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Brexit Referendum Superthread

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    #1652
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    They got at 72 % turn out , I knew it would be high but that number still surprises me.


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    #1653
    Tigerandahalf
    Registered Users Posts: 7,814 ✭✭✭Tigerandahalf


    Who would have thought Cameron would be gone before Corbyn!

    All after leading them to an overall majority. Politics is strange.
    He was an impressive speaker and a very good debater. I wonder if he regrets backing the wrong horse or is happy to resign on principle.


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    #1654
    laugh
    Registered Users Posts: 3,745 ✭✭✭laugh


    Is Boris an MP?

    Edit: He's Mayor but not an MP can he become PM?


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    #1655
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    laugh wrote: »
    Is Boris an MP?

    Yeah he got elected last year I think


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    #1656
    An Ciarraioch
    Registered Users Posts: 5,805 ✭✭✭An Ciarraioch


    laugh wrote: »
    Is Boris an MP?

    Edit: He's Mayor but not an MP can he become PM?

    Yes, he was elected in 2015, as he couldn't run for a third term as Mayor.


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    #1657
    J Mysterio
    Registered Users Posts: 11,035 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio


    laugh wrote: »
    Is Boris an MP?

    Edit: He's Mayor but not an MP can he become PM?

    Hes not Mayor any more. Sadiq Khan.


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    #1658
    Akrasia
    Registered Users Posts: 22,423 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    mansize wrote: »
    BBC rumouring a snap Cameron resignation

    Prime minister Boris Johnson meets President Donald Trump

    (An actual headline from January 2017)


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    #1659
    Bob24
    Registered Users Posts: 10,905 ✭✭✭✭Bob24


    So Cameron just resigned. Where are the posters who believed him when he said he would stay no matter the result? Do they still believe all the other things politicians have said?


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    #1660
    AllGunsBlazing
    Registered Users Posts: 3,654 ✭✭✭AllGunsBlazing


    Johnson is too much of a lightning rod. There'll be a lot of ill will towards him after this - too much to win a leadership contest.


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    #1661
    Akrasia
    Registered Users Posts: 22,423 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    Vladimir Putin is sitting in the Kremlin now laughing his hole off


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    #1662
    [Deleted User]
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    Sky news saying markets in worse shape after cameron speech than black monday in 1987


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    #1663
    Patser
    Registered Users Posts: 8,032 ✭✭✭Patser


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Sky news saying markets in worse shape after cameron speech than black monday in 1987

    Check out the graph in this link, worst fall in FTSE history

    https://mobile.twitter.com/FT/status/746243856165933056


    You wanna see a cliff, this is what running off a cliff means.


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    #1664
    Jelle1880
    Registered Users Posts: 9,839 ✭✭✭Jelle1880


    Can't say I expected that result.

    Interesting times ahead, if the Irish government is smart (I know :pac: ) they will jump on this to get companies to move to Ireland, asap.

    As for the votes: Seems like 1 generation has decided for everyone.


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    #1665
    Burty330
    Registered Users Posts: 962 ✭✭✭Burty330


    Anybody know when the free movement of Europeans comes to an end?


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    #1666
    Vivian Little Cheddar
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭✭ Vivian Little Cheddar


    Patser wrote: »
    Check out the graph in this link, worst fall in FTSE history

    https://mobile.twitter.com/FT/status/746243856165933056


    You wanna see a cliff, this is what running off a cliff means.

    Rallying well though. @ 6050 now


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    #1667
    Bob24
    Registered Users Posts: 10,905 ✭✭✭✭Bob24


    Burty330 wrote: »
    Anybody know when the free movement of Europeans comes to an end?

    No-one can answer this type of question now. To be honest no-one even knows if the UK is actually leaving, let alone when and under which conditions.


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    #1668
    AllGunsBlazing
    Registered Users Posts: 3,654 ✭✭✭AllGunsBlazing


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Sky news saying markets in worse shape after cameron speech than black monday in 1987

    Well that speech either backfired or Cameron knew what he was doing and just gave the uk a two fingered salute as a goodbye present.


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    #1669
    Patser
    Registered Users Posts: 8,032 ✭✭✭Patser


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Rallying well though. @ 6050 now

    Sorry emmett I edited that link as you were posting, the new link shows the drop better


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    #1670
    Burty330
    Registered Users Posts: 962 ✭✭✭Burty330


    Bob24 wrote: »
    No-one can answer this type of question now. To be honest no-one even knows if the UK is actually leaving, let alone when and under which conditions.

