Thoughts?

The "Leave" campaign genuinely angered me because most of their posters and leaflets had blatant fear mongering lies which the older generation swallowed hook, line and sinker. Lies that were disproved easily with facts.

It's the Trump effect for the UK. Fear mongering and stupid people with an isolationist policy have triumphed over facts and working together for the greater good.

It's the end of the day now and I'm not angry anymore, just tired. The pound has crashed to its lowest level since 1985 and a whopping 30% has been wiped off the value of most bank shares. All because of lies and fear.

Edit: Scotland is talking about another independence vote from the UK, as they mostly voted for Remain. As did Northern Ireland, which is seriously considering seceding from the UK and rejoining the Irish mainland. So if we look at the worst possible outcome that could come from all this; the UK ceases to exist and England becomes an isolationist little island with absolutely no power whatsoever that Russia and China steamroll over on the world stage.

Thanks, fucknuggets.

Mortious fucked around with this message on 06-24-2016 at 08:56 PM.

Although no matter what happens on that point I still kinda expect that Scotland will hold another "fuck this shit, we're out" vote.

And so far the worst one-liner I've had for the vote:

"Well, it looks like the EU will have 1 'GB' of free space soon..."

That being said, as far as one liners go, there's a British author I follow on Twitter. He had this to say: "Right now, you can walk up to any British citizen on the street and say, " You fucking idiot!" And have a 52% chance of being right.'

Sorry for the idiots in your country.

For once I'm glad Scotland exists. Well.. that and it's a good place to store our nuclear missiles.

Mortious fucked around with this message on 06-27-2016 at 05:51 PM.

He writes good books, too.

What are you going to do if Scotland leaves?

Edit:Meant to write Farage but it autocorrected to garage. I'm leaving it.

Azakias fucked around with this message on 06-28-2016 at 05:25 PM.

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Channeling the spirit of Sherlock Holmes, Mortious absently fondled Watson and proclaimed:
Latest news is that Scotland may use its Parliamentary veto to block the leave vote.

For once I'm glad Scotland exists. Well.. that and it's a good place to store our nuclear missiles.

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From what I understand, Scotland doesn't get a veto. The most they could do is another referendum to leave, and try to break away, if the news I'm reading is correct.

1) Oil's not $100 a barrel
2) They'd have to adopt the Euro

For the first, what I mean is the the Scottish economy would take a short-term, but severe hit if they left the UK, and they wouldn't have exports (like expensive North Sea oil) to make up the difference. It might make sense if the price of oil comes back up in a couple years, but that's really anybody's guess.

For the second, the UK was given a great number of concessions to get them into the EU, chief among them was getting to keep their currency. This has proved to be a massive boon to the UK. An independent Scotland attempting to join the UK would get no such concessions or considerations. They'd be a normal member state, no more or less important than, say, Romania.

That's where it's really gonna suck for the UK: if they do go ahead and invoke Article 50, the EU is going extract some pretty harsh exit terms from the UK(this will be partially done to discourage other states from contemplating exiting). And any attempts to rejoin, by either a segment or the entirety of the UK, will mean they forego any beneficial treatment and will be, for want of a better term, the low men on the totem pole.

Karnaj fucked around with this message on 06-30-2016 at 02:52 PM.