EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

Havering will be.

My parents are fairly unusual.

Liverpool steps up!

They don't buy the BS.

Holy fuck

Wish I hadn't woken up. This is a car crash. What is wrong with the English?

England is turning blue, and it's not the EU flag. Consistently the turnout is higher when leave wins. Is a a lot of heavy rain going to be responsible for us leaving the eu.

Scotland and london vs Wales and england.

It's effin close.

I wish I had heard a single convincing argument about leaving the EU - not immigration, which is a linked but not identical issue.

I'm pretty convinced we're heading out now, but it seems so counter-intuitive.

Something troubling just crossed my mind; I didn't even want a referendum on EU membership. I love voting; a shaky "X" in an inkjet-printed box is one of the rare times when you feel innately connected to effecting change through democracy, or that satisfies a pure, human desire to be small yet mighty. Whilst acknowledging an In-Out vote was part of Tory Dave's platform for being re-elected as PM, I do fear that it has seen an ugly, mistruth-ridden campaign reveal something even more insidious and rotten about how we view "the other" in our sceptered isle. We're no longer able to command an empire based on exploiting largely brown people; the village green where once echoed the thwack of leather on willow is history - it's some German discount supermarket. Ergo, a leave vote cast as an "anti-establishment" statement or a desire for getting "our" country back depresses me not just for its short-sightedness but more for what it says about us - and it IS us - that some of us do not seem to care about "the other." Realistically, the Gove-Johnson-Farage "anti-establishment" triumvirate represents a Marxist freedom fightin' troop about as accurately as a child's drawing of a potato is likely to resemble a Dali meisterwerk. I hope to wake up tomorrow being completely wrong on all the above points and able to enjoy another smashing day on the frankly tremendous Isle of Bute. Night night.

Also, Worcester was supposed to be a bellwether and has just gone 54:46 for leave.

Curtice thinks Leave have got it.

Apart from all the hatred and lies, i think it's about poverty. People who feel themselves to be on the bottom of things hope they might do better if things are shaken up. On some level the coming chaos is what they want.

Fair enough. No-one has given them a better option.

bollocks, at this rate the next thing will be The Donald getting in power over here too.

time to move planets

It's happening. Oh shit what now

Wales is too small a proportion to really be significant, but ffs they'll be fucked if they lose EU subsidies and how many immigrants actually go there?

People of England seem to be showing themselves to be xenophobic idiots.

ITV just called it - Leave.

Approx 10 million votes still to be counted

Please let sanity prevail

I think they called it a bit early, but am not hopeful :(

Sterling now at $1.34, was at $1.50 about six hours ago. Black Friday.

Edit: BBC just called Leave too.

Fuck
Birmingham lost

Voting public: well fucking done you narrow-minded cunts.

Protest voting? You stupid, stupid people.

Do we have a living in Frankfurt thread?

You fucking idiots.

I bet in a months time people will be regretting this and if the vote was taken again they'd change their minds.

Sterling has plummeted already and this has fucked the Euro too.

People were being asked to make a decision on a subject they didn't (and don't) understand and were actively misled by a campaign which focused on immigration when it should have focused on a dozen other things.

Don't blame the public, blame Cameron for calling this referendum which never needed to happen.

I blame the public for being fucking ignorant.

The Japanese stocks have fallen but the yen is up 7%. The Japanese Government has been trying to keep the currency down to help trade. Brexit FTW indeed. Top PM work Dave..

Got up to piss thought I'd check news .. WHY!?!??

Wtf have we done?