EU Referendum: The result and aftermath...

[Railops]

We import far more than we export already. We recently experienced the greatest recession since the 1930s. The EU did nothing to solve that. Our economy is overly reliant on financial services (much to the consternation of the EU and the bank levy intended to hit London harder than other markets).

Time to readjust!

Have some faith in this country and its ability to determine its own destiny, free from interference. We have managed that for millennia. The EU has been around for a few decades and is rapidly imploding.

The Eurosceptic countries have been waiting for this result and the end of the EU superstate is in sight.
Watching oily Keith Vaz cry has made my day.
Mandelson saying they had a great campaign !

 

[Kite159]

We import far more than we export already. We recently experienced the greatest recession since the 1930s. The EU did nothing to solve that. Our economy is overly reliant on financial services (much to the consternation of the EU and the bank levy intended to hit London harder than other markets).

Time to readjust!

Have some faith in this country and its ability to determine its own destiny, free from interference. We have managed that for millennia. The EU has been around for a few decades and is rapidly imploding.

Apart from the likes of Murdoch.

Give it some years and the UK will be back on its feet, a bit-part player on the outside having to still deal with Europe but with no control over it.

In the meantime its going to be rough, some businesses will relocate, Tim Martin will be happy that Uncle Boris has got rid of some employee rights (such as that pesky minimum wage).

 

[EM2]

https://mobile.twitter.com/GMB/status/746218028195426305

Farage tells Good Morning Britain 'it was a 'mistake' for Leave to claim there'd be £350M a week for NHS'.

 

[miami]

Heard Farage on Today, calling for a new prime mknister but no need for an election.

Yeay democracy!

 

[yorksrob]

Jeremy Corbyn just tackled this one, because he said that it's the government's fault that Leave won in the north. I agree with him.

Personally, I thought that Jeremy Corbyn's views about the need to correct the problems of the common market resonated most with me from the remain side.

 

[Railops]

https://mobile.twitter.com/GMB/status/746218028195426305

Farage tells Good Morning Britain 'it was a 'mistake' for Leave to claim there'd be £350M a week for NHS'.

And he's right it was a Vote Leave advert which he wasn't part of, it was nothing to do with him, he criticised it at the time.
You can have a go at him for many things but this isn't one of them.

 

[EM2]

Sterling at its lowest since 1985.
FTSE expected to open 19% down.
Well done.

 

[Kite159]

https://mobile.twitter.com/GMB/status/746218028195426305

Farage tells Good Morning Britain 'it was a 'mistake' for Leave to claim there'd be £350M a week for NHS'.

Where in fact, once the hard right Tories get in, the NHS will be sold off to the highest bidder.

American style pay as you go, here we come

 

[Bromley boy]

The Eurosceptic countries have been waiting for this result and the end of the EU superstate is in sight.
Watching oily Keith Vaz cry has made my day.
Mandelson saying they had a great campaign !

Yep!

Watching the BBC and guardian crawling up their own a**es and wheeling out the usual suspects for damage mitigation is hilarious.

Democracy suddenly doesn't seem such a good idea now that the music stopped.

 

[Railops]

Cameron will resign today I reckon.

 

[Bromley boy]

Cameron will resign today I reckon.

The cherry on the cake if so and long overdue.

 

[Groningen]

Trends in the Netherlands on Twitter:
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I am so glad that you decided to leave. No UK that will blackmail the rest of the EU.

 

[dgl]

Yep!





Watching the BBC and guardian crawling up their own a**es and wheeling out the usual suspects for damage mitigation is hilarious.





Democracy suddenly doesn't seem such a good idea now that the music stopped.

Is it democracy when a few extra people get to decide for everyone. Is a few % really a majority?, esp. As a whole part of the UK voted to remain?

 

[Senex]

How about 50% of the total eligible voters going for change in order to enact changes?

Just like what the government wanted to do with the unions?

A bit of consistency wouldn't hurt.

It would have been a brilliant idea.

The notion of making a choice on a matter as important as this without setting any sort of threshhold has always seemed daft to me. Whichever way it had gone, a decision by just a few percentage points and with a large number of abstainers doesn't carry that much conviction.
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Is it democracy when a few extra people get to decide for everyone. Is a few % really a majority?, esp. As a whole part of the UK voted to remain?

