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

Farage says he and his supporters had taken back control of the country “without a shot being fired”. Spectacularly nasty and ill-chosen words, what with the shots being fired and all.

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http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/morrissey-i-nearly-voted-for-ukip-i-like-nigel-farage-a-great-deal-8446651.html

Think they were pretty carefully chosen xp

maybe they were metaphorical bullets that farage was talking about, but even in that case what the fuck exactly was he referring to?

With the high turnout, we can't say people didn't really want it or it was just the cranky extremists that voted. I wasn't convinced at the start of the night remain would win and had a sinking feeling with the rush of registrations right after the Cameron / Farage debate. Farage himself thought it was pro-remain people signing up to oppose him but I think you'll probably have millions of people who don't usually vote doing so for the first time and doing so to vote leave. I think 55 / 45 is probably best case scenario at this point.

This is a disaster for the UK but I think the economic and political fallout will probably be so rapid it might undermine anti-EU movements across the rest of the continent.

yeah, metaphorical bullets doesn't mean anything. it was nonsensical and therefore intentionally or unintentionally offensive and malicious. both are equally bad.

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the EU have to punish the UK to discourage the break up of the EU, to add to any economic and political fallout just from the result itself.

so aside from insulting the memory of the assassinated MP, the implication of farage's remarks is that if 'remain' had one (or still wins) that the recourse would have been armed insurrection?

This is a disaster for the UK but I think the economic and political fallout will probably be so rapid it might undermine anti-EU movements across the rest of the continent.

― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Friday, 24 June 2016 04:32 (1 minute ago)

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yes, exactly. usual ill thought out threats and thuggishness nbd.

switching off the tv. would like to go to bed, but looking ahead to when i can go and get savagely drunk.

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er, "won," not one

The end is nigh for this one

All Scotland is Remain. IndyRef II can't be far off, surely

Broken Britain

IndyRef II has to happen now

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feel like 70 yrs after the war (just as it begins to pass from living memory) the fascists are winning again :(

A victory for 30 years of tabloid evil

BBC and ITV both calling it for leave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD8gO8TAr4s

http://ih1.redbubble.net/image.158316898.2338/flat,800x800,070,f.jpg

Birmingham voted to leave 4 minutes ago

Chuka Umunna, the London Labour MP, said that the referendum result highlighted “particular issues” for the Labour Party

Cameron's legacy.

Would be interesting to know what proportion of the Asian population in Birmingham was gulled into voting leave by the idea it might free up non-EU immigration.

cameron's legacy, remembered as the prime minister who deferentially set himself ablaze outside #10

was not expecting this

good luck UK

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/24/labours-chris-bryant-attacks-ed-miliband-as-he-blames-him-for-de/

I get the impression that a lot of the Labour right hate Ed Miliband even more than they hate Corbyn - I guess the thinking is that Corbyn is just doing what he does, and hating him would be like hating a fish for swimming, but Miliband should have known better?

pound has officially crashed now

The Nikkei has suspended trading. We could take this thing global.

So I went out several hours ago with US news making it sound like remain would win and I come back to this, pretty shocking

is this basically a vote against immigrants? bcz the bloody immigration issue predates EU membership by decades and was a direct legacy of the goddamn british empire.

It is partly a vote against immigration and partly a vote for 'fuck everything, burn it to the ground'.

So similar to Trump (who arrives today) in some respects.

a good thing there aren't 350,000,000 guns running around in UK like we have here in the US

It's more than just immigration. It's decades of the white working class being disenfranchised by politics, education, culture.

hey folks, this is ridiculous

https://twitter.com/MarcMallett_UTV/status/746191490628485120

BREAKING: Sinn Fein says "British government has forfeited any mandate to represent economic or political interests of people in N Ireland"

decades? centuries more like

can't believe that you can vote to willfully marginalize your country

Steve Hilton is somehow the most unbearable pundit the bbc have had on all night, even worse than Bill Cash and Chris Grayling

I mean in such a direct way xpost

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9BNoNFKCBI

Maybe it's been explained somewhere, but how in the world was this set up to be just a simple majority vote? Leaving the EU and willfully ruining the country for who knows how long should've had to clear at least a 60% threshold, ffs.

I'm too tired to properly parse this and it's Paul Mason but there are bits of this that make sense to me https://medium.com/mosquito-ridge/brexit-wins-an-illusion-dies-b60b6efad2d7#.mqprx4v2h

There's no legal obligation for the government to act on this vote - it's just advisory. But woe betide the government who tell the public they know best after this.

The government could resign

to be replaced by what?

darraghmac, racism, dead babies or serbian war criminals

Jol in?

chegnocrats and cat algorithms.

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I estimated 65/35 in my local area (Medway) ahead of the vote and it has just been called as 64/36.