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Brexit wins: Britain votes to exit the European Union

Yeah, it’s like getting polio! You’re terrible for a while, but then you get better! Or you die. And even if you get better, you can’t walk anymore. Probably why no one willingly gets polio…

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Brexit wins: Britain votes to exit the European Union

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Brexit wins: Britain votes to exit the European Union

Building a wall around England would have been so much easier.

Brexit wins: Britain votes to exit the European Union

On the plus side, there’s probably never been a better time for a filthy foreign barbarian such as myself to buy from amazon.co.uk

Brexit wins: Britain votes to exit the European Union

Not sure if you can get that from someone who can boil things down to being simply “free trade” or “anti-trade”.

Brexit wins: Britain votes to exit the European Union

Fucking. Hell. I…I’m dumfounded. I really thought this would go the other way.

Brexit wins: Britain votes to exit the European Union

Could have to do with familiarity breeding acceptance. If you live right next to an “Other” you’re more likely to strike up a friendship than someone whose notions about them come largely from xenophobic tabloid propaganda. (Anecdotally, some older people’s traditional or religious homophobia is defused after a family member comes out. Some disown them, but overall they’re more likely to support equal rights than people who think they don’t have any queer friends or family.)

Brexit wins: Britain votes to exit the European Union

Hurrah ! Next logical step : https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/0c/12/3c/0c123ca1332787cc956fc8ad5e119b6a.jpg Long live the 51st !

Brexit wins: Britain votes to exit the European Union

My German in-laws were crowing about it this morning - with the sort of barely coherent rants that are one step away from “It’s the Jews!”. Germany should be afraid - there is a huge amount of fucking insane fascist sentiment bubbling under the surface there.

Brexit wins: Britain votes to exit the European Union

Do a search for Ukip campaign posters. Too much of it seems to be on the level of “If you want a N***** for a neigbour, vote Labour”

Brexit wins: Britain votes to exit the European Union

“Equating” them would be wrong of course. There was more than one reason to vote for an exit, obviously; some better, some worse. But migration as a topic apparently tipped the scales, and thus took precedence over the legitimate concerns of the people who would have preferred to stay.

Brexit wins: Britain votes to exit the European Union

LOL - WHAT? Regret is eating that 5th taco - not for a vote you should have researched.

Brexit wins: Britain votes to exit the European Union

One said: “I personally voted leave believing these lies and I regret it more than anything, I feel genuinely robbed of my vote.” Oh goodness. “Robbed”? I’d love it if there was some polling on this, though. With nearly 1.3 million voting to leave it’s almost hard to believe that you couldn’t find 5 who regretted it. Such as the UK in it’s recent Brexit vote? I get issues of scale, but I don’t like people pretending that no one died in this campaign.

Brexit wins: Britain votes to exit the European Union

I am utterly baffled that a decision of this magnitude was decided by a simple majority. When the vote is split nearly 50-50 you’d think it might be a sign that this isn’t a good way to decide.

Brexit wins: Britain votes to exit the European Union

Now, now. To paraphrase Mill, it’s not that most Brexiters are reactionary fuckwits. It’s that most reactionary fuckwits are Brexiters.

Brexit wins: Britain votes to exit the European Union

I’m all in favor od Scottish independence. Right down to Hadrian’s wall, preferably. The border is much too far up north, but I live right near Wallsend (clue’s in the name), and I quite fancy being Scottish after today.

Brexit wins: Britain votes to exit the European Union

Yes, Scotland is economically viable as a nation. It’s contributed more than its population share in taxes to the UK budget for something like 29 out of the last 30 years. It has a strong export sector, and so on. In European terms it’s fairly similar in size and population to Denmark.

Brexit wins: Britain votes to exit the European Union

Whitehall, meanwhile, will be severely stretched by the mammoth exercise of withdrawal. The civil service has zero spare capacity after the cuts of the last five years: many departments have seen budget cuts of over a quarter since 2010, and total civil service employment has fallen by almost a fifth in the same period. Further spending reductions for the coming years were set out in last year’s spending review. The UK has no current capacity at all in trade negotiations, as this is a job that…

Brexit wins: Britain votes to exit the European Union

That is… wow.

Brexit wins: Britain votes to exit the European Union

And no one will say anything about you using it, just like the last time, this came up (but thanks for the act of solidarity).

Brexit wins: Britain votes to exit the European Union

That’s precisely what I was trying to suggest. He got in bed long enough with the real racists to get the job done and now seems unhappy about the outcome. I think it points us in the direction of how dangerous these sorts of political machinations can be, especially when you start employing racism to get something done. Again, not to godwin this thread (although I’ve apparently already derailed it), but the conservative parties that aligned with you know who also thought they could control him…

Brexit wins: Britain votes to exit the European Union

OMG… the review… [image]

Brexit wins: Britain votes to exit the European Union

It’s official. Britain has forfeited its right to make fun of American stupidity.

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