Taking the Brexit

Agent Starling · **Joined:** 8th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 1701

This is all looking very depressing. ?:|

Malc · **Posted:** Fri Jun 24, 2016 2:08

Agent Starling wrote:

This is all looking very depressing. ?:|

Indeed

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

Go look at Lindsay Lohan's Twitter. Go do it now.

https://mobile.twitter.com/lindsaylohan ... 6032745472

Quote:

@Independent why? prove the UK will not trigger anger by allowing (sunderland) to lower the UK pound - THIS IMPACT WILL CONTROL ALL MARGINS

Fuck the BBC, I'm getting my coverage direct from The Lohan.

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Jun 24, 2016 2:13

Lohan is amazing.

Malc · **Posted:** Fri Jun 24, 2016 2:22

Lambeth, Exeter and Oxford all remain! Can losing the gap a bit.

Malc · **Posted:** Fri Jun 24, 2016 2:22

Malc wrote:

Lambeth, Exeter and Oxford all remain! Can losing the gap a bit.

Can losing - closing

Malc · **Posted:** Fri Jun 24, 2016 2:23

Glasgow takes remain into the lead

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Jun 24, 2016 2:24

Yeah Glasgow!

Malc · **Posted:** Fri Jun 24, 2016 2:29

London seems to want to stay. Wandsworth is stay

ApplePieOfDestiny · **Joined:** 17th Dec, 2008 **Posts:** 8293

For fucks sake, gaywood.

Malc · **Posted:** Fri Jun 24, 2016 2:52

Over 6.6 million votes counted, and leave is winning by 3000 votes!

Malc · **Posted:** Fri Jun 24, 2016 2:53

30,000 now

Malc · **Posted:** Fri Jun 24, 2016 2:54

RemiN up by 4,000 no 55,000

Liverpool remain! Didn't expect that

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

Looking to me like it's going to be leave.

Malc · **Posted:** Fri Jun 24, 2016 3:36

Yeah, approaching half way mark, and leave wining by 350,000

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25597

Just too depressed to sleep now

Agent Starling · **Joined:** 8th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 1701

Mimi wrote:

Just too depressed to sleep now

Also the pound seems to be worth about 2p now.

Sir Taxalot · **Joined:** 5th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 4674

I'm not getting much work done today, watching the numbers come in. I've never been much of a fan of Alex Ferguson (though I do respect his achievements) but it really does seem like 'squeaky bum time'

I'm nervous. I want to stay in Europe, but I have a few friends that are vehemently supporting leave (and posting all that horrid junk). Facebook has seen some heated discussion and, I think, a fair amount of close-mindedness.

Agent Starling · **Joined:** 8th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 1701

Agent Starling wrote:

Mimi wrote:

Just too depressed to sleep now

Also the pound seems to be worth about 2p now.

Quote:

Currency traders say these moves are more extreme than those seen during the financial crisis of 2008.

"Never seen anything like it. These are once-in-a-lifetime moves, bigger than Lehmans and Black Wednesday, and we haven't even had the result yet," said Joe Rundle, head of trading at ETX Capital.

Malc · **Posted:** Fri Jun 24, 2016 4:44

The BBC has called it, saying no way for remain to win, with 70 regions to declare, leave is winning by just under 900,000

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Jun 24, 2016 4:45

Oh dear

Malc · **Posted:** Fri Jun 24, 2016 4:47

So, my grandad is from the isle of Skye, my dad from Greenock, I'm from London, I live in the south hams, and work in Exeter.

All voted to stay, so you can't blame/thank me.

Cavey · **Posted:** Fri Jun 24, 2016 4:48

Oops. So much for my forecasting skillz

Fucking twats. Meltdown has already started I see.

Sir Taxalot · **Joined:** 5th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 4674

Fuckkkkkkk - Please please please don't end up with leave winning.

(although, I'm not sure how it will really affect me currently, other than the fact I was planning to sell the flat we still have in the UK and buy a house out here - a weak pound will be bad for me there).

KovacsC · **Posted:** Fri Jun 24, 2016 4:55

57 left to declare.

