Psychoactive Substances: Rolling UK Politics in The Neo-Con Era

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but yes i do think the average opinion of a few hundred currency traders, or a few thousand betters, are worth paying more attention to than the four pundits on the bbc who are sat around joking about how wrong they were last year

π” π”žπ”’π”¨ (caek), Thursday, 23 June 2016 23:54 (seven years ago) link

even at this early stage, i fucking hate this feeling of dread, of separation from people in this country whom i don't know or ever meet. it is really grim.

Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Thursday, 23 June 2016 23:54 (seven years ago) link

Swindon strongly for leave too.

Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 23 June 2016 23:54 (seven years ago) link

fuck Swindon tbh

Noodle Vague, Thursday, 23 June 2016 23:55 (seven years ago) link

den of swines

coygbiv (NickB), Thursday, 23 June 2016 23:55 (seven years ago) link

I'd expect shitholes to vote Leave though.

A heartless anonymous firebrand (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 June 2016 23:55 (seven years ago) link

total silence in the newsroom after Swindon there

stet, Thursday, 23 June 2016 23:56 (seven years ago) link

Swindon result is no big deal –  55-45 is slightly better for Remain than the two forecasts I'm aware of.

Alba, Thursday, 23 June 2016 23:57 (seven years ago) link

Farage with the accurate assessment of Leave voters

Damascene kid (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 23 June 2016 23:57 (seven years ago) link

Can only imagine LG. I'm invested as I lived there, have friends in the uk etc, but to see these early results unfold I'd feel very much alone, too.

Wonder what country you will wake up in tomorrow.

Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 23 June 2016 23:57 (seven years ago) link

And Scilly isles have gone well to Remain, where Leave was forecast by APCO

http://apcoworldwide.com/docs/default-source/default-document-library/Thought-Leadership/eu-referendum-guide.pdf?sfvrsn=0

Alba, Thursday, 23 June 2016 23:58 (seven years ago) link

it is vote by vote, right?

Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Thursday, 23 June 2016 23:58 (seven years ago) link

"nick what are you doing tonight?"

"being one of the worst people alive."

π” π”žπ”’π”¨ (caek), Thursday, 23 June 2016 23:58 (seven years ago) link

pondering whether if Leave wins i can claim tomorrow off work on a "stockpiling camembert" ticket

Damascene kid (Noodle Vague), Friday, 24 June 2016 00:00 (seven years ago) link

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/1ccbc3c28ca343407734a556f2312b914d23234b/0_4_2124_1274/master/2124.jpg?w=780&q=20&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&dpr=2&s=71e91646294b4d2359d392e2892a7c6e

Leave campaigners celebrate as they win the vote in Sunderland. Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images

rap game lee rigby (nakhchivan), Friday, 24 June 2016 00:00 (seven years ago) link

Friends in Sunderland have said that most of the money for regeneration projects has come from the EU. But that never seemed to be in the news at all, not even from Remain campaigners.

emil.y, Friday, 24 June 2016 00:00 (seven years ago) link

I'm just glad I've got a therapy session tomorrow. Going to need it.

emil.y, Friday, 24 June 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link

Glasgow turnout looks hella low at 56%

stet, Friday, 24 June 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link

The market movement is more useful as a bellwether of what might happen to the pound eventually than as an indicator of the result itself, I'm sure that's what caek was getting at.

hairy banjo (jed_), Friday, 24 June 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link

breaking news, Glastonbury audience secedes. demands urban safari

Damascene kid (Noodle Vague), Friday, 24 June 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link

from a night eighteen months ago i remember the turnout in the deprived quarters of glasgow being extremely low

rap game lee rigby (nakhchivan), Friday, 24 June 2016 00:02 (seven years ago) link

think i might watch children of men

π” π”žπ”’π”¨ (caek), Friday, 24 June 2016 00:02 (seven years ago) link

Orkney, Clackmannashire, Isles of Scilly, Gibraltar. No worries for Remaisn.

