It's been close all night, but the trend has been clear
The geographic divide is pretty clear
The history of EU elections mitigates against this coming to fruition
There were 46,501,241 votes cast, with 15,203,370 leave votes and 14,157,273 stay votes counted at this point, which means that Brexit leads by 51.8% to 48.2% and the stay votes will need to get 56.1% of the remaining vote to win.
So, my prediction appears to have been wrong, and Britain will vote for a Brexit.
Rather unsurprisingly, there was a significant geographic divide, with England and Wales going Brexit, and Scotland going stay. (middle pic)
The question, of course, is what it all means. I'm inclined to believe, as Moon of Alabama posits, that neither Cameron, nor the EU, nor the City of London will meekly accede to this vote as the bottom pic clearly shows.
I rather expect that we will be talking about "When the Brexit finally happens" 10 years from now.
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