The mood at Glastonbury 2016, mid-EU referendum
In muddy queues, talk is turning to the potential Brexit
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Your support makes all the difference.As the rest of the UK nervously awaits the results of the EU referendum, Glastonbury is in high spirits. With the opening ceremony having taken place - an event that was three times as big this year (there were three sets of fireworks instead of one) - people are loudly shuffling through the one-way system to Shangri-La to kick-start their weekend.
However, there's a spectre hanging above everyone's head; the next day, the U.K. will decide whether to stay in the EU or go it alone. In the hour long queue towards the venue, many around me are talking about the referendum, an event that will redefine our country's place in the world.
"It's ridiculous that we've let people decide whether we're in or out," Dan, in his late twenties, dressed in loose clothing and with voluminous hair, tells me. "I haven't voted because I don't believe in democracy, most people are uneducated idiots."
Another festival-goer reveals she too has yet to vote but wants to remain. In actuality, most of the people I speak to haven't voted before the festival via the postal vote, yet all seem to want to remain in the EU.
"I would hate to leave," Laurie says, her blonde dreads tied up behind her head. "I want to travel Europe, do things out there. I don't know why they don't let us vote online, it's an outdated system."
It's a sentiment shared by many here who would like to vote but haven't. "I've only been back in the country 5 days, and haven't haven't had time to sort out a vote," Lewis, from Devon but who lives in Vietnam, says. "Obviously, I want to stay in."
In the end, though, once we've meandered through the masses and finally reach the electro-swing bar, £10 notes are exchanged for cocktails (with little to no change received), and the night continues, most of the crowd blissfully forgetting that in just a few hours the UK could change forever.
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