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Brexit |OT| UK Referendum on EU Membership - 23 June 2016

Did you vote for the side that is going to win?


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KingBroly

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It's getting there!

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holy fuck. It was like 1.41 an hour ago
 
I mean, it does have parallels to this vote. Hyper nationalists win the day despite the outcome.

Voting for a concept is different than voting for a person who is hated by 60-70% of voters. Not to mention demographics, electoral college, fundraising, and god knows what else. It is a worthless comparison that has no meaning.
 

kavanf1

Member
Could Scotland become independent and then rejoin the EU?

Theoretically yes but for a new member to join they need to be ratified by all existing members and there are several members with axes to grind (I seem to recall Spain significantly so) who would be seeking major concessions before authorising membership. In other words, Scotland could gain independence and seek to rejoin, as long as we're willing to lube up and take a good hard economic pounding as the price for joining.
 

Abraxas

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Laura Kuenssberg
‏@bbclaurak
One source tells me Gove and Boris negotiating the terms of Cameron's departure - only one source
 

blastprocessor

The Amiga Brotherhood
The unwashed masses literally don't know what's good for them a lot of the time, what is the country's best interest and how it should behave.

Yes, too much direct democracy can be bad. As shown by this very thread.

You've had too much too drink or rather emotional right now.

52% of UK unwashed confirmed. I'll take a wash later.
 

Mimosa97

Member
Was there any other time when the older generation kept voting to burn it all down, or is it just the baby boomers?

Nah because baby boomers are the first generation with such life expectancy, level of education and who got to enjoy their civil rights to the fullest (for both men and women) since birth.

Isn't voting to leave EU the antithesis of the bolded? Granted, they're still fucking over generations regardless.

Nah they voted leave because they want their country to go back to how it was.
 

Lagamorph

Member
Scotland is far from having voted 'overwhelmingly' to stay in the EU. I can't see any justification for calling another referendum on their independence.
 

Spaghetti

Member
Those doing their whole "Rule Britannia" "Make our country great again!" "No more EU holding us back!" bit are in for a very rude awakening when this sets in.
 

daniels

Member
It's the same bullshit in every country. Old people fucking the next generations over. Taking decisions that WE will have to live with for decades while they only have a few years left on this earth.

Fuck man democracy is the best political system we have but shit like this is infuriating. Old people fucking scared of every bit of change who want shit to always remain the same and can't fucking understand that the world is moving fast and you have to adapt or die.

You will also make political decision that your future children have to live with.
Its really disgusting to me that some now insult old people for using their democratic right they are much longer here, have seen much more and have had much more experience.
In the past old people were a seen as a treasure drove of knowledge and experience today they get insults if they dont vote "right".
 

Madness

Member
So this is going to put stress on the EU now to actually strengthen membership requirements; they won't want to go through this again...

More than likely is the start of the end of the EU. The UK was going to be the strongest European economy in 15 years. Coupled with what has happened in Greece and the rising far right parties elsewhere and border walls everywhere, there is real danger the EU won't survive this.

They expanded too fast and incorporated too many vastly different countries. If anything, there is no way they will admit Turkey now.
 
Yup. The economy is crashing hard over there. Pretty fucking hard. And the thing is, it's at an insane pace. People don't have time to react to safeguard their money because it literally happened overnight.

This sucks. Alot. It sucks a fucking lot. And people are going to lose their jobs all around the country(And outside of the country as well.)

It sucks.
It's more likely UK will gain jobs while EU countries lose jobs because a lower GBP is great for exports.
 
Now I know this is a silly question, but did the referendum contain wording that excludes further votes in the next two years to call this off? Like maybe when the people wake up tomorrow and realize what they have done?
 

BlueTsunami

there is joy in sucking dick
Voting for a concept is different than voting for a person who is hated by 60-70% of voters. Not to mention demographics, electoral college, fundraising, and god knows what else. It is a worthless comparison that has no meaning.

If anything maybe this well get fence sitters to get out and vote in November despite the difference in margins. This shit is the outcome of apathy from young voters.
 

phisheep

NeoGAF's Chief Barrister
I still can't believe we did it, in the face of all the threats from Juncker et al, our own Chancellors punishment budget, WW3 omens. So proud of the people on these islands right now. Rule Britannia!

Morning Quiche.

I think you are now in charge of one of the legendary GAF megathreads!

Not really awake enough to have this sink in yet, but probably I should have put my stock order in on Wednesday.
 

Bishman

Member
It's the same bullshit in every country. Old people fucking the next generations over. Taking decisions that WE will have to live with for decades while they only have a few years left on this earth.

Fuck man democracy is the best political system we have but shit like this is infuriating. Old people fucking scared of every bit of change who want shit to always remain the same and can't fucking understand that the world is moving fast and you have to adapt or die.

This is sad.
 
I have no idea what this means can anyone break it down for me?

UK decided to leave EU against common reason, due to biggotry and a laughable sense of superiority.

EU project is fatally wounded without one of their stronger members in the ranks, markets won't look EU as a firm project anymore. More exits could happen.
 

lemmykoopa

Junior Member
If I want to take advantage of cheap stock prices today and certain companies like Unilever, Shell etc trade in pounds and euros, is it advises able to buy the stocks In euros or pounds?
 
I love how people don't get the irony of my Braveheart pic. I do agree with the UK leaving the EU, as I hate the EU and what it has done to certain countries. Specifically, I think Merkel is on a power trip and carrying on the history of Germans controlling other nations.

However, the use of the Braveheart pic is hilarious to me because Scotland has been dragged into all this because of England. Maybe sad for some but the irony in it was just too good to pass up.

On another note, that was the most epic FREEEEEEEDOOOOOOOM scream I could think of.
 
You will also make political decision that your future children have to live with.
Its really disgusting to me that some now insult old people for using their democratic right they are much longer here, have seen much more and have had much more experience.
In the past old people were a seen as a treasure drove of knowledge and experience today they get insults if they dont vote "right".
Seems like this generation of old people is worse than previous ones.
 

Yamauchi

Banned
How people can celebrate and wake up happy with the economy tanking is fucking beyond me.
Market gyrations are not the same thing as the 'economy tanking.'

Contrary to popular belief, by the way, a devalued currency has both negative and positive domestic economic effects.
 

Cromwell

Banned
Absolute fucking insanity with the GDP right now. When I was in London in '09 it was about 1.60 USD for 1 GDP. Now it's 1 USD for 1.34 GDP.
 

Abraxas

Member
NI referendum?

— Marc Mallett (@MarcMallett_UTV)
June 24, 2016
BREAKING: Sinn Fein says "British government has forfeited any mandate to represent economic or political interests of people in N Ireland"
 
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