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I'm in a stupor.

Dropbear Victim wrote:
Yay! You did it guys. Sovereignty! Freedom! Democracy!

 Avatar 720 wrote:

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
Yay...I guess?

What a cluster feth this entire campaign has been...

I hope we can at least all unite one last time to publicly lynch Cameron.

Feed him to pigs I say.

Or have the pigs face feth him.

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:

Dropbear Victim wrote:
Yay! You did it guys. Sovereignty! Freedom! Democracy!

 Avatar 720 wrote:

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
Yay...I guess?

What a cluster feth this entire campaign has been...

I hope we can at least all unite one last time to publicly lynch Cameron.

Feed him to pigs I say.

Or have the pigs face feth him.

Word is that Boris is taking over.

 thedarkavenger wrote:

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:

Dropbear Victim wrote:
Yay! You did it guys. Sovereignty! Freedom! Democracy!

 Avatar 720 wrote:

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
Yay...I guess?

What a cluster feth this entire campaign has been...

I hope we can at least all unite one last time to publicly lynch Cameron.

Feed him to pigs I say.

Or have the pigs face feth him.

Word is that Boris is taking over.

As PM or pig fether?

Question folks. I hear that the pound is tanking but how's the Euro doing right now?

Boris for PM!

That's not funny.

Back on topic, the result is surprisingly not at all close. At the time of writing (6:30) it's over a 7% margin in favour of Leave. That's not arguable, Cameron will have to act.

If he actually still wants a chance to save the EU he should dissolve parliament and call a general election to form a new government to carry out the process of reversing the treaties. The reason for this is that current government policy is to Remain, and people deserve the opportunity to vote Boris and Farage into power to handle the exit negotiations.

I saw it a while back being asked for, but this was the voting demographic for age brackets by a YouGov poll.

18-24: 75% Remain
25-49: 56% Remain
50-64: 44% Remain
65+: 39% Remain

 SolarCross wrote:
Boris for PM!

Feth no.

Congrats on the win!!

Welcome back to the free world.

Good morning my UK friends. I have no dog in this hunt, but I'm still very interested in this evening's news (I'm currently vacationing in Hawaii, so it's just after supper-time here in beautiful Kona). Being a decedent of Sir John Hawkins (and hence, also of William the Conqueror), I've always held a keen interest in the affairs of the UK.

I'm not sure why I didn't trust the recent polls, but I'm surprised at the result. I think most are. I'm afraid that this surprise will only make the financial impact worse re: the S&P, etc. Nikkei is down 8%. S&P futures down too. Gold is up.

You know the Chinese curse. I'm afraid we are at the start of a sea-change in world politics. One away from bureaucrats and globalism. I should have seen it when Trump took the Republican nom, but today's vote really hit it home for me.

Are so many people are angry and not happy with the status quo? Is not life pretty good? My normal motto is "don't rock the boat", or "keep on doing what your doing", so this result is freaking me out a little.

Anyways, best of luck to my UK friends, however you may have voted.

Mez

I don't have a smilie big enough to express my joy!

I am very glad I changed £400 into Japanese Yen yesterday.

 Ketara wrote:
I wish America would allow me to borrow a tank for the weekend.

You're not missing much. Finding parking for one is atrocious.

 Kilkrazy wrote:
I am very glad I changed £400 into Japanese Yen yesterday.

As are a lot of other businesses who changed halfway through the night. I think Japan stopped trading for a while.

Well don't worry Britain, after the rest of Europe ostracizes you and your currency finishes flat-lining, we'll take you under our fold.

Not as a state though, no no... something else. Some kind of... "colony", one might say. Some kind of entity that's under our umbrella but has no... representation in our governance.

We wish all our friends in the UK the best!

If it doesn't work out, you could always just become a Canadian province. God knows we may consider doing the the same thing depending upon how things go in November.

Canada will finally know what it's like to have a beard! xD

Dark times ahead..

Oh well, Scotland will be back in the EU before too long.

The incoming lurch to the (even further) right will not be pleasant.

 Frozocrone wrote:
I saw it a while back being asked for, but this was the voting demographic for age brackets by a YouGov poll.

18-24: 75% Remain
25-49: 56% Remain
50-64: 44% Remain
65+: 39% Remain

 SolarCross wrote:
Boris for PM!

Feth no.

Who better than Boris? I can only think of Nigel Farage as possible alternative. Honestly I like Boris better though in fairness Nigel deserves a lot of credit for this historic day.



Nigel for PM!

 Silent Puffin? wrote:
Oh well, Scotland will be back in the EU before too long.

The incoming lurch to the (even further) right will not be pleasant.

Yeah, it's going to be Grim for all of you Englanders that aren't in London.

I just hope the job losses whilst we figure out what's going on won't be too severe.


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 BuFFo wrote:
Welcome back to the free world.

What free world?

We've just handed away a lot of our "freedoms".

How does Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Cananda and many others get by without the EU?

As a dual citizen I'm not sure exactly how much this will affect my ability to travel as freely within the Eurozone with a British passport. Will it be harder to get a working/travel Visa now? Anyone want to explain this for me?

I think it's much better off (eventually) for Britain to leave, but there's a lot of negotiation and difficult diplomacy ahead. Although once the uncertainty passes Britain should be better off.

There are also quite a few downsides to leaving the EU though, also the fact that Scotland and Northern Ireland voted differently might cause more than a bit of discord. UK might be headed on a slippery slope toward K.

Now other EU countries might look to follow suit.

I'm interested to see how it works out, hopefully it's for the best, but more than a few feathers have been ruffled.
It all depends on how negotiations pan out now...

I remember in history studying the Australian republic referendum in 1999. There were calls for Australia to leave the Commonwealth. For the future it'll be interesting to see how long the Commonwealth lasts. I was kind of expecting similar results form Britain in the EU vote. I knew it'd be close but I was surprised to see the result. I was expecting the opposite.

Good luck to everyone in the UK going forward.

It looks like most of the EU would rather punish you than participate with you. Which in my mind rather justifies the leave.

 Flying Pooo wrote:
UK might be headed on a slippery slope toward K.

That has been true for years, its just that we are near to the bottom now.

The recession is going to be great.

How long before people realise what they've done. The only good thing to come out of this is. they wont be able to blame the EU. for all the feth ups anymore.

Well not suprised at the vote result; only seen one remain poster between here and the City in the last four weeks.

I look forward to the Dave Cameron "this was all part of my plan guys, I'll take it from here" show. I hope someone is sharpening metaphorical knives behind his back somewhere because we can't trust him with two years of negotiations.

Annoyed at the absolute lack of decent leaders these days and indeed opposition.

Boris it is then.......wiffwaff anyone?

 Scrabb wrote:
Good luck to everyone in the UK going forward.

It looks like most of the EU would rather punish you than participate with you. Which in my mind rather justifies the leave.

The eurocrats are not "most" of the EU. Regular people all over the EU have serious concerns about it, Brexit could be just the beginning of a string of defections. Then no more EU.

Better together? Not a single Scottish constituency voted to leave.

 Frozocrone wrote:
I saw it a while back being asked for, but this was the voting demographic for age brackets by a YouGov poll.

18-24: 75% Remain
25-49: 56% Remain
50-64: 44% Remain
65+: 39% Remain.

So...

Leave for a while, and then when the Olds die off, re-remain?

 Future War Cultist wrote:
How does Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Cananda and many others get by without the EU?

Largely by forming close trading relationships with their major trade partners, like what Europe is for the UK.