A heartless anonymous firebrand (Tom D.), Friday, 24 June 2016 00:02 (seven years ago) link

:)

rap game lee rigby (nakhchivan), Friday, 24 June 2016 00:03 (seven years ago) link

this isn't actually happening is it

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 24 June 2016 00:03 (seven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwtSdJaPCSI

Damascene kid (Noodle Vague), Friday, 24 June 2016 00:03 (seven years ago) link

this is just like the election, the same feeling ronan describes

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 24 June 2016 00:04 (seven years ago) link

Glasgow overall turnout was 75% for indyref

stet, Friday, 24 June 2016 00:04 (seven years ago) link

it's so fucking crazy, uk has the most non-existent reasons for leaving of pretty much any country in the EU!

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 24 June 2016 00:04 (seven years ago) link

it's almost as if

Damascene kid (Noodle Vague), Friday, 24 June 2016 00:04 (seven years ago) link

i've drifted back towards calm last 20 minutes but i presume we're all just human whack-a-moles for life for the next few hours

Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 24 June 2016 00:06 (seven years ago) link

Glasgow overall turnout was 75% for indyref

― stet, Friday, 24 June 2016 01:04

yeah which is not really that high either compared to the independence referendum average, or considering in abstraction that one in four people couldn't be bothered deciding what country they wanted their home to be in the next day

rap game lee rigby (nakhchivan), Friday, 24 June 2016 00:06 (seven years ago) link

At least half my office and half my partner's office are EU nationals, half our friends are EU nationals, we are EU nationals. Things are feeling pretty concrete right now.

Η‚bait (seandalai), Friday, 24 June 2016 00:08 (seven years ago) link

yeah. i.. just.. the hassle of this shit will be rippling through people's lives for years!

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 24 June 2016 00:09 (seven years ago) link

Real England.

A heartless anonymous firebrand (Tom D.), Friday, 24 June 2016 00:10 (seven years ago) link

Best question I heard on the Beeb tonight was if voters might have used the referendum as a proxy to vent all their racism, kicking establishment and the government. It wasn't answered properly. Which answered it all the more.

Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 24 June 2016 00:11 (seven years ago) link

Matthew Holehouse, in Brussels, says things have turned sour at the Funky Monkey bar.

Damascene kid (Noodle Vague), Friday, 24 June 2016 00:12 (seven years ago) link

It just feels like there's an infinity of Kettering shittowns in England, there's no way for remain

woof, Friday, 24 June 2016 00:12 (seven years ago) link

25-30 per cent of Labour are Leave-ish so am assuming many of those are in post-industrial places.

jedi slimane (suzy), Friday, 24 June 2016 00:13 (seven years ago) link

Voters using elections as a proxy to kick the establishment is all the rage iirc

tsrobodo, Friday, 24 June 2016 00:13 (seven years ago) link

yeah i remember when all those Scottish lads told the establishment to get tae fuck

Damascene kid (Noodle Vague), Friday, 24 June 2016 00:15 (seven years ago) link

the odds are getting tighter and tighter

Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 24 June 2016 00:15 (seven years ago) link

It just feels like there's an infinity of Kettering shittowns in England, there's no way for remain

Yes. Too many hellholes out there.

A heartless anonymous firebrand (Tom D.), Friday, 24 June 2016 00:16 (seven years ago) link

What happens if it is 50/50 with a very marginal difference (i.e 100s of votes either way). Does it mean we end up implementing a decision that half the country won't agree with?

Jill, Friday, 24 June 2016 00:19 (seven years ago) link

Establishment in Scotland was Labour for a while, pretty sure they got tae fuck

tsrobodo, Friday, 24 June 2016 00:19 (seven years ago) link

I'm still hoping for it to be tight Leave win in England so that overall it comes out Remain due to Celtic votes

stet, Friday, 24 June 2016 00:19 (seven years ago) link

I feel sick.

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 24 June 2016 00:20 (seven years ago) link

low turnout in glasgow, i'm reading 56 per cent on twitter. i wish i could just go to bed, my reading this is futile.

Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 24 June 2016 00:20 (seven years ago) link

Currently I'm between stages 3 and 4 of the KΓΌbler-Ross model.

Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 24 June 2016 00:21 (seven years ago) link

xps
Would be a thing to find in 6 hours that half the people in this country make you feel sick

tsrobodo, Friday, 24 June 2016 00:21 (seven years ago) link


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