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The UK votes to leave the European Union
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"They fucked up, take me with you"
Camp Freddie
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I think this was a part of the problem. A lot of (most?) small businesses don't deal with the EU, they just service their local area. Businesses that trade with Europe tend to base themselves in cities or near transport hubs, (one reason why cities voted to remain).
This meant 'Leave' were constantly wheeling out local business owners in small towns who could claim that the EU regulations were ruining their business.
Normally, I'd be sure that the UK is just as able to fuck things up with red tape as any Eurocrat, but I have a worry that BoJo and his right-ring Tory neolibs will do a full baby and bathwater removal of vast swathes of regulation in the name of cutting "red tape".
Blackthorn
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This is fun, actual nazis! And a pun headline too! Oh, how very British.
https://twitter.com/kojorte/status/746369847966203904
https://twitter.com/kojorte/status/746369847966203904
@BBCPeterHunt
The first time that the Queen will be seen in public, after the EU referendum, will be on Monday in Northern Ireland.
Before that she'll be in Northern Ireland. I guess she doesn't want to be known as the last queen of the UK.
ClosingADoor
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Young people, who mostly have little money, do certainly not have more ability to emigrate. And certainly not when leaving the union that makes it possible to easily work in another country.
Majukun
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not every young man can have a great education..someone is bound to be less of a special snowflake than others,especially when you are talking about millions of them
Omega Kirby
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Putin : "No one wants to feed weak economies."
Guerrillas in the Mist
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If you have a clearly defined trade, maybe. I work in project support at a local authority. Please tell me how easy it will be to move/work abroad now, if I wanted to?
I've considered saving for a couple years and doing a Masters at somewhere like Maastrict, but that plan's probably a pipe dream now. (Well, a 11,000 extra one in any case)
Remember the bit with the street market and the REPORT ALL IMMIGRANTS sign
I'm not surprised to see neo-nazis amongst those that supported this
We're not talking about fucking holidays, mate. He will be living away from home on a permanent contract. He can't just hop home whenever he likes. It'll a few days of borrowed time throughout the year. He has been FORCED into being in this situation. The alternative is to quit his job to keep his freedom, which he obviously doesn't want to do.
ThoughtsOfSpeaking
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The thing about all of this, is I had already become increasingly disillusioned with this country before all this. Being the Son of second generation West Indian immigrants, all I've seen over the last decade and a half that almost every reason my parents and grandparents came to this country being set alight due to labour incompetence and conservative greed.
I have very little in the way of savings, no plan and nowhere else in the world that I have strong enough links to make an easy exit.
But I swear as all is holy, I'm gone. I've had enough with this country and its rulership. I have been given no reason to feel proud or better off as a British citizen and my only reason to stay one has been fear of the unknown and interia.
But I will be fucking damned if I'm going to struggle in this country for the next 40 years for no fucking real reason. If life is going to be made this hard for me here, I may as well move overseas and struggle while at least growning as a person from new people and experiences.
Fuck England. I'm out.
I have very little in the way of savings, no plan and nowhere else in the world that I have strong enough links to make an easy exit.
But I swear as all is holy, I'm gone. I've had enough with this country and its rulership. I have been given no reason to feel proud or better off as a British citizen and my only reason to stay one has been fear of the unknown and interia.
But I will be fucking damned if I'm going to struggle in this country for the next 40 years for no fucking real reason. If life is going to be made this hard for me here, I may as well move overseas and struggle while at least growning as a person from new people and experiences.
Fuck England. I'm out.
Nope I am screwed. I have a low paying job, having been out of work for 8yrs due to mental illness issues. Still not over them. If I lose my job ( I think I will) I won't be getting a new one.
ClosingADoor
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Can you imagine the storm that would cause now. It will be ugly.
Shake Appeal
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-Plasma Reus-
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EU is rushing to trigger article 50. If parliament wants to stop it from being legally binding, they need to act soon.
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
DrForester
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Is there any realistic chance at all of that happening?
ClosingADoor
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EU can't trigger it. The UK has to.
SnowFlakeCake
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What industry is it that people move from UK to other parts of EU for work? I'm in healthcare and have seen the opposite, big time but can't say I've seen a doctor says they're off to work in Spain for a better life or some shit. A few stockbrokers I know are in Hong Kong which has fuck all to do with EU but yeah, what jobs are people working in other parts of EU that they would not get paid better for here in the UK?
Where are you getting this information from ? All i have read from BBC is that there are currently 2 camps one that wants to rush one that wants to take it slow they are not united on the matter.
Carl2291
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So this isn't taken out of context.
https://************/news/348201-putin-brexit-weak-economies/
Edit - different source
http://www.b92.net/eng/news/world.php?yyyy=2016&mm=06&dd=24&nav_id=98425
Seems to me the more time there is to allow this to sink in will probably be for the best. There's going to be economic uncertainty regardless.
Either people start warming to the idea, maybe see a light at the end of the tunnel, or it looks much worse and folks decide leaving was a bad idea. 4 months may not be long enough, but it's better than nothing.
Cameron seems to have left open the slightest chance that people in the UK end up wanting to stay before the process is officially begun.
How can they do that? I know theyre trying to make the vote itself count as an official statement, but beyond that what options do they have?
Yup, EU is pissed and wants us gone now and not later.
Also, I unfortunately doubt Cameron will reverse the decision. It's a democracy and sadly Leave had won. If he was to reverse it, then lord knows the unrest which will arise because of it.
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GunslingerVit
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Great Scot!
It's not about being pissed. It's about making the period of uncertainty last as short as possible.
Nope, none at all. The conservatives don't dare and Cobyn has the spine of a jellyfish. The SNIP and Lib-demos will vote against it, but unless a party comes out boldly in favour of staying the EU and wins a mandate at the general election it's a done deal.
RedSparrows
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I am so fucking angry.
I was sad before. Now I am just angry.
I was sad before. Now I am just angry.
Joke post right? I know the EU has always hated democracy when it doesn't go the way they want, but I'd like to think that we here in Britain can accept the will of the people.
BreezyLimbo
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Hows the Pound Sterling doing right now? Has it recovered?
Greens suggested earlier that a MP vote can be a possibility. But who knows.
Not really
ThoughtsOfSpeaking
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The labour and conservative government have done alot to both devalue a good education and create significant financial barriers to entry.
More Fun To Compute
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It's about shutting the door to voters in other countries who find leaving appealing by making an example of the UK in the same way they did a number on Greece with it's debt.
Wouldn't this literally lead to riots in the streets? 52% did vote to leave.
no, i mean that as part of any new trade agreements the UK will likely have to abide by EU product regulations anyway. even if a business wants to sell strictly local products their government will be forced to apply those rules as long as they want to trade with the EU.
and yes, that can be onerous for small businesses but what people are bad at realizing is that it's far better for the economy as a whole to have free trade. the fact that it's benefiting the wealthy elites disproportionately is a problem created by the UK government, not the EU.
2017: Zero points for Great Britain.
2018: Zero points for Little Britain.
2019: Zero points for Britain.
2020: Zero points for England.
bobs...onGaf
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I can only hope this is a lifeline or at least prompts a conversation around the whole thing - I stand by the fact I think a lot of people voted with misinformation.
A confirmation vote with more information around the reprocessions would be interesting
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Cameron can save the country and Europe if he puts it to parliamentary vote.
ClosingADoor
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