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The UK votes to leave the European Union
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This vote could result in people being killed if Ireland flares up again
lol, What is the EU?
So a proverbial shoot for ask questions later. Great job.
lol, What is the EU?
at least they're willing to learn
Phantast2k
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lol, What is the EU?
I wonder how many morons googled that after voting.
Maybe if they didn't believe in what they were voting for they shouldn't have voted.
Actually, the majority voted for it.
Politicians were strongly pushing people to "go out and register/vote", and this was hugely successful....
But if you've ever watched a UK quiz show, you'll realise that a surprisingly large percentage of the population are totally ignorant of politics, and can't even name the prime-minister/chancellor.
So, having a high turnout may be good for people with the simplest/catchiest message, rather than good for democracy.
TheRealTalker
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usually hate these comments since anyone can do it but this was pretty spot on
Also
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Captain Smirk
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Yeah would expect it to fluctuate at a lower level now for awhile, do think it has been rising over the last week or 2 however though because of the assumption that we would remain in the EU. Businesses moving away from the UK though is a worry
Relaxed Muscle
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Germany handling the recession of the whole eurozone on their own and to their own interest, sure had a lot to do with the rise of euroscepticism in the continent.
MrS
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You don't know the the half of it. We had people posting earlier who were saying anybody over 75 should have their right to vote taken taken away from them.
Audioboxer
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Amazing.
Not in Scotland.
No Scotland did not and we've been over this 3 or 4 pages back.
That's not happening, peacefully.
People have been killed and dying fighting for independence for hundreds of years and in recent history the past 100 years.
There has never been a better opportunity than now.
Portugal won't leave the EU. The parties don't want to and as much as we complain about some of the EU stuff we don't want to either.
I predict that nobody will leave the EU unless the UK gets a big economic boom. Which I'm sure the EU will try to avoid.
CheDominik
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Why should you have the right to vote if you don't know what you're voting for?
Note: I'm only being half serious.
Literally what I heard an old chap say on Radio 5 earlier when he was asked about the wishes of young people being overruled. He said they don't remember how good things were before 1975 and the EU came into being. Rose-tinted nostalgia.
yup, some businesses moving away from the UK is a given, if their reason was UK was in EU then they would have no reason to stay
Relaxed Muscle
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A miserable little pile of secrets.
lol.
Shake Appeal
Member
Stop dreaming about that and start hoping and praying this doesn't jeopardize the peace people too readily take for granted.
Are you actually from Ireland?
Central banks did intervene. I thought things recovered so fast. The Central banks are shoring things up.
"Central banks across the world offered the financial system fresh funds and intervened in currency markets, in an effort to reassure investors sent into panic by the U.K.s vote to leave the European Union.
After a majority of Britons voted to end their 43-year membership of the EU in a referendum, the Bank of England, the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan issued statements stressing the availability of liquidity to keep the banking system running. The BOJ led the Swiss National Bank and the Danish central bank in displaying readiness to sell their local currencies to cap gains caused by investors seeking haven from the turmoil."
How many weeks can they keep it up?
"Central banks across the world offered the financial system fresh funds and intervened in currency markets, in an effort to reassure investors sent into panic by the U.K.s vote to leave the European Union.
After a majority of Britons voted to end their 43-year membership of the EU in a referendum, the Bank of England, the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan issued statements stressing the availability of liquidity to keep the banking system running. The BOJ led the Swiss National Bank and the Danish central bank in displaying readiness to sell their local currencies to cap gains caused by investors seeking haven from the turmoil."
How many weeks can they keep it up?
Based on what I've been hearing at the financial company I consult for, there is no doubt it will diminish.
i live in london. we didn't vote for either, either.
Red Arremer
Member
Congratulations, UK:
Trump in one side of the sea, this on the other. Yikes.
It really does feel like a Monty Python sketch doesn't it?
A miserable pile of countries.
ISWThunder
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I can sorta understand how this can happen. Just imagine what the US populous would be doing right now if we were part of an economic deal that prevented certain border controls. The anti-immigration voters would be up in arms and fear-mongering would be even worse than it is now.
But it seems like the plan has been slapped together slogan first. The uncertainty alone is going to be a major burden on the UK economy and that's going to have a huge impact on their ability to negotiate new trade deals. So they've lost some economic leverage and want to negotiate their own terms on immigration and product control, leaving them even further behind the 8-ball when negotiation.
Are they banking on the EU to suffer greater harm and end up at the table with their tale between their legs? Or do they feel that the EU controls have strangled the economy and will directly offset the harm of the market uncertainty over the next two years?
Seems like such a messed up rush job on the UK's part. Matters like this should not be taken so lightly.
But it seems like the plan has been slapped together slogan first. The uncertainty alone is going to be a major burden on the UK economy and that's going to have a huge impact on their ability to negotiate new trade deals. So they've lost some economic leverage and want to negotiate their own terms on immigration and product control, leaving them even further behind the 8-ball when negotiation.
Are they banking on the EU to suffer greater harm and end up at the table with their tale between their legs? Or do they feel that the EU controls have strangled the economy and will directly offset the harm of the market uncertainty over the next two years?
Seems like such a messed up rush job on the UK's part. Matters like this should not be taken so lightly.
Led_Zeppelin
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Why stop with their right to vote and not just call for an extermination of anyone over 75 then? Or if ending their right to live is "too hardcore" for modern liberals why not just deport all of them to Greenland? Why suppress a right for someone (any right) should end there may as well suppress all the rights they have. Some people are secretly authoritarian and this seems to be the first time that they lost an election or something.
I don't live there no, but half of my family is Irish born.
Livingskeletons
If I pulled that off, would you die?
Wait we might get a reunited Ireland out of this? Holy Shit.
gutter_trash
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so David Cameron goes down in history as the dumbest British PM ever
So I saw this in the news. What are the chances of a second vote?
What have you been hearing?
Just to be clear, Lead is pro-people dying for Ireland.
The majority being most people outside of the big cities.
I class myself as a Londoner and there was an overwhelming majority that voted remain.
I honestly highly doubt this is a possibility.
Ovek
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I'm in exactly the same boat as you... all of this is a very sad thing indeed.
Essentially none, in my opinion
Article 50 hasn't been invoked yet, and 2 years of trade negotiations with the 27 member EU can be complicated, and won't UK again do trade negotiations with US/China etc. too?
Patrick Bateman
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Btw, is the Irish reunion-idea only coming from Sinn Fein?
Clearly you have no idea of the voting demographic in N.Ireland.
dave is ok
aztek is ok
Keep calm and carry on guys
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