Brexit

He's very tactical. Of course he wouldn't be blatant about it in public/media. I just think he's not worth worrying about in this regard.

 

I don't really see any immediate threat from Vlad. Unless as you said we were living in the Baltics or Ukraine. In Britain, with what's going on, we can mange to fuck things up ourselves completely without any outside interventions

BTW Asmo - is there any 'netherexit' movement? If so how strong?

 

“I do not understand why the British government needs until October to decide whether to send the divorce letter to Brussels,” Juncker told German broadcaster ARD on Friday evening. “I’d like it immediately,” he added. “It is not an amicable divorce but it was also not an intimate love affair,” he said.

Well, at least he's honest.

 

There is a petition online to revote with a different set of rules:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/131215

It already crashed the government website and has so far more than 1.5M signatures in about 24 hours.

 

Not necessarily.

 

Well, I said I wouldn't be too concerned either if I were living in the baltic states. There's no advantage to be gained to seriously threaten them.

Not strong enough as we are an exporting country and it is certain we would fuck ourselves economically. No polish or syrian crowd moving in on our job market can beat that

 

They're across the channel. And the never really considered themselves part of Europe, historically speaking.

 

Newest trend on twitter: #brexit is going down in popularity. #bregret is way up.

 

"Great" Britain just put the final nail in it's coffin.

 

No matter what Obama did in the ME, there would have been refugees.

I don't think Putin will do anything. EU is an economic alliance, not a military one.

 

I agree with your sentiments, but actually it's the English who need to get out of Scotland and Ireland. 'British' is a collective word for the whole lot.

Virtually no chance of London going independent.

If I were an American I'd take warning from the swing to the right. A Trump presidency would be a far bigger disaster for the world as a whole than Brexit.

 

I really dont understand this. Did the people who voted to leave not bother to research the repercussions until after they voted?

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/06/24/the-british-are-frantically-googling-what-the-eu-is-hours-after-voting-to-leave-it/

 

My personal take on it is that many voted out of emotions rather than any rational thinking about the consequences. The leave campaign bombarded people with heavily slanted propaganda - some of it in extremely bad taste, some of it pretty blatantly racist. I think a kind of xenophobia has got into people, and it's not at all based on reason. A proportion of out voters thought their vote was a protest against the establishment, even though the out campaign was led mainly by establishment figures. Don't ask me to explain - I think mainly that people are controlled by media, most of which was for brexit, and a general kind of belligerent attitude that is an unfortunate component of the English psyche.

In a very broad way maybe the people who voted for out are similar to the people in America who support Trump. To me they seem equally as irrational, racist and even a little bit stupid. Easily manipulated.

 

Dear jesus

 

Yes it does seem the demographic is very similar to Trump voters. I've just always assumed Brits were smarter than Americans

But yeah, media propaganda probably did have a lot to do with it

 

Seems I live in a country with a high proportion of complete idiots (not that it's news to me).

 

Ive yet to hear a single solid credible reason for england to stay

Now a push for a second referendum , waste of time, the vote would go the same way. A lot of it seems to be an under 30s vs over 30s thing. Dont think the majority of over 30s are going to change their mind

Imagine if there was an American Union ( both continents) LOLz, what would your opinion on a US-exit vote be


Globalization in general, the worlds poorest have actually gotten richer, the richer of course have gotten richer.....everyone in the middle though, globalization isnt really such a great thing, more so as one gets older and spends less of their income on cheap imports and there arent as many jobs around thanks to cheap imported labour. It will be that over 30s middle 80% of the population that will drive any attempt at a re-vote in england and similar kinds of decisions across the world

As a financial hub, London losing out to Frankfurt, never going to happen, London was one of the big three financial hubs long before the EU existed, the EU is only 23 years old

 

Yup.

 

^ This.

Oh, and I just read that Farage said that in case of a 52 - 48 outcome they should repeat the referendum. Before the vote that is. Now his opinion is somewhat different.