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Should Britain stay or leave?

Stay! 185 48.43%
 
Leave! 197 51.57%
 
Total:382
Ganoncrotch said:

One of the biggest peacekeeping forces on Earth has just lost 1/6th of it's power, in terms of global protection from terrorism and attacks, this has a grave impact, people will die because of this vote, simple as that.

England will still be buddies with most of Europe and they have strong allies in USA, Canada and Australia.  I don't think anyone is going to die directly because England left the EU.  Well there probably will be a few deaths (like that crazy shooting the PM that wanted to stay) but terrorism is already hampered between European nations.  I believe the central intelligence agencies across Europe are finally starting to talk to each other which is a nice step.  The EU didn't mandate these governments to share intelligence.



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LurkerJ said:
Marcus Weber and Joseph Daul, who head up the European People's Party - the parliament's largest group - said: "There cannot be any special treatment for the United Kingdom. The British people have expressed their wish to leave the EU. Leave means leave. The times of cherry-picking are over.”

"The EU cannot be taken hostage by a Tory leadership wrangle. We need an article 50 notification now."


Boris Johnson:
"In voting to leave the EU it’s vital to stress that there’s no need for haste, and as the Prime Minister has just said nothing will change in the short term except work will begin on how to extricate this country from the supranational system. As the Prime Minister has said there is no need to invoke Article 50,"


I don't get it...

I have a small group of friends and a brother who voted leave. Everyone one of them regrets it as they didn't see the reactions coming. 

 

My brother for example works for one of the major banks as a cyber threats analyst and his team over look many different things. They aren't too happy with how things are going. 

 

People didn't think Scotland would leave, nor did they think Ireland might start thinking about uniting,  nor did they think of the UKIP consequences or the alternative to Cameron being either an idiot or a racist who has destroyed the education system. 

 

Most people only voted thinking about immigration and now it's dawned on them as the consequences start showing. 

 

Cameron stepping down is a clever move. He didn't want it, he shouldn't need to be the one to sign it. I still think Cameron should have just said FU and gone with his decision. 



poklane said:
lmao http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/i-really-regret-my-vote-now-the-brexit-voters-who-wish-theyd-voted-to-remain-a3280361.html

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAAHHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHHAAH

AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAAH

I havn't laughed so much in such a long time. Scotland, really? You could become independent of the UK, voted to stay, now you got removed from the EU even if you wanted to stay in the EU.

This is so evil.



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Nem said:

It is a big deal. The voting was divided aswell and has serious consequences. The UK was under the "protection" of an economic giant as the EU. They are leaving it, so now they will be just another small country. The ammount of confidence in its economy is shaken. That obviously has consequences.

 

But this is the kind of thing that perhaps has to happen for people to be reminded that tere are consequences for bad decisions. Seems like both brits and americans have been confortable for so long that they don't understand consequence anymore until they break it.

I agree I'm stongly on the remain side but the UK mainly the English side of things (I'm English as well) have gotten far to much on the high horse and part of me wants the bad decision to go through to bring many prideful people back down to reality.



LurkerJ said:
Marcus Weber and Joseph Daul, who head up the European People's Party - the parliament's largest group - said: "There cannot be any special treatment for the United Kingdom. The British people have expressed their wish to leave the EU. Leave means leave. The times of cherry-picking are over.”

"The EU cannot be taken hostage by a Tory leadership wrangle. We need an article 50 notification now."


Boris Johnson:
"In voting to leave the EU it’s vital to stress that there’s no need for haste, and as the Prime Minister has just said nothing will change in the short term except work will begin on how to extricate this country from the supranational system. As the Prime Minister has said there is no need to invoke Article 50,"


I don't get it...

I'll translate:

Boris Johnson - Now that we won we don't want to leave because the is no actual plan and structure in place and we've yet to start work on one and our campaign was built on a load of bullocks that consists of lies and half truths. If we left now we'd be up shit creek.



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Wyrdness said:
LurkerJ said:
Marcus Weber and Joseph Daul, who head up the European People's Party - the parliament's largest group - said: "There cannot be any special treatment for the United Kingdom. The British people have expressed their wish to leave the EU. Leave means leave. The times of cherry-picking are over.”

"The EU cannot be taken hostage by a Tory leadership wrangle. We need an article 50 notification now."


Boris Johnson:
"In voting to leave the EU it’s vital to stress that there’s no need for haste, and as the Prime Minister has just said nothing will change in the short term except work will begin on how to extricate this country from the supranational system. As the Prime Minister has said there is no need to invoke Article 50,"


I don't get it...

I'll translate:

Boris Johnson - Now that we won we don't want to leave because the is no actual plan and structure in place and we've yet to start work on one and our campaign was built on a load of bullocks that consists of lies and half truths. If we left now we'd be up shit creek.

Basically...

What a sad sad day. I can't imagine how some of you British guys feel. I keep checking the news looking for a glimpse of hope that this is not gonna go through :(



Wyrdness said:
LurkerJ said:
Marcus Weber and Joseph Daul, who head up the European People's Party - the parliament's largest group - said: "There cannot be any special treatment for the United Kingdom. The British people have expressed their wish to leave the EU. Leave means leave. The times of cherry-picking are over.”

"The EU cannot be taken hostage by a Tory leadership wrangle. We need an article 50 notification now."


Boris Johnson:
"In voting to leave the EU it’s vital to stress that there’s no need for haste, and as the Prime Minister has just said nothing will change in the short term except work will begin on how to extricate this country from the supranational system. As the Prime Minister has said there is no need to invoke Article 50,"


I don't get it...

I'll translate:

Boris Johnson - Now that we won we don't want to leave because the is no actual plan and structure in place and we've yet to start work on one and our campaign was built on a load of bullocks that consists of lies and half truths. If we left now we'd be up shit creek.

EU should force them out immediately. It'd be hilarious. 



LurkerJ said:

Basically...

What a sad sad day. I can't imagine how some of you British guys feel. I keep checking the news looking for a glimpse of hope that this is not gonna go through :(

It's a circus right now over here, you have some leave voters saying they regret their vote and never realized what it meant while the rest of them are saying yeah it'll be hard at first but things should be fine in the long run yet non of them can come up with a logical explanation of how we'll be fine, they're just blurting out optimistic babble that it's all going to fall into place.

The sad thing is only way to educate some of the leave mob is for it to actually happen and the negatives to kick in for it to hit home at that point the's no going back while a U-turn would spare us that it would give them a cause to continue moaning about the EU and how their choice wasn't given to them.



Soundwave said:
Wyrdness said:

I'll translate:

Boris Johnson - Now that we won we don't want to leave because the is no actual plan and structure in place and we've yet to start work on one and our campaign was built on a load of bullocks that consists of lies and half truths. If we left now we'd be up shit creek.

EU should force them out immediately. It'd be hilarious. 

They are working on it. No Joke. They want to do it as quickly as possible.



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Before I start I voted remain and still wish that was possible as the EU is definitely the better choice in the long tern imo even if I believe it isn't perfect and needs to have a big shake up to move forward but...Ultimately I think the Remain campaign have themselves to blame to some extent by trying to induce fear and scaremonger over the past few weeks it began to show that they went from a "We called this referendum to shut people up and we going to walk it with a 70%+ Remain vote" to a "Oh crap this is becoming a 50/50 situation and we may actually end up leaving", I believe if they cut all this this out of the Remain campaign a lot more people would of voted on the Remain side rather than voting Leave as if to just defy David Cameron.