    Its been set in motion . No turning back now. Cameron is gone. Doesn't want to deal with the ramifications.


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    #1671
    AllGunsBlazing
    Registered Users Posts: 3,654 ✭✭✭AllGunsBlazing


    Bob24 wrote: »
    no-one even knows if the UK is actually leaving, .

    Uh, Cameron just comfirmed that they are.


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    #1672
    Akrasia
    Registered Users Posts: 22,423 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    Bob24 wrote: »
    No-one can answer this type of question now. To be honest no-one even knows if the UK is actually leaving, let alone when and under which conditions.

    Stage 1: Denial

    http://psychcentral.com/lib/the-5-stages-of-loss-and-grief/


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    #1673
    irishgeo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,495 ✭✭✭irishgeo


    AllGunsBlazing wrote: »
    Uh, Cameron just comfirmed that they are.

    He hasn't envoked article 50 which officially tells the EU they are out. They have 2 years to work out the details once it's envoked


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    #1674
    adocholiday
    Registered Users Posts: 1,897 ✭✭✭adocholiday


    I am delighted with the vote, and no I'm not a racist or a xenophobe. The EU has been running roughshod over its members for years. Dictating to sovereign countries on numerous different subjects, not just the immigration thing, with countries having to put the EU Agenda first over their national interest. Now that one of the most influential members is leaving they are going to have to reassess everything.

    The EU is better served as a multi-national trade organization and all that comes with it, but keeping their noses out of the laws and running of its members. Hopefully this is the shake up the EU needed now.


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    #1675
    Burty330
    Registered Users Posts: 962 ✭✭✭Burty330


    J Mysterio wrote: »
    Gibraltar is fučked :pac:

    Why's that mate?


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    #1676
    Francie Barrett
    Registered Users Posts: 16,643 ✭✭✭✭Francie Barrett


    Burty330 wrote: »
    Why's that mate?
    Spain have said they will close the land border with Gibraltar. It basically means all those people who have livelihoods in Spain are fooked.


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    #1677
    MarkR
    Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,107 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    Nigel Farrage has said that no British database is allowed to have foreign keys from now on. (Nerd joke, sorry)


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    #1678
    Burty330
    Registered Users Posts: 962 ✭✭✭Burty330


    irishgeo wrote: »
    He hasn't envoked article 50 which officially tells the EU they are out. They have 2 years to work out the details once it's envoked

    He never will now that he has stepped down. Who is actually acting as PM. The position is hardly vacant is it


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    #1679
    Tigerandahalf
    Registered Users Posts: 7,814 ✭✭✭Tigerandahalf


    Francie Barrett wrote: »
    Spain have said they will close the land border with Gibraltar. It basically means all those people who have livelihoods in Spain are fooked.

    96% voted to Remain. Clearly worried about border controls delaying their commute. A lot of financial transaction/tax dodging jobs there as well.


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    #1680
    Akrasia
    Registered Users Posts: 22,423 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    adocholiday wrote: »
    I am delighted with the vote, and no I'm not a racist or a xenophobe. The EU has been running roughshod over its members for years. Dictating to sovereign countries on numerous different subjects, not just the immigration thing, with countries having to put the EU Agenda first over their national interest. Now that one of the most influential members is leaving they are going to have to reassess everything.

    The EU is better served as a multi-national trade organization and all that comes with it, but keeping their noses out of the laws and running of its members. Hopefully this is the shake up the EU needed now.

    The laws and regulations are required for a successful single market.

    If for example, the U.K. reduces regulations on agriculture to cut costs, the E.U. farmers would be perfectly justified in calling for import tariffs on U.K. products to reflect the higher standards in the E.U.

    If the U.K. negotiates a trade agreement with the E.U. it will be thousands of pages long and it will include most of the regulations that are currently in place as E.U. regulations.


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    #1681
    Burty330
    Registered Users Posts: 962 ✭✭✭Burty330


    Francie Barrett wrote: »
    Spain have said they will close the land border with Gibraltar. It basically means all those people who have livelihoods in Spain are fooked.

    Can they do that. Half of Spain has moved into the south of England. More and more come all the time over Spain's chronic unemployment levels. The Spaniards may well be fooked also in that case.


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