Kern · **Posted:** Fri Jun 24, 2016 5:14

Oh dear.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Fri Jun 24, 2016 5:28

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16562

This absolute fucking shithole of a country.

Sir Taxalot · **Joined:** 5th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 4674

I can't shake the feeling that in years to come this will be rued as an awful, awful mistake. Feels like people have been deceived and have actually voted to be worse off.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Fri Jun 24, 2016 5:37

Sir Taxalot wrote:

I can't shake the feeling that in years to come this will be rued as an awful, awful mistake. Feels like people have been deceived and have actually voted to be worse off.

Yes, but it worked.

Kern · **Posted:** Fri Jun 24, 2016 5:39

We weren't expecting them to use pens. Rumbled!

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16562

Sir Taxalot wrote:

I can't shake the feeling that in years to come this will be rued as an awful, awful mistake. Feels like people have been deceived and have actually voted to be worse off.

I'm more worried that they've voted for the rise of the populist right across Europe and the end to an era of relative stability.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38469

Jesus Christ. Pictures of people celebrating when the pound has fallen 10% and the FTSE is expected to open 19% down.

That's a fifth of the value gone overnight.

Champagne time you cunts.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16562

Don't worry it's just a blip. Once Gove, Farage and Johnson are in charge we'll be racing ahead.

TheVision · **Posted:** Fri Jun 24, 2016 6:11

Well that's torn it. If nothing else, this has proven that this forum and my Twitter feed is full of good people.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16562

But that the country at large is 52% full of total fucking halfwits.

I desperately hope I'm wrong and that the instincts of mouth breathers are weirdly more accurate when it comes to the markets and geopolitics than those of more or less every financial and political expert. Time will tell I suppose.

Dr Zoidberg · **Joined:** 15th Oct, 2010 **Posts:** 5172

Fucking twats. I'm off to New Zealand.

Peter St. John · **Joined:** 26th May, 2008 **Posts:** 298

Cavey wrote:

Oops. So much for my forecasting skillz

Fucking twats. Meltdown has already started I see.

I have spent the past month desperately hoping that you were right like last year. Not often that has happened

.

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

UK economy collapsed by $350 billion in the space of a couple of hours. Currency in the toilet. Pensions decimated. Scotland and NI want to break up the Union. Global markets in a state of panic. That went well then.

And Boris Johnson isn't even Prime Minister yet.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Fri Jun 24, 2016 6:41

So what happens now. This was advisory?

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16562

Can't wait to at least see Cameron's face later this morning. Some little crumb of cold comfort.

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11843

Just saw the news as I woke, genuinely feel sick. Wtf Britain.

Goddess Jasmine · **Posted:** Fri Jun 24, 2016 6:51

Genuinely shocked.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

markg wrote:

Can't wait to at least see Cameron's face later this morning. Some little crumb of cold comfort.

It's not often I have sympathy for Cameron. But if I was in his shoes, I'd be tempted to put a motion to trigger Article 50 into the commons today, then as the pound and the FTSE burn to the ground, resign and hand the whole mess over to Johnson and Gove to look after. See how far their venal ambitions have taken us.

I'm bewildered and angry and sad. We will rue this day. Not just for the direct consequences of this outcome, but for what it means for political discourse.

Morte · **Posted:** Fri Jun 24, 2016 7:04

...goes off to look at property in Dublin.

Dr Zoidberg · **Joined:** 15th Oct, 2010 **Posts:** 5172

I'm genuinely looking seriously at emigrating to New Zealand now.

miki · **Joined:** 30th Apr, 2011 **Posts:** 1458 **Location:** NL

I'm also gutted
first thing I thought was "Cavey promised it wouldn't happen"

I however have the sad sad feeling that the same referendum in my own country would have yielded the same sickening result
small minded, dumb, racist people live in many countries

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22277

Well... fuck.

Silver linings to all this? Umm... interest rates aren't likely to rise anytime soon?

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11843

What is article 50?

Kern · **Posted:** Fri Jun 24, 2016 7:15

The clause in the treaty that sets out the exit procedure.

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