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Well this is depressing. Not that proof were needed that this country is populated by a majority of absolute morons.

Genuinely feeling sick in the stomach.

I posted this a few pages ago but here's an overview from UCL's Constitution Unit on the mechanics of it all.

This is a bit i dont understand at all. Is the fact that I just fixed my mortgage for 2 years really fucking bad?

Congratulations, Turkeys.

I have celebratory stuffing for you.

Like almost 70% Brexiters round here it turns out. I don't want to go outside. At least after the election I knew that I wasn't surrounded by fucking Tories where I live. Same feeling all over again. Knew this was coming right from back then, though.

Who knows. Currency tanking may mean an interest rate rise in the short term, but the global depression this is likely to trigger may mean they stay low for decades to come.

I have a couple of questions.

1. Can I still buy Euromillions lottery tickets?

2. When will the first new hospital be opening?

So. Everywhere voted out then, except London?

Manchester and Liverpool voted remain.

4 out of the 5 districts in the Shire did. Mine went 'Leave' by a handful of votes. Grrr...

Well for fuck's sake, I never actually expected the Leave crazies to win.

Congratulations to the fine Conservative Government for giving the people of Britain this historic chance to blow their own fucking feet off.

I am on leave this week, I expect to be watching the news all day. Cameron is going to have to go, surely? Holy shit Boris might actually be PM.

Can we have Gordon Brown back?

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The Glorious South Hams voted remain.

And Scotland. Bring on indyref2 I say, a vote for the UK was a vote for the Eu was it? Pffffft

What happens with the Irish/NI border now then? It'll be the only land border between the EU and the UK. and border control will need to be massively stepped up, won't it? That could have serious ramifications.

I have a Dutch friend living in Japan who Tweeted: 'Is it fun, England, to know that all you needed to do to change the whole world was pick up your ball and leave the game? Feel powerful now?'

I feel her anger, towards us, and towards me. My vote did not helpsave the situation, and I'm actually just really upset.

Cameron resigning

Is he? Actually? I've been waiting for news. Fuck

Cameron speaking now, rumours are he's going to resign. (I've got BBC News 24 on.)

...........

And.... He's gone. Blimey. (Out by the start of the Conservative conference in October, he says.)

Gove or Boris for PM then. Well done everyone!

Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Get used to seeing those words.

Europe really is a stunningly poisonous subject for the Tories, isn't it?

'Stop banging on about Europe' Cameron once said, and the subject of Europe has taken him out.

Corbyn can't be far behind I expect, if not this week then pretty soon.

Indyref2 now almost certainly will happen given Scotland overwhelming voted Remain. I'm going to start looking into relocating to Edinburgh and claiming Scottish citizenship before the split!

They can't close the border. Not without repealing or amending the Good Friday agreement, and that's a really, really bad idea...

I think it’s very unfair to characterise “leave” voters as crazies and morons. Mrs K voted leave for some fairly sound reasons, and we had many a discussion over it, but I remained a Remainder, whilst respecting her views. Mind you, her views weren’t based on “urgh, forrins” like so many others. Perhaps people voting leave should have had to pass a test as to whether their reasons for voting leave amounted to more than “the Sun told me to”.

And all those Leavers who were pissing and moaning about the democratic deficit – where we you in the last few General Elections when turnout was the lowest, like, ever? I expect to see sky high turnouts from now on.

Bring on LondonRef

Who the PM will be during the stinking aftermath is really neither here nor there, surely? The immediate future is going to be filled with rich, self-interested people trying to keep a grasp on their money while everything falls down around them.

How can over half of a country think that their tiny island in the sea has any hope of maintaining the tariffs and trade deals negotiated by Brussels on behalf of the EU states? The rest of the world is going to look at Boris, bimbling around, stamping his feet like an entitled old colonialist and say "Fuck you Britain".

Brexiters will be all over Facebook whinging how much more expensive a pint is compared to last year in the Costa Del Sol, next month.

TBF, other countries manage it without help. e.g. Australia, Japan etc.

Also, mega-heh at "tiny island in the sea" from someone living on a literal tiny island in the sea.

Well, Japan's economy has been a disaster area for the last decade.


Lindsay Lohan is going to be so very disappointed in Britain.

Fuck. Fuuuuuuuuk. This really is almost too much to bear: fuckwits win by 2%, everything is unraveling before my eyes. At this rate, scrabbling back up that slippery bank these last 6 years will have been for nowt.

Well, I hate to be bitter, but I hope people are proud of themselves in the coming weeks, months and years. Cretins.

Farage speech was unlistenable

Of course the worst part of all this is that we no longer have a leg to stand on when pointing and laughing at Americans voting for Trump.

Especially not when we get Boris as PM. We won't even be able to laugh at his fucking hair.

Indeed Cras. Ignorance is strength, huh.

Say hello to the new boss. Don't worry, everything will be fine.

The fact the knobhead has a huge surfeit of hair is just the icing on the cake for me
But actually, I don't feel like joking around today. Very sad

Ah fuck it. It's done now.

for other reasons. My point was, as you we ll know, that countries of a size with us, and indeed smaller, have been able to achieve trade deals with all and sundry without having to rely on a supranational institution to help them.

And we'll be well in there with President Trump.

Former EU commissioner and Labour cabinet member Lord (Peter) Mandelson not fucking about this morning on Sky news

You have a Dutch friend living in Dutchland who doesn't blame you for anything

My feelings are such that the only words I can reach for are the Duke of Bourbon's, Henry V, as his army broke and everything he believed in tumbled around his ears.

"Shame and eternal shame, nothing but shame."

The best production I ever saw of that, the words were fucking wrenching. And they stayed me with ever since.

You'll have to cross the border to get to work.

Because of... not a high enough birth rate and not enough immigration. And it's only going to get worse for them.

Sound familiar?

Gutted.

Well, like Mark says, it's done now.

Time to pick up the fucking pieces...

Without a bullet fired. Jo Cox.

Without a bullet fired.

I don't think she was killed because of the referendum.

I think she was killed because someone had felt the state had failed him, and living in isolation and suffering for decades whilst the world around changed. It changed without him and he saw the immigrant population succeed; buying properties and cars whilst he walked the miles to the library each day, jobless. He saw the state helping them more than he, and felt isolated because the state didn't care about people like him. So he acted against the state that had betrayed him.

No, he killed her because she was sympathetic to Muslims who were being attacked in her consituency, and he was a neo-Nazi. And all the anti-immigration sentiment that was stoked during the Leave campaign pushed him over the edge.

I'm off to a BBQ tonight with my Third Floor Gallery buddies, most of whom are Europeans living over here. I know we planned it so it might be more in order of a wake, if the worst comes to the worst, but I'm almost too embarrassed to show my face.

I'll go, naturally. But... gngh.

Good to know we've got Cracker amongst us.

FFS.

Also, that's the UK farming industry totally fucked too. What happens to the CAP? I highly doubt the UK government is going to pick up the subsidy bill in full.