The two countries that got to vote on leaving the EU both voted Yes!

[Renew Deal]

Let's not forget about Greeces vote one year ago to reject the Euro bailout. It was said to be a vote on leaving the EU. So if Greece said no and England said no, why not France, or Italy, or Spain?



Greece votes No: The European Union is dying before our eyes

Despite the scaremongering and bullying from those in Brussels, we are waking today with Greece having delivered a resounding No.

That comes despite EU bosses saying that it would mean a Greek exit from the Euro, not to mention the heavy economic pressure placed on the Greek people to go along with the wishes of Brussels. It is a crushing defeat for those Eurocrats who believe that you can simply bulldoze public opinion.

Chief bully-boy Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament, and other supposed leaders of the European Union did their best to terrify the Greek people into submitting to the wishes of the European Union. But they utterly failed. The fear espoused by the Yes campaign was rejected. Opinion polls that put the Yes side ahead just days before were way out, as thousands upon thousands of Greek citizens lined the streets chanting “Oxi”.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greece/11720081/Greece-votes-No-The-European-Union-is-dying-before-our-eyes.html

[SheilaT]

1. More recently, Great Britains said yes to leaving.

Not sure what exactly you are referring to when you said England said no.

[Renew Deal]

2. Voted no on staying

I wrote it backwards because of the Greek vote. they voted no on the bailout which was yes to leave.

[SheilaT]

7. England is only one part of the UK, otherwise known as Great Britain.

The distinction as important as thinking Texas or California or New York is synonymous with the United States.

[Humanist_Activist]

12. I think that distinction is going to become important, Scotland voted to stay in the EU...

and right after the referendum where they barely voted to stay in the UK, and part of the reason the Scotland independence failed was because there was no guarantee of continued EU membership for Scotland if they voted to become independent. Well, that's out the window now, I would give Scotland 10 years max, and they will become independent, may take Northern Ireland with them.

[jannyk]

4. You forgot Greenland

I forget when, but they voted themselves out and left.

[Corporate666]

5. When you get dumped again and again

it's time to start thinking maybe you are doing something wrong rather than thinking all the people you're dating just are too stupid and idiotic to understand how great you are.

The EU needs to do some soul searching. The UK and Greece aren't the only unhappy nations. Trying to create a super-structure government of unelected technocrats hasn't worked. One monetary policy hasn't worked. The UK people told their government what they wanted. The UK told the EU what their people wanted, and the EU said no to much of it. So the UK said "see ya!".

The EU needs to have a serious and long look at what they are offering their member states, because it's an at-will membership at the whim of each individual country, and the #2 biggest kid on the block just decided it wasn't in their interests to stay at the table any longer.

[pkdu]

6. Tonight 4 "countries " voted , and Scotland voted NO...so , careful with the lumping in with

"England"

This will likely lead to ANOTHER Scottish referendum on staying with the UK if it is intent on leaving EU...a colossal clusterfuck by the EXIT campaign.

[davidn3600]

9. What makes you think the EU is going to stay together?

Britain isn't the only nation in that bloc who is pissed off.

[MADem]

10. Maybe it's time for Northern Ireland to join the country they were stolen from. They voted against

leaving, too. Now what will happen? They'll have to man the border again. Can't have people slipping into UK via an unguarded Irish border, now, can we?



http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-36614443

[Gabi Hayes]

11. while he's over there, trump can build wall, and maybe have the Brits pay to patch up

Hadrian's, while he's at it!