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[darkwing]

Lead to 400k
GBP about to touch a 50-year low.

I think it's going to get lower albeit temporarily

 

[Hazzuh]

Trump comparisons are completely valid. You have a bunch of 1 foot in the grave types longing for the good old days of the British Empire when England kept its foot on the throat of all those pesky brown people.

You have polls showing large numbers of support for leave come from people who did not even finish school etc.,

Leave Campaign is 100% the typical Racist Republican style campaign of the US

All of you americans need to stop pretending you understand British politics. Every american in here is just projecting domestic american politics on to the UK.

 

[ZombieFred]

GBP be like...

No sorrow for sorros

 

[VendettaRed07]

If the UK economy tanks, Hillary might try and connect Trump with Brexit to show how bad it would be.

Hopefully we use it to highlight why all the anti-Free Trade arguments we have been hearing are complete nonsense

 

[PowderedToast]

So 2016 is the year nationalism took over the UK.

Its been here for a while. this is just proof.

 

[KingBroly]

Nope. I'll be importing it from the states. Hence my post

Atlus has region-locked before and they can do it again!

 

[MassiveNights]

Edinburgh
Leave: 64,498
Remain: 187,796

Total: 252,481
Turnout: ??

Turnout was 73%

 

[skypunch]

Scotland!

It's like a game of Splatoon.

 

[Fergie]

A lot of votes apparently weren't based in logic.

As with Wales.

Weirdly it's fascinating to see and horrific.

 

[Psychotext]

Sorry Scotland. I did my part, even though the rest of Wales didn't.

 

[Madness]

Kind of shocked to be honest. Thought it was a certainty the UK would stay in the EU. I wonder what the biggest factor was for pushing people away?

Nationalism touches at the very heart of human tribalism especially for a former superpower that controlled the world. They tapped into that sentiment of Brits feeling demoralized, trampled on by a 'foreign' other.

 

[CharmingCharlie]

I'm curious, can you explain why you voted Leave?

I voted to leave because I believe it is inevitable that the UK will leave the EU. The UK should never have joined the EU we are a completely different mindset to our European counterparts. There would have come a crunch point in the future when the UK would have had to commit fully to being in the EU (euro and all that crap) or GTFO.

My reason for voting to leave now rather than later is that I believe leaving now is the UK's best chance to survive outside a United States of Europe. It is going to fucking hurt bad now, there is going to be a lot of pain now. But it will be nothing compared to the pain we would suffer if we stayed in for another 15-20 years and then left.

Plus there is a nice lil bonus that it was a big "fuck you" to Cameron. But that didn't factor into my decision it is just a nice lil perk.

 

[helloresolven]

How do we, the USA, feel about this? Does it even effect us in any way?

Well, USA and UK are like best buddies... so it kinda sucks that our best friend is leaving the EU, which means we lose our best way of getting favorable negotiations with the EU, which is a massive economic and geopolitical bloc.

 

[Audioboxer]

Scotland!

Get fucking in there Edinburgh.

Well done Scotland.

 

[LJ11]

6 month low and a 6 month high in a day, LOL.

 

[Kimawolf]

Well maybe now Great Britain can become a U.S. colony, we'll take you big bros.

 

[QuicheFontaine]

Will the UK start building up their military in opposition to Europe now?

This is silly. You've heard of NATO, right?

 

[The Albatross]

Kind of shocked to be honest. Thought it was a certainty the UK would stay in the EU. I wonder what the biggest factor was for pushing people away?

Same. FIgured it'd be kind of close but would be like the Scottish referendum a year or two ago, a lot of bluster but then a fairly safe "Nah let's chill" vote.

 

[Alienous]

Lead to 400k
GBP about to touch a 50-year low.

And we've done this to ourselves.

 

[Kusagari]

The remain campaign were pretty confident a year ago. Look at them today. Never discount the power of racial politics

The Republicans ran off racial politics in 08 and 12. There's not enough white men in America to make up the difference any more.

 

[thenameDS]

ITV say there's a 80% probability that we will leave.

 

[Shiggy]

Thank you!!! The panic here is ridiculous.

Singapore, Norway Switzerland and many other countries are not in the EU and have some of the best living standards.

Norway and Switzerland adhere to the principles of free movement and other EU regulations to gain access to the EU single market though.

 

[Interceptor]

Kind of shocked to be honest. Thought it was a certainty the UK would stay in the EU. I wonder what the biggest factor was for pushing people away?

