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

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

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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)

To be honest, we should probably welcome anything from outside the boundaries of this sceptic isle right now, El T.

And yes, you'd have thought European balkanisation would be perfect for Putin/Russian flexing.

Also UK needs to maintain and increase the sort of dodgy Russian money it's been sucking up in property and other capital investments as a consequence ofnfinancial collapse, i'd've thought.

woooo free beers in Wetherspoons all day

gonna go claim my freedom breakfast

looking forward to Tim Martin's op-ed piece on this.

the silver linning is that it may force other EU countries to rethink their shit

day off work while we round up the undesirables

random accent checks on the street

"Pen?'
"But!"
"PEN!"
"No! Wait!"

good morning :(

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

luv 2 brexit

the silver linning is that it may force other EU countries to rethink their shit

Nah. Cats out of the bag iirc.

Honestly, give it 24 hours and we'll be weeping blood. If the LSE isn't suspended before nine am, I'd be surprised.

At a referendum night party at the London School of Economics, Kevin Featherstone, the head of the European Institute, said that whichever way things went, the vote should serve as a wakeup call to politicians across the continent.

"One of the deeper headlines from tomorrow, of a narrow victory either way, is that wider Europe has got to learn the lesson about how to re-engage with ordinary publics," he said. "We can see across Europe countries which have been ... far bigger supporters of the European Union for a number of years starting to have serious doubts."

serious doubts about what, avoiding another war?

Extraordinary vacuum of political leadership right now. During a GE you'd have had the major party leaders all talking by now. Not a peep from anyone except Farage

best gesture I can think of right now is to go out and buy an Iceland shirt

"I don't know barely anyone who's been to war. Who needs all this multilateral nonsense. See you in Switzerland!"

just in time for the somme centenary

dan hannan mep on bbc "it's morning in great britain"

can't believe Chukka Umunna has committed seppuku

uh wow.

good luck uk

:(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb4eZ7Z5yk8

I'd like to go out there and ask all the people who voted LEave exactly what they thought was going to happen today. Did they really think that when the sun rose that a giant cash register would ring and there'd be £350M sitting there that would have otherwise gone to the EU? Because some Leave wonk was just on BBC News being interviewed by Dimblebey and they're already backpedalling so hard on everything. Basically everyone who voted Leave voted for a fairytale fantasy that's about as real as fucking Narnia.

This is the worst vote to happen to Europe since Hitler. Literally, I can't think of any other situation where a public vote resulted in a worse outcome for Europe. Well of course Brexit isn't as bad as Hitler becoming Chancellor of Germany. But that's not saying much. In fact it's saying practically fuck all.

Fuck everything and fuck the noisy window that woke me up at 6.30am and fuck me for checking the news instead of going back to sleep

Fucking Corbyn calling for an immediate Article 50. Fucking twat should be calling for Cameron's head, he's still talking like a sodding back bencher

yep. cameron has literally done this. it's not even an open goal. it's all he should be saying. totally feeble.

Fuck waking up in Chicago horribly jetlagged and worying about this at 1am, and thinking that looking at my phone would reassure me and let me get back to sleep. I've never felt remotely this upset at a political result in my life. Apart from anything else this is going to be unbelievably bad at work (academia), so many ways this is fucked.