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Johnson (left) and Hunt during a recent TV debate Han Yan/Xinhua News Agency/PA Images

Poll: Do you think the UK will leave the EU by Christmas?

Johnson told the BBC last night the UK would be out by 31 October, while Hunt says he “expects” Brexit by Christmas.

BOTH OF THE men hoping to be Britain’s next prime minister participated in BBC interviews last night, with Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt setting our their case to be the next Tory leader.

The pair have promised to deliver Brexit after Theresa May failed to do so in her three-year premiership. 

Johnson told the BBC that the UK will leave the EU by 31 October “come what may”, while Hunt says he “expects” Brexit to happen by Christmas. 

Two set dates for the UK to leave the EU have already come and gone, with May failing to get her withdrawal agreement through the House of Commons on a number of occasions. Rather than leave without a deal, Brexit was deferred. Could it be deferred again?

So, what do you think? Do you think the UK will leave the EU by Christmas?


Poll Results:

No (7116)
Yes (5130)
Not sure (945)

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    Mute Billy Nomates
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    Oct 3rd 2013, 10:39 AM

    Can’t wait for me nite out with the girlos xxx

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    Oct 3rd 2013, 10:55 AM

    Had a great nite last nite wit me BFF xxx

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    Oct 3rd 2013, 11:08 AM

    Hope Ur OK Hun xxxx

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    Mute Brian Guilfoyle
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    Oct 3rd 2013, 11:29 AM

    :-(

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    Mute Qwerty
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    Oct 3rd 2013, 11:31 AM

    Sum @ashooles about. Like if ya have sumtin to say say it to my face b1tch!!!

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    Mute Ignoreland
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    Oct 3rd 2013, 3:14 PM

    Lyk diS if u Cry evry tym xoxoxox

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    Mute Hope Ur OK Hun xxxx
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    Oct 3rd 2013, 10:23 PM

    <3 pm me hun <3

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    Mute Billy Nomates
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    Oct 3rd 2013, 11:05 PM

    All men are tiks

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    Oct 3rd 2013, 10:14 AM

    I have so many problems with this study I hardly know where to start.

    Firstly, not only the US bias, but the focusing on what is probably a sector of the population rather than the population as a whole. It looks as if there a hella lot of Republican voters out there.

    And relating emotional stability to interest in sport looks highly dubious to me. Sporting activity is a highly focused, demanding discipline. Following it requires a focus that borders on monomania which is not conducive to “sanity”. Football, athletics and cycling require focus and dedication. Of course perhaps sports *fans* are like that. But the unacknowledged high levels of depression in sport (Collymore, Speed etc) leads me to believe that something in their study is flawed.

    And when it comes to “gender”, well I want to bang my head repeatedly off a wall. It appears clear to me from examining the word cloud that gender is a constructed concept. I love the way “government” and “country” go into the “male” – because girlies don’t give a toss how we’re governed as long as our nails look nice, right.

    This is a simplistic portrait that insults sportspeople by calling them emotionally stable (which is nothing more than a euphemism for “unimaginative” most of the time) it insults emotionally unstable people by putting them in a box, it insults men, women, Americans and non-Americans. Epic Fail.

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    Mute ryan dobson
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    Oct 3rd 2013, 10:21 AM

    Yes. Very insulting all round. This study does not represent me as a person or a user of facebook. I am more than words. Very poor study.

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    Mute Paul Ibbs
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    Oct 3rd 2013, 10:21 AM

    I like all the points you make but I’m not sure if their study is ‘flawed’ exactly. I think it is simply the beginning of an interesting area of study. I totally agree with you that their “claims” are over the top and simplistic but I can’t believe they think they have “proved” anything but it’s an interesting start.

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    Oct 3rd 2013, 10:23 AM

    ^^^
    What Susan said

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    Oct 3rd 2013, 10:34 AM

    ^^^
    Like.

