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Britain votes on historic EU membership referendum today

EU leaders warned Britons that there would be no turning back from a vote to quit.

By :  sadhguru jaggi vasudev
Update: 2016-06-23 10:24 GMT
Millions of Britons began voting in a bitterly-fought, knife-edge referendum that could tear up the island nation's EU membership and spark the greatest emergency of the bloc's 60-year history.
A British withdrawal from the EU would trigger a lengthy exit negotiation, leading to the loss of unfettered access to its partners in the EU's single market and forcing the country to strike its own trade accords across the world.
EU leaders warned Britons that there would be no turning back from a vote to quit.
Prime Minister David Cameron, who has staked his political legacy on the referendum, implored people to vote to stay in the bloc at a final rally in Birmingham on the eve of voting.
Leading Brexit backer Boris Johnson, a former London mayor who is widely touted as a future Prime Minister, insisted the Leave' campaign was on the brink of victory.
With no exit polls under way, the result is unlikely to begin emerging before about 0300 GMT Friday.
As voters in a rain-swept London headed to polling stations, world financial markets were in suspense over the result.
The once-in-a-generation referendum asks: Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?'
A record 46.5 million voters have registered to decide on Britain's future in the 28-nation European Union, which was born out of a determination to forge lasting peace in the continent after the carnage of two world wars.
EU leaders warned Britons that there would be no turning back from a vote to quit.

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