Britain Backs Brexit – Against All Expectations

Britain Backs Brexit – Against All Expectations, Forbes, June 23, 2016, "The remarkable has happened. Against all the polls, against all the expectations, against all the pressure, the British people have voted to leave the European Union. Brexit has won. In the end, the vote was massive – 72.2% turnout – and decisive: 51.9% for Brexit, a margin of approximately 1.3 million votes. Regionally, the breakdown was equally clear: London and a few other major cities, mostly in the south, voted to remain, as did Scotland and (narrowly) Northern Ireland, while England as a whole, and especially the north, voted to leave. It was really the north that won it for Brexit. There, Brexit piled up big majorities which more than offset losses in London and Scotland. In some ways, this was as much a vote against the dominance of London as it was against the EU."