Brexit EU referendum polling stations.

[Pan Narrans]

Eigenschadefreude

[JoeP]

Eigenschadenfreude

[Dragar]

All we can do now is get a nice bottle of (Italian) wine and watch the proceedings. I'm off to Croatia for a holiday in a week, where my stirling will now be worth far less. hopefully when I return, the political mess will have either resolved itself, or grown so terrible that it coalesces into a physical manifestation that we can stab with pointy things. If it forms around Boris Johnson, I will shed no tears.

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by Dragar

a physical manifestation that we can stab with pointy things

+1 [thanks]

[curses]

[slimshady2357]

Holy shit Richard Branson is making a whole lot of sense. Not 100% sure I agree with a second referendum (though I would really, really like one), but he makes so many good points about this whole cluster fuck.

Calling for Parliament to take a second look at the EU referendum | Virgin

[Crumb]

Well since the referendum is non-binding anyway, they can just ignore it. I have no idea what the parliment is like, but it seems like they should cram through a quick "No we really aren't leaving the EU" bill.

[ceptimus]

Most of the Tory party would never support such a bill, so it would stand no chance of passing. Even if it did, the electorate wouldn't stand for their vote being ignored by parliament and so UKIP would gain a lot of seats after the next General Election.

[curses]

Barclays and RBS shares suspended from trading after tanking more than 8% after Brexit | Business News | News | The Independent

Still trying to work out what most of this panic trading will mean in the long run. I'm not at all surprised by the banks being hit hard like this.

[ceptimus]

Originally Posted by curses

Barclays and RBS shares suspended from trading after tanking more than 8% after Brexit | Business News | News | The Independent

Still trying to work out what most of this panic trading will mean in the long run.

I think it means that clever bankers and stockbrokers will make lots of money.

Their newly gained wealth will have to come from somewhere. As usual, that will mostly be from the pockets of non-rich people - this time mostly UK non-rich people though I expect Europe to a lesser extent, and the rest of the world to an even smaller extent, will also lose out.

[ceptimus]

Well done Iceland! That's the way to show a country that thinks it's better than all the others!



Roy Hodgson is now the obvious choice for Brexit negotiator. He's currently unemployed and has experience of getting England out of Europe.

[Kyuss Apollo]

[Stormlight]

Originally Posted by ceptimus

Well done Iceland! That's the way to show a country that thinks it's better than all the others!



Roy Hodgson is now the obvious choice for Brexit negotiator. He's currently unemployed and has experience of getting England out of Europe.

GOVUK petition - If England lose to Iceland replay the match

[BrotherMan]

Praise the (Time) Lord | Full Frontal with...

[Stormlight]

Britain faces leaderless turmoil. But don't worry, Boris is back from the cricket | Marina Hyde | Opinion | The Guardian

As for Labour, the rolling pageant of departures from Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet, and the countermoves against them, frequently resembled an episode of Game of Thrones re-enacted by the Teletubbies.

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by slimshady2357

Holy shit Richard Branson is making a whole lot of sense. Not 100% sure I agree with a second referendum (though I would really, really like one), but he makes so many good points about this whole cluster fuck.

Calling for Parliament to take a second look at the EU referendum | Virgin

Yeeees ... good points, but they've already been made. The "update" after he read some of the comments suggests he might have opened his eyes to the real (self-defeating but more strongly held than anything rational) reasons for the leave vote. In the main article he just sounds like another "expert".

When the establishment politicos and establishment media create a deprived, uneducated and self-radicalised mass over 20+ years, establishment business and establishment media can't really speak in the resulting debate.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

It just made me laugh.

[Watser?]

It makes me cry

[Ari]

I do wonder how many Americans think electing Trump is the only way for America to escape the european union. Afterall Fox news did confuse it with the UN.

[erimir]

They're all blond...

Altho it seems that Wilders dyes his hair, and Trump has at least dyed his in the past (not sure what Trump's natural hair color is).

And interestingly, Boris Johnson has some Turkish heritage (and my understanding is that one worry was that Turkey would join the EU and then a bunch of Turks would immigrate) and Wilders is at least rumored to have Indonesian heritage...

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by Watser?

It makes me cry

Not surprising, yours is the most damned-looking of them all!

[Watser?]

Wilders is definitely an 'Indo' (mixed Indonesian/Dutch) but he keeps lying about that.

Geert Wilders' Indonesian roots define his politics, says anthropologist

[JoeP]

Some of the most rabidly racist Afrikaners were felt to have a touch of the tarbrush and ever so slightly curly hair.

[Vivisectus]

Well, Wilders did warn us: if you let immigrant families from predominantly Muslim countries in, the first thing they want to do is change the laws to make the place more intolerant. I guess he knows what he is talking about.

[JoeP]

Someone uploaded Boris Johnson’s post-referendum speech to Pornhub