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Lithuanian MEP and former poker player Antanas Guoga has challenged UKIP leader Nigel Farage to a \u20ac1 million bet on the outcome of the EU referendum. RT looks at this and other mad gambles in Brexit news.<\/p>\n
Guoga, a multi-millionaire thanks to his poker-playing career and online gambling empire, bet Farage the equivalent of US$1.13 million or \u00a3771,000 Britain will vote to remain in the EU on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The MEP appeared to be poking fun at Farage after his recent publicity stunt of betting \u00a31,000 on Brexit.<\/p>\n
If Farage accepts the challenge and Britain votes to Remain, he will have to pay out \u20ac1 million to a charity of Guoga\u2019s choice, and vice versa if Brexit wins.<\/p>\n
Politico reports Guoga penned a letter to Farrage offering the challenge.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am so confident that the British people will do the right thing and vote to remain in the EU that I offer a \u20ac1 million charity bet to you on Leave!<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n Guoga describes himself as a \u201chuge advocate for EU reform.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cDon\u2019t leave Europe to Germany and France. That would be a pity for markets, businesses, researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs and creators worldwide<\/em>,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n Online betting website Betfair\u2019s current odds for a Remain vote are 2\/7, while the odds of a Brexit are 11\/4.<\/p>\n The latest opinion poll, by YouGov, found the Remain campaign is currently at 44 percent, while Leave support has fallen to 43 percent.<\/p>\n While considering this costly wager, the UKIP leader has also sought to defend a billboard he unveiled last week, which shows a vast line of refugees with the words \u201cBREAKING POINT \u2013 The EU has failed us all.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThat poster reflects the truth of what\u2019s going on. We have a new poster coming out tomorrow morning and we\u2019ll unveil a new poster for every day<\/em>,\u201d he told Sky News.<\/p>\n Farage has been forced on the defensive after recent polls showed support for Brexit is waning.<\/p>\n Senior figures in both the Remain and Leave camps denounced the poster, with Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon calling it \u201cvile and racist<\/em>,\u201d and Leave chief Michael Gove admitting he \u201cshuddered<\/em>\u201d when he saw it.<\/p>\n The billboard has also come under criticism for its striking similarity to a 1941 Nazi newsreel showing a long line of Jewish refugees on a forced march.<\/p>\n It turns out Britain\u2019s closest neighbors aren\u2019t too bothered about the UK leaving the EU. On the whole, they want Britain to stay in the EU, but not by a very big margin. Support for the UK voting to remain currently stands at 54 percent across all 28 EU member states.<\/p>\n On top of that, only 25 percent Europeans said they believed a Brexit would leave their country worse off, according to a poll by the German Bertelsmann Foundation.<\/p>\n As opinion polls on Thursday\u2019s EU referendum become harder to call, it appears Europeans have come to accept Britain may well leave the bloc.<\/p>\n \u201cEurope will also work without Britain if necessary,<\/em>\u201d German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble recently said.<\/p>\n Bertelsmann project manager Isabell Hoffmann said, \u201cWhat we have seen in our polling is that while the mood in the UK is incredibly agitated, the atmosphere on the continent has been relatively calm. The baseline response we are seeing is that people in the rest of Europe haven\u2019t really been shaken up by the Brexit debate<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n Animals may not be able to vote in the EU referendum, but that hasn\u2019t stopped them from sharing their opinions on the matter.<\/p>\n Britain\u2019s cats have come out in overwhelmingly support for remaining in the bloc. They even have a Twitter hashtag which began trending on Monday.<\/p>\n #CatsAgainstBrexit was kicked off by Lilian Edwards with this tweet:<\/p>\n As it quickly went viral, it inspired hundreds of other Europhile copycats.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Via RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lithuanian MEP and former poker player Antanas Guoga has challenged UKIP leader Nigel Farage to a \u20ac1 million bet on the outcome of the EU referendum. RT looks at this and other mad gambles in Brexit news. Guoga, a multi-millionaire thanks to his poker-playing career and online gambling empire, bet Farage the equivalent of US$1.13 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":250978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-250977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Farage defends \u2018racist\u2019 poster<\/h4>\n
Europe wants Britain to stay… just about<\/h4>\n
#CatsAgainstBrexit<\/h4>\n