Jezbollah
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That's several thousand jobs gone right there.
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The UK votes to leave the European Union
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That's several thousand jobs gone right there.
I guess 52% of the voting turnout just really wanted to make sure that the future generations were proper fucked
Gisela is one person, and that's one sound bite, she's not THE campaign. That's just her personal view, doesn't say that's what WILL happen.
They did like, sort of, lay the foundations for and trigger the entire global recession of 2007/8
Not what I'm saying at all, I never commented on that.
We're just discussing the words of a Liberal Democrat MP that are dripping with hypocrisy
Borders, language, and culture.
Mr. Giggles
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Just an outsider looking in here.
The vote was pretty close, so It's very reasonable to think that voters on the leave or stay issue were from both sides of the political a spectrum.
In the end the people's voice spoke really, and if anything this should at least be a wake up call that this will happen again and again (my money was on Greece doing it first but çe la vie.)
Yep. Anti-immigration is going to take more jobs from our country than immigration ever has.
Ah yes over 17 million people turned xenophobic, bad and racist figuratively over night, including places like Birmingham, please tell me more.
Immigration has issues and calling everyone bad names that sees this worked so perfectly wonderful for this vote right?
BreezyLimbo
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If you let the people decide their future without any control, half of them will run into the fire thinking its for the greater good. Which is what happened overnight in Britain.
Freeman
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Name calling is hardly going to help. If that is how you react when you see people with opinions that are different from yours... I don't know.
Wait seriously? When was his last post?
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Sounds like it's 1933 again.
PSA: when the future economic stability of your entire country is at stake - that is not the time for a petty protest vote
Jobs? That's a lot of deals that won't be happening in the city.
In other words: The dumb people ruin it for everyone, when the not-dumb people take all the economic benefits for themselves.
As much as there's validity to this, it comes across as really elitist and intolerant
'You're dumb if you don't have a degree'
Dublin and Frankfurt from what I've heard before the vote.
Gormless Noodle
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I'm a bit surprised - and scared - by some people I know wanting a Nexit referendum, for the Netherlands to go out of the EU now
This really isn't out of the question, no. Geert Wilders' PVV could make that happen if they win the election in 2017 or it could even happen without the need for that. There's obviously a lot of buts and ifs in there, I know. But it's really not outside the realm of possibilities.
I'd say the chance of the people voting for a leave in the Netherlands, would be fairly small. But then again I thought the same for the UK referendum, so I better not make any predictions on that again.
Led_Zeppelin
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There is no sort of, they did, specially Lehman and AIG and others institutions, the didn't sort of create the crisis, they create it and exploit it until they couldn't anymore and needed someone to pay the bills of the party, there is no discussion about that.
Veritigo_X
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I mean, are any of those descriptions incorrect? Call a spade a spade.
dealer-
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Fuck, hope dark10x is okay, I know he was really worried about a leave vote.
GHG
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Starwolf_UK
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Tim Farron was one of the 8 Lid Dem MPs that kept his job (so he must have done something right) and since you bought up the past he did vote against the tuition fees:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11948238
http://www.libdemvoice.org/tuition-fees-how-liberal-democrat-mps-voted-22346.html (overall 21 against, 27 for, 8 abstain = 100% blame after 4 years constantly having bought it up)
http://lordashcroftpolls.com/2016/06/how-the-united-kingdom-voted-and-why/
There is full data too to poke at yourself.
Though I expect the blog to be updated as:
I think the last one was meant to say leavers.
By dump you mean giving them to Canada?
Yautja_Warrior
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With so many voters unhappy with the EU (a lot more than expected) it highlights some big things that need addressing, so the government know they need to make some massive changes to make things right now, as they are going to have to step up, grow some balls and start running our county for the people, if they want their trust back again.
Despite what some people think, change is not always a bad thing either and while it might be a little while before things like the Pound stabilise again (and it will) Britain has been though far, far worse situations than leaving the EU, so it might take a while but I think some good things will come from this result eventually.
Despite what some people think, change is not always a bad thing either and while it might be a little while before things like the Pound stabilise again (and it will) Britain has been though far, far worse situations than leaving the EU, so it might take a while but I think some good things will come from this result eventually.
Fucking dumb shit.
Summer Haze
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AHA-Lambda
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eh, it's probably true
I've been sitting here reading this shit for hours, the hilarity of it all.
Gives more reason for commonwealth countries to leave the commonwealth, you guys have all gone mad but the difference is it wouldn't affect any commonwealth country one bit, this votes gonna fuck the UK right in the ass for a good while.
Hope you guys like it hard and rough because man your going to get a pounding, unless the EU is actual the beacon of democracy it makes out to be then you might be fine with a little hard work.
Gives more reason for commonwealth countries to leave the commonwealth, you guys have all gone mad but the difference is it wouldn't affect any commonwealth country one bit, this votes gonna fuck the UK right in the ass for a good while.
Hope you guys like it hard and rough because man your going to get a pounding, unless the EU is actual the beacon of democracy it makes out to be then you might be fine with a little hard work.
if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck
if people vote against their own self-interest and to the damaging detriment of others because they are afraid of the brown and Polish people, then they're fucking racist.
This is a dumpster fire that is built on the hate, prejudice and fear against the Other.
Shadow-Link
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Dark times ahead, stay strong UK GAF
Freeman
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I don't know, seems implausible to me.
MrS
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Wonder how that guy who threatened to beat you up if he ever met you in real life is doing. Dude was crazy.
I thought Remain was supposed to be the tolerant camp?
GitarooMan
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The lack of pragmatism in wide swathes of the voting population in the UK and in the US with Trump is astounding.
maladroit
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i'm sorry so many people voted without thinking about what you wanted
Kai Dracon
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It's that kind of stuff that leaves people's gut twisted up here in the US. There are so many people that approach voting with a nihilistic, flippant, or incoherent mindset; especially the younger ones who ironically do not agree with or like what the older generation votes for.
HazySaiyan
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Just going to leave this here.
Its a chart showing turnouts for MEP elections for the UK (and the rest of Europe by way of comparison).
When you have an average turnout of ~30% over a period of over 35 years it kinda shows how disconnected the British electorate has always been from Brussels. Most people wouldn't be able to name their regional MEP's, let alone know what they do.
This for me is fundamentally why Leave won. The public in this country have never been engaged with the idea of pan-European democracy, and instead have always viewed it as a meddlesome and unwanted overlord.
Its a chart showing turnouts for MEP elections for the UK (and the rest of Europe by way of comparison).
When you have an average turnout of ~30% over a period of over 35 years it kinda shows how disconnected the British electorate has always been from Brussels. Most people wouldn't be able to name their regional MEP's, let alone know what they do.
This for me is fundamentally why Leave won. The public in this country have never been engaged with the idea of pan-European democracy, and instead have always viewed it as a meddlesome and unwanted overlord.
A fair bit, if not most of it is ignorance as well. Not that that is great
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This was the equivalent of a coup by the government on itself.
This was the equivalent of a coup by the government on itself.
Red Arremer
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Of course it's just her personal view, but there's no denying the fact that this was used as part of the propaganda for the Leave campaign, and many people bought into it, too.
And now suddenly nobody even remotely hinted at the money going to the NHS.
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