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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums3 reasons that may have tipped balance against Remain: young people don't vote, bad weather (london)
and people who want to change things tend to be more passionate and motivated to act.

cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)"back of the queue" for trade agreements if they voted to leave.
Not good form threatening a country you're visiting.
SickOfTheOnePct
(7,639 posts)SickOfTheOnePct
(7,639 posts)I don't think that's a valid excuse.
hill2016
(1,772 posts)As for London, there were fears that the heavy rain could have damaged turnout in the pro-Remain area. Several polling stations were forced to move because of flash floods. London indeed did have a lower than average turnout.
muriel_volestrangler
(102,980 posts)Figures here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_United_Kingdom_European_Union_membership_referendum,_2016
London turnout 69.7%, compared to average 72.2%, so 2.5% lower. It voted roughly 60/40, so if there was a higher turnout, 1 in 5 votes would cut the Leave lead. So that's 0.5% of the London electorate, or 0.5*(2,263,51+1,513,232)/69.7=27,000, roughly. Compared with a Leave country-wide lead of 1.27 million, it's not significant. Even if London could have been a high turnout area, and the loss was twice as much, it's about 55,000 in 1,270,000.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Being ruled by one's countrymen is one thing; being dictated to, down to the shapes and sizes of vegetables allowed to be sold in markets, by Brussels is quite another.
NO AMERICAN WOULD STAND FOR IT.