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

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

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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.

what, he should go on the telly and 50-odd percent of the electorate that david cameron is a bad person for allowing them the success they just had?

and TELL obv.

the lolguardian lolliveblog has some pages from the script labour MPs have been given ... and promptly leaked to someone at the FT ...

now more than ever what labour leads is petty, goalless rebellion with no clear goals other than to further reduce their own standing

If I see the front page of any pro-leave newspaper this morning I think I will vomit.

The baby boomers had one last flourish eh

Thomp: yes, because he is talking to Labour voters, who either are remain or are out for reasons that only a Labour-led exit negotiation could deliver. Either way he has to get Cameron to go

i don't think it'll make the papers this morning. tomorrow though.

I think that will be taken care of for him. Xp

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

― El Tomboto, Friday, 24 June 2016 05:25 (1 hour ago) Permalink

ding ding ding.

brexit is like the political version of those moms who say "I don’t know anyone who’s died of smallpox recently, so I don’t think I’ll have my child immunized."

is kate hoey popular in her constituency

Half the FTSE has failed to open, fucking hell

Xp She's always been a funny one. Good at the local level but chair of the countryside alliance and pro fox hunting. Anti war and usually rebels in all the right votes - but now this so fuck her.

Given that a lot of Corbyn's supporters in Labour presumably voted to Remain, I guess it's a pretty smart move for the Blairites to put all the blame on him and force a new leadership contest.

Barclays opened down 30%, RBS 35%.

Chris Ship from ITV is reporting an unconfirmed story that Cameron is resigning today.

so is Laura K

sarah wollaston mp on bbc speaking sympathetically

hey american cousins worried about war, don't worry we're still in the tip-top internationalist organization that really counts

Douglas Murphy ‏@entschwindet Jun 16

Is it possible that the only global influence Britain has left is to trigger the endgame to the 2008 crash?

he's gone

this fucking country

Cameron fought this campaign in the only way he knows how

obv

"there will be no immediate change in your circumstances" - that's bloody reassuring

PM resigns - not immediate, but by October.

it bloody doesn't look like that a very fucking clear decision.

The last leadership campaign took three months.

Dan Hannan was apparently talking about "phased repatriation" on the radio this morning.

LOL his voice was breaking.

can't wait to have a real legend in charge

looking forward to Farage disbanding UKIP later

The most poisoned chalice I can remember is about to be offered around the top end of the Conservative party.

Cameron has resigned - why am I not happy?

We deserve a general election to choose who leads these negotiations, not the fucking 1922