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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

[scrdest]

It's a rhetorical device used for making a point.

I was going to post the exact same post, but then I realised maniac probably meant that the reason is that they named it Boaty McBoatface.

Which is awesome.

They didn't, in the end, AFAIK. The ship got named after Attenborough, but they named a smaller vessel onnit Boaty McBoatface.

[sluissa]

Saw a gem of a comment elsewhere from a Brit who said, "Why on Earth would you leave a policy decision to the British general public??! The last time you did that, you got Boaty McBoatface."

Given the amount of effort seemingly underway to ignore the result in the same manner, I move that we start referring to it as Brexit McBrexitface. And the counter-campaign as Project: Sir David Attenborough.

In fairness to the people who voted brexit mcbrexitface, they will symbolically kick Gibraltar out of the EU.

[RedKing]

Hmmm...now there's an idea for a compromise. Britain stays in, but a small portion leaves the EU (looking at you, Cornwall). Then all the Leavers can pile into Cornwall (while the Cornish complain about all the immigrants from York and Birmingham), and then the whole island tilts to the southwest, raising Scotland majestically into the sky.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Finally, Cornwall will become relevant!

[Starver]

If Corbyn doesn't appear on the leadership ballot there could be big trouble on the hard left.

Worst comes to the worse, he could be given a new Labour Party to work with.

No, not New Labour. And it would be retro to call it Old Labour. How about Real Labour (although then thete could be Provisional Labour,  Continuity Labour,  etc...  )

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Shadow Laor?

[Frumple]

No, no. High Labour. Their new symbol would be a five rayed sunrise over the UK flag.

[Starver]

Hmmm...now there's an idea for a compromise. Britain stays in, but a small portion leaves the EU (looking at you, Cornwall). Then all the Leavers can pile into Cornwall (while the Cornish complain about all the immigrants from York and Birmingham), and then the whole island tilts to the southwest, raising Scotland majestically into the sky.

So, which side were the melting glaciers from the last ice-age on? Geologists might know!

[Leafsnail]

I took it as "Cameron realized that the public would vote Bad Idea on a lark." But somehow I doubt he secretly wanted Leave to win.

Most of the Leave campaigners didn't want Leave to win.

[mainiac]

Should have voted on the name of emulsified meat product instead.

[palsch]

Anyone who cares about this sort of thing wouldn't be caught dead voting for the Lib Dems after the shitshow that was the Conservative-Liberal government.  Maybe the Greens can benefit.

I think that people who are actually paying attention would.

I mean, it has become obvious to many that the Lib Dems were holding back the Conservative government considerably and managed to get a decent amount of their manifesto policies passed, even if some were watered down and others ended up being claimed by the Tories. Then you have the current pledge to remain in or rejoin the EU which will be popular with many who voted remain or who feel conned by the leave campaigns. Plus I've seen people praising Clegg (!) for having a very clear vision of the results of a leave vote (notably this and this).

Literally the only thing continuing to hold back the Lib Dems is tuition fees, and that is becoming harder and harder to tag them with as time goes on.

I can imagine a couple of MPs defecting if Corbyn wins and there isn't a complete schism in the Labour party. I've seen one previously high-profile Labour supporter switch today, along with one member per minute being reported, and it is the Lib Dems who are making themselves visibly the party of Remain.

Of course, if Corbyn loses it would be more likely to see a swing towards the Greens, and all of this assumes the party doesn't actually split. I think that particular question depends on the unions and whether they accept the results either way.

[Grim Portent]

Huh, Clegg is looking damn near clairvoyant right now. Must be some kind of sorcerer.

[palsch]

I'd go with this.

[mainiac]

I mean, it has become obvious to many that the Lib Dems were holding back the Conservative government considerably

The conservative government couldn't have enacted a single one of those policies without the coalition government.  The Libs said that election reform was the reason to pick the tories over labor but they didn't get election reform, instead they got a silly farce of a referendum.  It was such poor negotiating on the part of the Libs that it would take Donald Trump to properly disparage their bargaining skills.

[Playergamer]

This is actually kinda funny.