How can a timetable now be produced that would allow Scotland to decide if it wants to be independent and stay in the EU before it is swept out of it along with the rest of the so-called United Kingdom and so would need to re-apply from scratch?

And what will now happen in the Six Counties / Northern Ireland which also voted to stay in?

 

[Domh245]

We might be about to see Cameron resign, as if things couldn't get insane enough

 

[Bromley boy]

Apart from the likes of Murdoch.

Give it some years and the UK will be back on its feet, a bit-part player on the outside having to still deal with Europe but with no control over it.

In the meantime its going to be rough, some businesses will relocate, Tim Martin will be happy that Uncle Boris has got rid of some employee rights (such as that pesky minimum wage).

I can't stand Murdoch either.

I'd rather be a 2 bit player (although we won't be) than part of a failed project to create an undemocratic superstate no one wants, which is falling apart at the seams.

I'd rather the government i elected determined my employment rights, rather than someone else. What happens when I no longer agree with what that "someone else" decrees?

 

[Railops]

Is it democracy when a few extra people get to decide for everyone. Is a few % really a majority?, esp. As a whole part of the UK voted to remain?

What are you talking about, do you know what a first past the post referendum is ?

 

[Domh245]

We might be about to see Cameron resign, as if things couldn't get insane enough

So, he will continue in his role (and with the same cabinet) for 3 months, and then they'll plan to have a new leader in place by the conservative party conference. Also says that he won't trigger article 50 until new leader is in place

 

[dgl]

Looks like David Cameron will be replaced by the conservative party conference I.e. By October.

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[Jonny]

We might be about to see Cameron resign, as if things couldn't get insane enough

Live on BBC, he said that "there should be a new Prime Minister in place by the time of the Conservative Party Conference..." but stopped short of an immediate resignation.

 

[Railops]

Cameron waffling on about gay marriage and multiculturalism for some reason before he had a little cry and departed stage left.

 

[Jonny]

Meanwhile in other news, the markets have taken a dive but, on the plus side, it's all factored in now.

 

[cjp]

Trends in the Netherlands on Twitter:
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#EURefResults
Britain

I am so glad that you decided to leave. No UK that will blackmail the rest of the EU.

I too am glad we decided to leave.

If we are where we are as a result of blackmailing the rest of the EU it clearly did not work too well for us.

Let us hope we can work in harmony with our neighbours so that we all gain from the change.

 

[90sWereBetter]

Cameron waffling on about gay marriage and multiculturalism for some reason before he had a little cry and departed stage left.

Written like someone who can't stand the fact Britain is a modern, liberal country. Nice person you are.

All in all, surely it's Boris's campaign to lose now. Osborne's leadership hopes are finished, May backed Remain so the likelihood of her becoming leader has decreased drastically, and no-one likes Gove. 'tis gonna be interesting for sure.

 

[Groningen]

News on dutch radio is that Cameron has stepped down. Whether true or false i do not know.

 

[miami]

Oh good, so the Prime Minister is leaving, and we're leaving an undemocratic system where the executive is chosen by the legislative.

I'm looking forward to my chance to vote for the new prime minister before September. When will the ballot papers be sent out?

 

[Groningen]

OK; at their partyconference in October 2016.

 

[miami]

Written like someone who can't stand the fact Britain is a modern, liberal country. Nice person you are.

All in all, surely it's Boris's campaign to lose now. Osborne's leadership hopes are finished, May backed Remain so the likelihood of her becoming leader has decreased drastically, and no-one likes Gove. 'tis gonna be interesting for sure.

May backed remain but not too loudly. Sadly I see her staying in.

I see Graham Brady being promoted to government, possibly Education, which will be an interesting turnout - he's a big fan of grammar schools.

 

[Steveman]

Written like someone who can't stand the fact Britain is a modern, liberal country. Nice person you are.

Anybody is entitled to have a view about such things, just because you have a different view is irrelevant. Nice person you are

 

[Antman]

There is, and I believe you have been informed of this previously.

http://www.railforums.co.uk/profile.php?do=ignorelist

Thank you, I obviously forgot