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The UK votes to leave the European Union

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danowat

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This thread is moving WAAAYYY to fast for me to keep up with, so I am going to have to dip out while I try and get my head around this decision.
 
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BigDes

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PJV3 said:
Boris Johnson the man who lied about the EU for fun is going to be PM and head negotiations for 2 years.

That is when shit will really fall apart, i hope to god the tories don't make him PM, it's time to take this seriously.
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Likely not too much of a change, if we want to trade with the EU we will have to agree with their terms, one of which will mean free movement stays.
 
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EloKa

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I feel really bad everyone who voted for remaining. People decided to vote in favour of hate and fear instead of freedom.

I always took the UK for granted but now we can watch it crumble into pieces. People from England wanted sovereignty and now they gave it to Scotland and Ireland
 
Carl2291

Carl2291

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Jesus Christ, those Remain voters outside Boris' house.

Get over it. You lost. The majority disagree with you on Europe. Grow up.
 
PJV3

PJV3

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Arksy said:
Ok, let's do this. Let's take this seriously. Who would you nominate if you had the choice?

I personally would prefer Daniel Hannan, but there is no way that will happen.
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David Davis. I don't like him, but he takes things seriously. I'm a socialist so I'm not gonna be a fan of many tories, this is about not electing a complete cunty clown.
 
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twobear

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As someone in the academic system, I wonder what's going to happen to higher education in the UK. I wonder if Oxbridge will push for their own privatisation now that they're likely to have lower numbers of students and no funding from the EU.
 
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AusRoachman

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Have not really followed the vote closely until now , but what are the reasons for voting leave ? Is it purely a immigrants stealing our jobs fear ?

I just don't understand how any normal person would see losing billions off the stock exchange , companies bailing with job losses , eu protections being lost , trade problems , losing pensions etc would seem like a good idea .

As I've listed off lots of reasons to vote remain , what where the main reasons for voting stay?

As I said I have not followed it that closely , but the only argument I have seen for leaving is because 'immigrants,
 
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Nyx

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From the Dutch version of ''The Onion'' (news parody), through google translate:

Following the outcome of the Brexit referendum Britain has received warm congratulations from Uganda, Sierra Leone, Egypt, South Africa, Ghana, Tuvalu, the United States, Nigeria, Belize, Swaziland, Saint Kitts, Kenya, India, Zimbabwe , Malaysia, Jamaica, Cameroon, Mauritius, Fiji and part of Somalia.

The former British colonies call the independence of the United Kingdom a large victory. Also the Malawians are proud of their British brother nation. "We know exactly how it is to groan under the yoke of a European ruler. It is touching to see that the British are there now to have emerged. They have fought hard ", said President Mutharika. Now Britain is detached from Europe, the Brits may finally restore their own culture and traditions. "Europe Britons can no more impose," said the 16-year-old Queensy from former British Guiana. "In the free UK they will soon finally be able to enter their own currency and left driving without European involvement." President Mutharika thinks that the British people to go a long way, "European oppression now shows once deep scars. It will take a while before no longer spoken European language in Britain. "
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http://speld.nl/2016/06/24/voormalige-kolonien-feliciteren-britten-onafhankelijkheid/
 
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Omni

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As an outsider... this seems crazy to me. Firstly the vote (no supermajority?). And secondly the amount of people who seem to have voted to leave in order to make the UK great again, without really thinking about the repercussions

Silly silly silly.
 
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Sijil

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Baybars said:
In a way all this chaos orginated from Daraa syria. If people did something to stop the massive influx of syrians running from barrel bombs from the assad regime, britian wouldnt be in this situation.

In the end, obama's policy of containment rather than solving the syrian crisis has led to america's closest ally leaving the union. The world is lucky barack obama was not the president of the united states during the 90s. Otherwise we would be having bosnian and kosovo refugees as well
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What is this? An article by Michael Weiss? "if we want to stop Brexit (ISIS) we must remove Assad".
 
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Heckler456

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MrS said:
Then the EU should expect high tariffs on the goods we export in kind
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Do you understand the concept of a voting bloc, and the implications of being outside that voting bloc? The EU needs the UK, but the UK needs the EU to a FAR greater degree, I can assure you that much.
 
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