/haddock...and the subsequent improving stocks has evolved from such agreed EU quotas....and not from some nasty, nonsensicatal EU mandate..
Add to the expected schism...Gibralta...an EU member on the grounds of UK's membership...expect to lose the outpost within the next few
ReplyDeleteyears.
The only outside politicians that have greeted Brexit with support are Sarah Palin, Donald Trump and France's Marine Me Pen of the Front Nationals party (BNP type)
Putin will benefit from the weakening of the EU...so expect some Russian interference in ex-Soviet countries, such as Latvia..etc over the next few years.
Europe could potentially develop into a fragment continent with ardent extreme political groups muscling in on any exposed political weaknesses....
History should remind us that such groups tend to perceive outsiders/minority groups as the cause of their country's ills.
Add to the expected schism...Gibralta...an EU member on the grounds of UK's membership...expect to lose the outpost within the next few
ReplyDeleteyears.
The only outside politicians that have greeted Brexit with support are Sarah Palin, Donald Trump and France's Marine Me Pen of the Front Nationals party (BNP type)
Putin will benefit from the weakening of the EU...so expect some Russian interference in ex-Soviet countries, such as Latvia..etc over the next few years.
Europe could potentially develop into a fragment continent with ardent extreme political groups muscling in on any exposed political weaknesses....
History should remind us that such groups tend to perceive outsiders/minority groups as the cause of their country's ills.
Boris is like the dog with the bone....but now, he has no idea what to do with it.
ReplyDeleteI hope that the electorate will remember BoJo & co's Brexit promises and make them accountable for such claims.
When, for example, will we see the promised £350 million a week pumped into the NHS.
The NHS is under severe pressure, not because of the young and fit EU immigrants queuing in the casualty dept, but because old fogies like me, will multiple and complex ailments, are living longer than our forebears...