Brexit

[Ultimate Paragon]

Brexit: when anti-establishment sentiment goes too far.

[TheContrarian]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/scotland-considers-second-referendum-vote-1.3650596

Sturgeon: "As things stand, Scotland faces the prospect of being taken out of the EU against her will. I regard that as democratically unacceptable. I think an independence referendum is now highly likely."

Basically, the UK would take another blow right when they're already going to be hit by leaving the EU, and Labour would find it much harder to form government since they've typically needed Scottish seats to do it.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/23/leave-or-remain-eu-referendum-results-and-live-maps/

Specifically:

England: 46.8% remain, 53.2% leave
Scotland: 62% remain, 38% leave
Wales: 48.3% remain, 51.7% leave
Northern Ireland: 55.7% remain, 44.3% leave

But notably, London voted to remain (59.9%).

So let's make this an analogy, those are always fun.

Someone somehow manages to table a nationwide referendum to make Fundamentalist Mormonism the official state religion of the USA.  It gets put to the vote, gets shot down by a majority in 50 states with only Utah voting for it (with a convenient 62-38 majority).

Utah screams about the unfairness of the vast majority of the population not going along with their decision and decides to leave.

A: Do we give a fuck?
B: Why do we give a fuck?

[TheContrarian]

Lets kick out Wales and Cornwall while we're at it and foist Norn Iron back on their ginger cousins.  This is a perfect opportunity to divest ourselves of some hangers-on.

[TheContrarian]

Also this

[Lt. Fred]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/scotland-considers-second-referendum-vote-1.3650596

Sturgeon: "As things stand, Scotland faces the prospect of being taken out of the EU against her will. I regard that as democratically unacceptable. I think an independence referendum is now highly likely."

Basically, the UK would take another blow right when they're already going to be hit by leaving the EU, and Labour would find it much harder to form government since they've typically needed Scottish seats to do it.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/23/leave-or-remain-eu-referendum-results-and-live-maps/

Specifically:

England: 46.8% remain, 53.2% leave
Scotland: 62% remain, 38% leave
Wales: 48.3% remain, 51.7% leave
Northern Ireland: 55.7% remain, 44.3% leave

But notably, London voted to remain (59.9%).

So let's make this an analogy, those are always fun.

Someone somehow manages to table a nationwide referendum to make Fundamentalist Mormonism the official state religion of the USA.  It gets put to the vote, gets shot down by a majority in 50 states with only Utah voting for it (with a convenient 62-38 majority).

Utah screams about the unfairness of the vast majority of the population not going along with their decision and decides to leave.

A: Do we give a fuck?
B: Why do we give a fuck?

Except it's exactly backwards. Brexit is entirely motivated by press-led bigotry in English regional areas. They're willing to lose access to labour and export markets to stick it to those smelly wogs on the continent. The Scottish don't actually care about English bigotry, they already don't like government by fiat from London and, I'm pretty sure, quite like the idea of being part of a multicultural Europe. England can have its little silly isolated poor society in the middle of nowhere, and the Boris Johnsons of this world can run it, as they were born to do.

[Tolpuddle Martyr]

Lets kick out Wales and Cornwall while we're at it and foist Norn Iron back on their ginger cousins.  This is a perfect opportunity to divest ourselves of some hangers-on.

Sure, kick them out. England's economy hangs on finance and services that were strategically placed because you were in the EU. What are you gonna do, open the coalmines again?

Boot out Wales and watch the Welsh join the EU and a shitload of London bankers relocate to Cardiff.

[dpareja]

Lets kick out Wales and Cornwall while we're at it and foist Norn Iron back on their ginger cousins.  This is a perfect opportunity to divest ourselves of some hangers-on.

Sure, kick them out. England's economy hangs on finance and services that were strategically placed because you were in the EU. What are you gonna do, open the coalmines again?

Boot out Wales and watch the Welsh join the EU and a shitload of London bankers relocate to Cardiff.

Nah, London'll declare independence, join the EU and take the Queen with them. The rest of you can become a republic*.

*By which, of course, I mean the kind with a reasonably sensible system of government, and not a "how drunk were you when you thought this up, because this system is really bad" system of government.

[Askold]

Remember all those times we said that the money that is going to EU should be used to improve the public healthcare system in Britain? Remember that? Oops, we didn't actually mean that.

http://boingboing.net/2016/06/24/the-morning-after-the-brexit-v.html

[Zygarde]

Wow, what a self-serving cunt, to lie like that and now your fucking country has shot itself in the goddamn foot.

[dpareja]

Cameron should say, "Fuck it, another Brexit referendum tomorrow."

[Askold]

I am learning so many Scottish insults from all the people who wish to correct Trump after he claimed that Scotland had voted to leave EU: http://imgur.com/gallery/bW0og

[dpareja]

I am learning so many Scottish insults from all the people who wish to correct Trump after he claimed that Scotland had voted to leave EU: http://imgur.com/gallery/bW0og

Scotland has the best insults they're great they're terrific, absolutely amazing insults, let me tell you they're absolutely tremendous.

[Tolpuddle Martyr]

Tiny fingered cheeto faced ferret-wearing shitgibbon...

That is poetry!

[lord gibbon]

My favorite is mangled apricot hellbeast.

[Canadian Mojo]

Also this

Pfft.

You and France couldn't handle Germany by yourselves -- twice. What makes you think the long since mighty British Empire will amount to anything more than a fart in a wind storm this time around?