British European lawmaker says goodbye to EU, he hopes

TWO weeks tomorrow, voters will hit the polling stations to decide Britain’s future with the European Union.

“This is a shambles the government has presided over and people must be given an extra day to exercise their democratic right”, he said.

British officials on Wednesday said they will extend the deadline for those wanting to register to vote in the upcoming referendum on membership in the European Union.

Undecided voters, on average, estimated that households would be 181 pounds worse off per annum five years after a vote to leave the European Union, compared with a hit of 110 pounds if Britain chose to stay, the survey showed.

With polls too close to call, hashtags related to a “Leave” vote have received over 800,000 mentions, against more than 400,000 for “Remain”, according to an analysis by social media monitoring tool Brandwatch.

That was more than seven times the number of people who had applied the previous Tuesday.

“But we know that the government and their allies are trying to register as many likely “Remain” voters as possible”, he said, adding: “Don’t let the government skew the result of the referendum”.

About 132,000 of the 525,000 people who did successfully register on Tuesday were aged under 25, compared with about 13,000 from the 65-74 age group.

The spike in advance of the cutoff began on Monday, when 226,000 people applied to vote.

Brexit would be “better for black people” seeking to come to Britain, Mr Farage said as he complained the Leave campaign was being falsely “demonised” as racist.

It was a tactic that Cameron, who is leading the Remain campaign, also used in a television debate with anti-EU campaigner Nigel Farage, whom he accused of wanting to turn the country into “Little England” rather than Great Britain.

Meanwhile, Leave-supporting Tory MP John Baron accused the Leave campaign of “fudging” the issue of immigration, after the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said net migration to the United Kingdom had climbed to 333,000 in 2015, three times Cameron’s “tens of thousands” target. They believe that if Scottish voters provide the victory margin that keeps Britain inside the 28-nation bloc, it will anger so many English voters who wanted to leave that it will make it easier for Scotland to gain independence.

“There is an assumption that Brexit is not going to happen – if it happens, no one is mentally fully geared up for it yet”, Philip Jacob, one of the researchers who authored the report, said in a phone interview from NY.