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RIVAL SIDES ARE throwing their efforts into the final day of campaigning ahead of tomorrow’s vote on Britain’s EU membership.
Prime Minister David Cameron is conducting a spate of last-minute interviews to get his pro-EU message to voters before polls open at 7am tomorrow.
“Nobody knows what is going to happen,” he told the Financial Times. “I believe it will one way or another be decisive. Britain will not want to go through this again.”
The Remain camp has the slimmest possible lead – 51% versus 49% support for the Leave side, according to an average of polls compiled by What UK Thinks.
In a final push to win over the undecided voters who could tip the referendum, campaigners will speak at rival Leave and Remain rallies taking place within hours of each other in London.
Representatives from both sides clashed during a BBC debate last night. A final television debate will be broadcast on Channel 4 tonight, featuring anti-EU UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage and former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond for Remain.
The prospect of Britain becoming the first state to defect from the EU in the bloc’s 60-year history has raised fears of a domino-effect collapse of the European project.
European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker has urged Britain against leaving the EU. He described it as “an act of self-harm” that would endanger everything Europeans had worked together to achieve.
Two newspapers used their front pages today for last-minute endorsements of opposite sides of the campaign.
“Lies. Greedy elites. Or a great future outside a broken, dying Europe,” the Daily Mail wrote. “If you believe in Britain vote Leave.”
But the Daily Mirror urged readers to back EU membership “for your jobs … for your children … for Britain’s future”.
The campaign has been fought over the two key issues of the economy and immigration, with both sides accusing the other of “scaremongering”.
The Mirror described it as “the most divisive, vile and unpleasant political campaign in living memory”.
Jo Cox
Around the world, events will be held to mark what would have been the 42nd birthday of MP Jo Cox, who was murdered last week on a street in her electoral district in northern England.
Thomas Mair is due to appear in court for a preliminary hearing after the killing. In his first court appearance he gave his name as “Death to traitors, freedom for Britain”.
Cox’s widower Brendan said his wife, a noted pro-EU campaigner who advocated for refugee rights, had been killed because of her political views.
“She worried about the tone of the [referendum] debate … The tone of whipping up fears and whipping up hatred potentially,” he told the BBC.
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Bernie…Bernie come back ..we’re sorry don’t leave us with this muppit….
@David cotter: if it was Bernie v Trump…then Trump would definitely win…. he’ll probably win anyway but Bernie would make it a certainty.
@SFAnkleTapper: Trump would disagree with you. He’s on tape as saying Sanders would have beat him in 2016 and a lot of Trump voters would have voted for Sanders also.
@SFAnkleTapper: What on earth are you talking about? Every single recent poll has Bernie Sanders and Biden both beating Trump in a general election. Not even Fox News has Trump winning.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/
@Benedict XVI: would they be the same polls that had Hillary as a shoe in? Btw I’m no Trump supporter.
@Corporate capitalism is killing us: your actually using Trump as a basis for a credible story….
@SFAnkleTapper: Biden is a bumbling clown who needs to retire, check his gaffes on YouTube. Bernie would be far stronger them sleepy Joe.
@SFAnkleTapper: Biden’s greatest strength is that it is Trump he is going to be running against. Trump makes Biden’s weaknesses less blatant and Biden is a clear contrast to the type of president Trump is. If it was Biden competing against any other candidate, then I wouldn’t bet on Biden. But with Trump anything is possible (both for Trump and against Trump).
@Benedict XVI: Don’t believe those polls and don’t be taking it too serious. You are most likely going to be disappointed when the results come in.
@SFAnkleTapper: Even though it hurts me to say this,i agree with you in saying that Biden has a much better chance than Bernie.Where I won’t agree with you is dissing the polls that Benedict put up,Trump is not up against Hillary this time.Also,he’ll struggle in the Rust Belt..
@Corporate capitalism is killing us: brilliant, Trump saying that was to try to further divide a very fractured democrat party not an actual acknowledgement that he could have lost.
@David cotter: Bernie is from Ireland? Or do you watch the West wing too much
I thought Democrats where bad when they selected Hillary Clinton as there presidential candidate 4 years but they’ve really outdone themselves this time round
America always gets the politicians it deserves.
@David Shiels: This is a recurring theme for you, am I right? For the record, I like Joe Biden. I would have preferred Bernie.
@David Shiels: Like us? Haughy, Cowan, Ahern, Adams etc.
@Kevin O’ Brienhttps://youtu.be/-rUvUxynOgk
@Macus Mc Mahon: ok
Sanders making a habit of giving up. His voters must be p*ssed off at this.
The only way Biden will win is if he has a decent vice president nomination or if the trump brigade give up on their chosen one. Biden has completely lost the left and continues to put his foot in it further.
@Gerald OBrien the left have lost themselves
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