Google has predicted a landslide victory for the big Brexit vote today in the UK – perhaps the most important vote in the history of the European Union. We’ll know by tomorrow if Google was right!
Google made their prediction based on the search traffic between May 31st and June 7th. The results were that of the 326 county boroughs in the UK, 315 favored “Leave” while only 11 favored “Remain”.
Google’s prediction came only hours after a new YouGov survey gave the “Leave” voters a massive 7-point lead over “Remain” – 46% to 39% – the largest lead for Brexit since the start of the EU referendum.
On Wednesday June 22, 2016, The Daily Mail – Britain’s 2nd-largest newspaper strongly endorsed the “Leave” vote on Thursday. Their headline reads: “Lies, Greedy elites. Or a great future outside a broken, dying Europe… If you believe in Britain vote Leave.”
According to the British newspaper, Express: “…it appears Britons are rejecting David Cameron’s ‘Project Fear’ tactics, which he hoped would scare voters into remaining in the EU.” Prime Minister Cameron had threatened last weekend that Britain, after a Brexit vote, may not be able to afford to continue to pay pensions. A disgusting political football.
John Mills, chairman of the Labour “Leave” campaign retorted: “The British public are now beginning to realize that staying in the EU is bad for working people and their families. This poll clearly shows that people do care very deeply about reclaiming our parliamentary sovereignty, rebuilding the NHS from money we will no longer have to hand over to the EU, and stopping open-door EU immigration which has suppressed wages and put so much pressure on our public services.”
