News24white.png British vote 'a victory for real people' AFP, in London, in News24, Johannesburg, 24 June 2016 Britain has voted to break out of the European Union, national media declared Friday, striking a thunderous blow against the bloc and spreading alarm through markets as sterling plummeted to a 31-year low against the dollar. Investors scrambled to sell the pound, oil and stocks as Britain took a lurch into the unknown, becoming the first country to quit in the EU's 60-year history, a culmination of decades of suspicion over European aims of creating an ever-closer political union. With results in for 302 of the 382 areas that took part across Britain, the result was 52% for "Leave" and 48% for "Remain" -- with heavyweights including London yet to be declared. Sterling tumbled to $1.3466, its weakest level since 1985. "Let June 23 go down in our history as our independence day," said top anti-EU campaigner Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Indendence Party, who has promised Britons the chance to retake power from Brussels and rein in high immigration. 'Victory for real people' "If the predictions now are right, this will be a victory for real people, a victory for ordinary people, a victory for decent people," he told supporters in Westminster. Britain's national broadcaster BBC and Sky News both predicted a final victory for the "Leave" campaign. Lured by the promise of regaining control of their own destiny and reining in high levels of immigration, Britons chose to break from a 28-nation alliance that has offered unfettered trade access and the free movement of labour across its borders. Their decision will undoubtedly re-awaken fears of a domino-effect ripple of exit votes in EU-sceptic members that could imperil the integrity of the bloc, already struggling with twin economic and refugee crises. Prime Minister David Cameron, who led the ultimately doomed struggle to sway voters in favour of sticking with Brussels, will face immediate pressure to resign. The bookmakers' favourite to replace him is former London mayor Boris Johnson, a rival from within his ruling Conservative Party who was the "Leave" camp figurehead. From: http://www.news24.com/World/News/british-vote-a-victory-for-real-people-2016 0624 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 13698 (20160624) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/004a01d1cdf4%247c710130%2475530390%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
