Well, this is a fine mess we’ve gotten ourselves into.
I’m all for people rebelling against the establishment, and I understand the impotent rage people feel against the forces of globalization wrecking their lives, but all the Brexit result will do is hand power from one bunch of rich toffs to another, ones who have since been shown to have lied about their promises and have no plan for what to do next. If voters outside London think those wankers are going to invest in them as much as the EU has they’re in for a rude awakening. I wish I could feel some schadenfreude over that but I’m too fucking angry.
As there seems to be some buyer’s remorse setting in, and with the economic consequences of Brexit already apparent (not to mention the potential break-up of the UK) some think that the next PM will bottle out of going through with it. But that will only enrage the hardcore Leavers and lead to a surge in support for UKIP from them — violence against immigrants is already on the rise. And just when you need a strong opposition to provide an alternative, the fucking Labour Party goes and implodes.
I really don’t see a good way out of this at the moment. Thanks Cameron!
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Wales and Cornwall, two of the most deprived regions in Western Europe, received billions in EU funding for regeneration projects, university building, the arts, etc. Both areas were almost unanimous in voting leave. Just wait… now the stuff will hit the fan, all the Leave brigade will start pointing thier fingers at others, trying to apportion blame on anyone but themselves. I already know some who are regretting their decision just a few days later, now they know the truth…
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So, just this once, after endless anti-Austerity protests and Doctors’ strikes, Cameron decides he’s going to listen to the public. Still, at least he’s proved to a whole new generation that a Public School education is a waste of money.
Meanwhile, the Leave side are becoming a lot more European this week: from where I’m sitting it’s like France after 1945 – ‘Me? Vote Leave? Nah, mate – I was with the Resistance’. Which doesn’t bode well for Farage after a week of impersonating Mussolini.
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Regardless of your vote in this referendum, setting out the viewpoint that those who were in the remain camp were somehow on the side of the downtrodden and oppressed “resistance” stretches the imagination! What next, the claim that those who supported the option of staying were latter day Robin Hoods?
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Rob jones: I’m not sure that’s what Tat was saying. I know of Leavers who are now regretting their decision. I strongly suspect there are those who, knowing they’ve made a huge mistake, will now deny they ever voted that way to begin with.
Tat wasn’t saying the Remainers were “downtrodden and repressed”, he’s implying some Leavers are changing their tune after realising the campaign they swallowed was just one huge lie. That’s the way I read it, anyway…
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The Robster is correct, again. I remember around 1981 that it was impossible to find anyone who would admit to having voted Tory, even though, logically, someone must have.
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Tat/robster, believe it or not I agree with the initial comments about those in denial over their referendum vote. I just thought the resistance analogy was inappropriate in this context. Maybe I’m just too darned touchy…
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I think everyone’s a bit touchy at the moment. Understandably so
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As a Scot and a remainer I’m doubly angry that we’re going to be dragged out of an EU that was practically the only check on an increasingly right-wing succession of governments.
Now we’re in a situation where Scotland will have to leave the EU despite a large majority here voting to stay, but we’ll also continue to be stuck with a UK Government that virtually nobody voted for in Scotland!
Me? I’m voting for Independence at the next referendum (which frankly can’t come soon enough).
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