UK to leave the EU

[badbadboy]

The xenophobes have ruled the day much to the UK's detriment IMHO.

They truly will be an island to themselves moving forward with a devalued British Pound, paying duties to sell their products to their former trading partners and trying to get free trade with the USA.

Britain has voted to leave the European Union.
The 'Leave' side crossed the threshold of 16,776,718 votes, winning with 52% of the vote.

 

[apl16]

Hopefully it will lead to a complete revamping of a good idea poorly implemented in its current design. As most agreements implemented in the last 40 years it has been mainly beneficial to corporations a complete disaster for the average Joe.

 

[Equity Market investor]

World and North American stock markets are now gonna get rocked hard to the downside. We could start off very sharply lower at start. Oil prices will head South, as well as our Canadian dollar.

Just when Alberta thought it couldn't get worse.

 

[mercyshooter]

Soon, EU will be dismissed. Amen!

 

[westwoody]

Why should lazy dogfuckers like Greece get to mooch off hard working people in the UK and Germany?

 

[wetnose]

This is going to be brutal for the UK. EU is going to make an example of them, to scare the holy bejeezus out of any other Euro country contemplating an exit.

I especially feel sorry for this lot:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...eave-it/?postshare=7231466777832071&tid=ss_tw

 

[westwoody]

They truly will be an island to themselves moving forward with a devalued British Pound, paying duties to sell their products to their former trading partners and trying to get free trade with the USA

They will renegotiate trade deals like the old Common Market, the UK and Continental Europe need each other.

The EU should have stayed an economic community instead of wandering into social engineering. The refugee crisis hastened an already inevitable process.

 

[87112]

Repeat rinse Repeat rinse. The stock markets tumbles than in 3 weeks rebounds higher than today. Repeat rinse.

 

[Cock Throppled]

Seems anybody In Europe, Britain or America who can type is writing long pieces on all the dire things that will happen, and what are we, about 12 hours removed from the results?

It's ridiculous. It's good to shake things up now and again.

Britain has the world's 5th biggest economy.

Things will work out.

 

[vancity_cowboy]

i'm reminded of all the dire predictions that were fed to us regarding our impending doom both before and after the meech lake accord referendum...

you do remember the meech lake accord referendum, don't you?

oh... and y2k too!

:yawn:

i agree with the previous poster, that half the brits were fed up with the e.u. social agenda, and they were willing to give up the economic benefits to rid themselves of the social burden. the term 'bloody minded englishmen' comes to mind

trump can only sit back and sigh, because the americans are too dumb/gutless to do what the brits just did - that is, tell their government exactly where to stuff it, and make the decision to go it alone. democracy in action! the worst thing about democracy is that ordinary people actually get a vote

 

[westwoody]

 

[Bridge]

There's a lot of truth to this quote unfortunately!

 

[Bridge]

The geographic and demographic analysis of the referendum make for sobering reading.

 

[badbadboy]

Top Google searches in the UK today were

"How to immigrate to Canada?"

"Applying for an Irish Passport." - presumably for Brits of Irish heritage so they can seemlessly work in the EU.

Seems the citizens there want out.The Germans and Belgians already said the negotiations start now and no going back.

Most interesting thing I noticed on social media was people didn't really believe the Yes let's depart side would actually win and voted with them regardlessly. Talk about being uniformed about the issue. Total clusterfuck all around that will unsettle the stock markets around the world.

 

[pro-boner]

There's a lot of truth to this quote unfortunately!

Are you kidding me! What an arrogant thing to say! I am tired of people dismissing the will (and intelligence) of the people just because they don't agree with you. This is an affermation of democracy, in that my vote is equal to yours and that the people rightly or wrongly wish to have a say in the direction that their country will go and not be dictated to by the left or the right for that matter. I for one am tired of having the average joe dismissed as an ignorant slob. It is their country just as much as anyone else's. I can see that sometime people get sick and tired at being told what is good for them, when perhaps they see evidence with their own eyes to the contrary. They know that there will be repercussions, and perhaps think it is worth the cost. The pro EU side had ample opportunity to make their case. Perhaps and shocking that it may seem, their case did not have traction, especially with folks that have a lifetime of experience. The implicit denigration of our seniors, our parents, just because there is disagreement I find appalling.

 

[Strataca]

The xenophobes have ruled the day ... The 'Leave' side crossed the threshold of 16,776,718 votes, winning with 52% of the vote.

That's a lot of people to call xenophobes. Are you sure you're not generalizing too much and ignoring their point of view?

 

[badbadboy]

That's a lot of people to call xenophobes. Are you sure you're not generalizing too much and ignoring their point of view?

Have you listened to any of the comments from the exit polls or read their views on social media? It's quite shocking really.

Most didn't know what they were really voting on or didn't take it really seriously, thinking that it was a protest vote against the EU to get their attention.

The EU is not a perfect marriage because countries like Greece, Portugal, Spain and Italy to name a few do not pull their fair weight. The Germans, UK and France were bearing a lot of the costs to support the EU. The UK had a referendum that got a similar vote as our HST vote i.e. a protest vote against the Government.

 

[Larry Storch]

Do Over????

 

[Hugh Jass]

Do Over????

Aint happening. They lost and have to deal with it. The media thrust on this has been to emphasize the negative aspects of Brexit and portray its supporters as ignorant angy, white and old and they might be right in some of those aspects. But they are the people who knew what Britain was like before it became controlled by unelected bureaucrats from another country in an agreement that began as the Common Market emphasizing trade but increasingly was taking political control away from its individual members and setting all their rules and regulations and taking their money to finance their own programs. Most millenials and immigrants to Britain had only lived under EU control and are now scared of how the country will change but for older Britons its taking control of their country back again. Basically the only areas with support for Remain were Northern Ireland, Scotland and metro London. Everywhere else voted leave including my own borough of Southend on Sea. To empathize with their situation would you want all our political and cultural and trade decisions decided by unelected bureaucrats from the United States?

Its a bold step and I believe it will lead to the unraveling of the EU which will put a halt to the aspirations of Scotland to pursue independence again in another referendum by removing their option.

 

[westwoody]

Once David Cameron's successor has been selected, a new vote might happen.

The distribution of the vote says a lot about the disconnect in the UK between a perceived urban elite and everyone else. Many rural poor voted leave because they think anything is better than the status quo.
The referendum to remove London from the UK is insulting to people from smaller towns. Many despise Londoners the way Canadians all loathe Torontonians.
Scotland wants a separation referendum of their own. They feel their unique society will be better protected in the EU than in UK.

Calling the leave voters xenophobic is a gross oversimplification. Britain used to a fairly homogenous society. It has been turned into a lumpy melting pot. I was in Westminster and found it more immigrant than Brit. Immigration is one thing, this was more like inundation.