Britain votes for Brexit after dramatic night leaves nation divided
Source: The Guardian
The British people have voted to leave the European Union in a historic referendum in which they rejected the advice of the main Westminster party leaders and instead took the plunge into the political unknown.
The decision in favour of Brexit, following a bitterly close electoral race, represents the biggest shock to the political establishment in Britain and across Europe for decades, and will threaten the leaderships of both the prime minister, David Cameron, and the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn.
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The value of the pound swung wildly on currency markets as initial confidence among investors expecting a remain vote was dented by some of the early referendum results, triggering falls of close to 9% and hitting its lowest level against some foreign currencies since 1985. Jeremy Cook, chief economist and head of currency strategy at WorldFirst, said: Sterling has collapsed
It can go a lot further as well.
By 4am, a series of key results signposted a likely leave victory. After a lower than expected margin of victory for the remain campaign in Newcastle, where it won the backing of 54% of voters, there was a jolt after midnight when leave captured Sunderland with 61.3% of the vote in a city which has traditionally been a Labour stronghold.
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msongs
(67,199 posts)villager
(26,001 posts)The isolationists there have now made it so they can't afford to travel anywhere else, yet it will be cheaper for all those "foreigners" to come have a look....
Little Tich
(6,171 posts)Moostache
(9,895 posts)I expect a return of "the troubles" in Northern Ireland, a Scottish exit from the UK and England standing alone or with Wales but drastically reduced in world stature and influence.
Nothing good is going to come from this.
Boudica the Lyoness
(2,899 posts)Thank god we are not cowardly little shits!
cstanleytech
(26,080 posts)willing to wager that England will endure if it happens as it has during other trying times.
840high
(17,196 posts)Angel Martin
(942 posts)soon to be joined by Italy, France, Germany, Holland, Sweden, Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary etc.
EU is not popular with anyone except Brussels elites and hangers on
https://www.rt.com/viral/348039-brexit-eu-referendum-domino/
sofa king
(10,857 posts)inanna
(3,547 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Nationalism in Europe always leads to disaster.
OnDoutside
(19,908 posts)British friends of mine, who are normally very middle of the road, told me that they were going to vote Leave. These are the type of people who detest what that racist bigot, Nigel Farage, stands for, yet they voted Leave in the full knowledge that they were on the same side as him. They had reached the point where they didn't care, they wanted change.
There is an appetite amongst the general populace of countries all over the world that they are sick of the status quo, and want this "change", whatever this change is.
I was warming to the notion of Tim Kaine on the VP ticket, but this result, where normally decent people sided with a racist bigot, should not be lost on the Democratic Party, where a similar racist bigot is already on 40% of the vote in America. People want something different, and I fear a Hillary ticket is being viewed as more of the same. This convinces me that Elizabeth Warren offers what Hillary has challenges on, ie Trust and the appearance of doing something different. People are less concerned with left/right as much who will change the status quo ? In my opinion, a Clinton/Warren ticket should now be at the top of the agenda.