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    Oct 3rd 2013, 1:09 PM

    Wow, you make it a partisan issue. Great job.

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    Mute Pat O'Brien
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    Oct 3rd 2013, 10:34 AM

    How can this be a serious study when there are no cute first baby pics in any of these clouds??

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    Mute Moe Sizlack
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    Oct 3rd 2013, 10:31 AM

    I like beer.

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    Oct 3rd 2013, 11:24 AM

    So a persons behaviour gives you a good chance of guessing their personality type?
    No way.

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    Oct 3rd 2013, 7:24 PM

    hahahahaha its true !!! and even looking at the words “fight” “battle” “football” means msot likey a man and “boyfriend” “clothes” msot likely a girl,you dont have to be a detective to figure it out !!

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    Mute Stephen Mc Elligott
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    Oct 3rd 2013, 10:30 AM

    I hate sports. America and its sporty bias. You must be definitely unstable emotionally if you don’t like sport, what a load of garbageeee.

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    Mute Brian Ó Dálaigh
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    Oct 3rd 2013, 2:30 PM

    Actually Stephen, that’s not what either the article above or the report states. I’ll slightly exaggerate it so you may understand better: those who put up sports related status updates tend, based on the survey group, to be more stable. It doesn’t suggest you have to have an interest in sport to be stable.

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    Oct 3rd 2013, 10:24 AM

    I wonder who funded this…..Facebook *cough*

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    Oct 3rd 2013, 10:43 AM

    ;) i see what you did..Calpol ;)

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    Oct 3rd 2013, 11:58 AM

    The fact that we’re here talking about the study is all the incentive a university needs to shoe-horn a popular platform like Facebook into a study.
    All the coverage makes the department looks good.

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    Oct 3rd 2013, 10:55 AM

    So sports fans tend to be more emotionally stable than non sports fans?
    Seeing as how most sports fans are male it’s hardly surprising….

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    Oct 3rd 2013, 11:23 AM

    And the higher suicide rate is amongst males… (sorry to bring that up, not actually point scoring but pointing out that while a man may appear emotionally stable that is often not the case). This ‘study’ is rubbish in so many ways. People edit themselves and project a persona when on the net, often hiding their real emotions or thoughts because they are afraid of being judged so the results are flawed.

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    Oct 3rd 2013, 11:27 PM

    I dunno, there’s some sports fans who are far from “emotionally stable” otherwise there would be no such thing as football hooliganism.. I will never understand two or more grown men physically fighting over a football team none of them is or ever will be a member of..

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    Mute Tom Kenny
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    Oct 4th 2013, 12:17 AM

    They’re not fighting over football, same as they’re not fighting over religion in the north, much more to do with tribalism, the football match is just a place for them to vent their frustration/anger. Where as the genuine supporter or the guy playing is involved in the experience and will most likely get satisfaction from the release of emotion around the actual match……….

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    Oct 3rd 2013, 11:01 AM

    Now let me think … Why would Facebook conduct this analysis? Figuring out more targeted marketing / advertising perhaps?

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    Oct 3rd 2013, 10:53 AM

    Meh

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    Oct 3rd 2013, 11:01 AM

    And can the same be said for fake profiles.

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    Oct 3rd 2013, 11:41 AM

    I understand that the researchers could access people’s gender and age, but what way did they ascertain people as having baseline extroversion or neuroticism? They surely can’t figure that out without a correlating independent psychological assessment? Mystery of the missing data.

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    Oct 3rd 2013, 10:22 PM

    my status updaytes r alweys de troot <3 <3 xxx

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    Oct 3rd 2013, 10:32 AM

    Time to update status?

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    Oct 3rd 2013, 11:28 AM

    I read this yesterday… on Broadsheet.

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    Oct 4th 2013, 12:34 PM

    More Yankee bullshit!

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    Oct 3rd 2013, 5:06 PM

    Haha so stupid. According to this researcher I’m 15 years old even if I’m 40.

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