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IF YOU COULD VOTE TO LEAVE OR REMAIN WITHIN THE EUROPEAN UNION AS A SUBJECT OF HRH (PBUH) WITH PERMANENT RESIDENCE IN THE UK OR CITIZENSHIP ABROAD, HOW WOULD YOU VOTE?

FUCK YES LET'S LEAVE GET HYPE YEY
Casual yes, let's leave and get independence done with
Meh, probably just scribble all over my vote ballot to spite tryhards
Casual no, let's remain and get integration done with
FUCK NO LET'S REMAIN GET CALM YEY

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Re: Breeki British Brexit thread
« Reply #1230 on: June 26, 2016, 05:50:27 pm »

... huh. Anyone know what happened around a couple hours ago to the pound? It was almost holding steady for a day or two and then there's another tiny cliff >_>
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Re: Breeki British Brexit thread
« Reply #1231 on: June 26, 2016, 06:29:20 pm »

... huh. Anyone know what happened around a couple hours ago to the pound? It was almost holding steady for a day or two and then there's another tiny cliff >_>
My guess would be the Asian currency exchanges opened for Monday business.
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Re: Breeki British Brexit thread
« Reply #1232 on: June 26, 2016, 06:36:59 pm »

From another thread. Somewhat relevant
The conservatives earned 15 more seats than last time,  in the repeat election in Spain, despite rampart corruption, and evidence of using the security forces of the state in order to attack and discredit their political opponents.
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Re: Breeki British Brexit thread
« Reply #1233 on: June 26, 2016, 06:48:33 pm »

My guess would be the Asian currency exchanges opened for Monday business.
That'd could do it. Cheers.
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Re: Breeki British Brexit thread
« Reply #1234 on: June 26, 2016, 07:33:15 pm »

It's looking like Jeremy Corbyn is going to need to replace basically his entire Shadow Cabinet after he fired one for trying to stage a coup and the others resigned in protest as part of the fallout of the Brexit vote.

Corbyn has stated that if anyone wants him gone they'll need to beat him in an election and that he refuses to simply stand down on the grounds that he was voted into leadership and he does not want to betray the trust of those who voted for him.

http://news.sky.com/story/1717625/twelfth-shadow-minister-joins-exodus

I feel I should be surprised at members of the Labour leadership still trying to oust Corbyn, but honestly given the amount of stupid nonsense that we saw in Scottish Labour around the referendum, the Scottish GE and the British GE itself I'm finding it hard to be surprised at how distanced their leaders can be from their base.

https://yougov.co.uk/news/2016/05/17/labour-members-increasingly-bullish-on-corbyn/

According to the most recent stats I could find the Labour party membership is more confident in Corbyn than they were several months ago.
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Re: Breeki British Brexit thread
« Reply #1235 on: June 26, 2016, 07:39:58 pm »

The Labour rebels been way too overt about trying to oust him, I'm pretty sure it only makes the party membership double down. As far as I know there's no mechanism for them to prevent him standing again even if they do manage to force another party leadership election.
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« Reply #1236 on: June 26, 2016, 07:45:39 pm »

Corbyn is not as other politicians.  Neither is Boris (and now I hear he's claiming he can negotiate himself into better terms within-but-not-within Europe and forget about the leave nonsense... Which I just don't see, but...)

Compared with the politicos of Blair, Cameron, Osborne, Gove, etc...  Well, the more distance someone can put between those people and oneself, the more the cynical grassrooters might be tempted to give them leeway to prove their metal, even after past hiccups.

It's probably also alike to what is driving Trump's success...  At a very simplistic level.
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Re: Breeki British Brexit thread
« Reply #1237 on: June 26, 2016, 08:32:24 pm »

Don't have a lot of time right now, gonna try to make a better post somewhere tomorrow. Still, I thought I'd share some links which I think haven't been posted in the thread before. Sorry if they are, and if any of these are from a 'source non grata' feel free to say so or ignore them.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/06/24/the-british-are-frantically-googling-what-the-eu-is-hours-after-voting-to-leave-it/

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/brexit-eu-referendum-racial-racism-abuse-hate-crime-reported-latest-leave-immigration-a7104191.html    Also reported on http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/26/racist-incidents-feared-to-be-linked-to-brexit-result-reported-in-england-and-wales
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Re: Breeki British Brexit thread
« Reply #1238 on: June 26, 2016, 08:48:02 pm »

Well clearly the next referendum should be if they should start deporting people.
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« Reply #1239 on: June 26, 2016, 08:54:37 pm »

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“This is England now, foreigners have 48 hours to fuck right off. Who is foreign here? Anyone foreign?”
Yep. That sounds about right.
And those guys "won" ;P
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Re: Breeki British Brexit thread
« Reply #1240 on: June 27, 2016, 12:25:15 am »

One thing to remember is that these people were likely racist even before the referendum. It seems that many articles are skipping this obvious fact and instead attribute instability to the brexit.

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Re: Breeki British Brexit thread
« Reply #1241 on: June 27, 2016, 12:59:32 am »

17,410,742 racists. Dear god.
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Re: Breeki British Brexit thread
« Reply #1242 on: June 27, 2016, 01:10:11 am »

Muh sovereignty
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Re: Breeki British Brexit thread
« Reply #1243 on: June 27, 2016, 01:34:29 am »

Nobody is saying all of the leave voters are racists who are now all gonna start a new Kristallnacht. But I think this does show that it was a factor that had a real influence on how the vote went down, though how much remains to be seen.

It's likely this is just a very vocal minority right now, but for every bloke who's now shouting at random people to pack their bags, I wonder how many others think similarly enough that it informed their vote. But even beyond that, it seems like the leave victory emboldened the worst of them, unless these sort of things had become common in the UK while I wasn't looking.
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Re: Breeki British Brexit thread
« Reply #1244 on: June 27, 2016, 01:42:08 am »

Good job Brexiting it, hero.
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