Common sense.

 

[tomtom94]

Kind of shocked to be honest. Thought it was a certainty the UK would stay in the EU. I wonder what the biggest factor was for pushing people away?

Cameron and Osborne. It's that simple.

 

[plagiarize]

Presuming this doesn't turn around. Good bye to Scotland. Hello to PM Boris Johnson.

Hello to an even more conservative Britain.

Eurgh.

 

[eyeball_kid]

One thing I've been a bit confused about – could Wales or Ireland leave while the rest of Britain remains? Or is it a winner-take-all situation?

 

[rodvik]

Kind of shocked to be honest. Thought it was a certainty the UK would stay in the EU. I wonder what the biggest factor was for pushing people away?

I say this as a Remain guy but judging by my family it was simple patriotism. They want their country back.

Shrug, it may not be a logical motivation but is not a racist one either. Just simple love of country.

 

[Alcander]

I still am flabbergasted that this only requires a simple majority. Insane.

 

[Übermatik]

Edinburgh absolutely banging it out with 75% for Remain and a 73% turnout.

Scotland!

Edinburgh
Leave: 64,498
Remain: 187,796

Total: 252,481
Turnout: ??

Smashed it. Happy with this, at least. Proud of Edinburgh.

 

[Yoda]

Now people are blaming the weather... lol

 

[Rich!]

On the plus side, we won't have the massive USK ratings ruining our game artworks now, right?!

 

[kneePat]

Congrats UK, you will wake up tomorrow at least 7% poorer. And that's just the first night.

edit: RIP ur monies.

 

[SuperSah]

Edinburgh is Scotland's last big gun tbh

And leave is a good 4% ahead.

 

[Scottish Sin]

Edinburgh
Leave: 64,498
Remain: 187,796

Total: 252,481
Turnout: ??

Thank you Edinburgh. Happy to see my neck of the woods not let the side down.

 

[freeofgreed]

Yeah no. It's not close. Leave will win - they're too far ahead now and remain hasn't got the pull in the remaining areas. Labour have already called it. Sorry.

eh have you seen the delta? it's going for Leave

What source are you guys using?

I'm using this

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...nweLEayc3tRgtBxIDCotABtUIX0/htmlview?sle=true

is it not accurate?

 

[jerry113]

UK-GAF please don't fuck up Game of Thrones' budget

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/06/21/the-brexit-could-be-bad-news-for-game-of-thrones/

 

[Gandalf]

Double Post!

 

[jufonuk]

If this turns out 50/50 this will crazy

 

[chromatic9]

This is a fuckin' rollercoaster right now

How does he do it in every photo.

Today out of the polling station

 

[sikkinixx]

Too late for London to secede and become a city state?

 

[Tak3n]

The Tories are going to fuck Wales over so badly if we leave

 

[pigeon]

Well, USA and UK are like best buddies... so it kinda sucks that our best friend is leaving the EU, which means we lose our best way of getting favorable negotiations with the EU, which is a massive economic and geopolitical bloc.

Our best way to get favorable terms with the EU is by being the United States of America.

Britain didn't do shit for us in terms of getting favorable terms with the EU.

 

[>-Baron-Spamedi-<]

See, there's a slight problem with telling people in perpetual economic insecurity that they'll face perpetual economic insecurity by voting for Brexit.

"Hey. You poor people in your run down working class towns, with your vanishing industries and living hand-to-mouth whilst under the threat of higher rates of job insecurity.
Yes, you.
Don't vote leave because it might cause financial insecurity which could badly damage the price of your stocks and shares."

I simply cant understand how this wasn't an appealing message.

 

[Carl2291]

Leave up over 500k now?

 

[Quonny]

brb gonna preorder a bunch of shit in gbp

 

[zpiders]

I love democracy

 

[CharminUltra]

Here in the US when we're unhappy about something we move to Canada.

What's the UK's version of Canada?

 

[User1608]

Feel bad for the people who will be badly impacted and voted to stay.

 

[Audioboxer]

Edinburgh is Scotland's last big gun tbh

And leave is a good 4% ahead.

Sorry, we tried. We aren't that big of a country

 

[Madness]

What source are you guys using?

I'm using this

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...nweLEayc3tRgtBxIDCotABtUIX0/htmlview?sle=true

is it not accurate?

The Leave lead is now at 500k+ and growing. It'll narrow of course but the votes are just not there for Remain.