Cornwall votes for Brexit then pleads to keep EU funding

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71. Actions can have consequences.

This is more like a yearbook photo.

Your picture's taken. It seemed like a good idea to put whiskers and cat ears on before the picture, but looking at the proofs ... Maybe not. The first option is to see if you can airbrush the offending bits out. Another option in most schools these days is to have your picture retaken.

The Brexit is advisory. The on-going consequences can largely airbrushed away.

No reason it couldn't be redone. A mulligan, so to speak. "I didn't think my vote counted. Now that I've stopped being a truculent teen, and decided to use this vote to show my displeasure at council policy on what I can have hanging in my window, I might even vote the issue being decided."

The immigrant issue is a big one, though. Protect local culture and attitudes or have outsiders come in and compel change? (Should we open up immigration by anglos and others to Indian reservations? How about gentrification, where outsiders often of a different color come in and revise a neighborhood's culture? If they reject the local history because it's not "their" history, is that a problem?)