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

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.

xpost loool

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

Jesus fucking Christ.

https://mobile.twitter.com/johnauthers/status/746175981929455616/photo/1

"sick, disgusted and ashamed" as someone just put it sums it up for me.

http://www.opus-photography.net/smilies/LANout.gif

it's at times like this one feels one is entering an alternate timeline

https://twitter.com/intlspectator/status/746202336805064704

eu is going to have to punish uk to keep this thing intact i'm guessing

With this and Trump, the bizarre spectacle of entire voting populations gleefully punching themselves in the nuts is becoming weirdly commonplace

Who/Where's next?

Trump is historically unpopular. He's won the nomination of a party that can no longer win national elections.

Farage can't win an election to save his life and yet here we are

Bank of Japan apparently making announcements to try and stave off a run in the wake of the sterling plummet

Good luck with WW3 u guyz

Some quirky results in the north of England. Not many council areas there voted to Remain but they include Harrogate and Trafford which are Tory councils in largely Labour wider areas.

Farage can't win an election to save his life and yet here we are

this. he's somehow become the face of the biggest european political upheaval since the fall of the berlin wall. (i think that would be right?)

Poland already p unstable. Massive influx of previously uk based poles could tip things over the edge. Germany would have to intervene...

Scotland will be revisiting its decision sooner than later I guess?

I should butt out. I'm just sad.

Only person smiling more than Farage this morning might be Putin?

Poland actively wants people to come back

Idk if Putin really cares that much but at least he got a cool sea port / beach resort in return for tanking his economy.

(I wasn't being entirely serous, also: drunk)