I predict that, in the long run (say 5 years), this will end up having made very little difference to anything at all, and everyone who got so ridiculously het up about this (on both sides) will, if they have any humility, feel a little bit silly.

Did you go to the post box?!

I don't think things are going to get much better up there either. They've shafted the whole lot.

And we'll get Johnson in charge. And the US will probably get Trump.

Two of the world's most powerful nations are actually going to be run by a Willy and a Fart.

There's a ton of interesting polling stuff here:

Even if it only takes 5 years for things to return to "normal", that 5 years can be a huge amount of time for people to put their lives on hold or bear the brunt of economic uncertainty.

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another...

The UK knew - it was that time. And now is that time in the USA.

The Brexit referendum is akin to our own Declaration of Independence. May that refreshed spirit of sovereignty spread over the pond to America’s shores!

Congratulations, smart Brits. Good on you for ignoring all the fear mongering from special interest globalists who tend to aim for that apocalyptic One World Government that dissolves a nation’s self-determination and sovereignty... the EU being a One World Government mini-me.

America can learn an encouraging lesson from this.

It is time to dissolve political bands that connect us to agendas not in our best interest. May UN shackles be next on the chopping block.

One of the many cringeworthy moments on the telly yesterday was a woman in a UK area that does incredibly well out of EU grants and subsidies. She spouted out some half-formed nonsense about immigration and Britain being great again. The interviewer asked her if she'd considered the tens of millions pounds of EU money that had been spent on regenerating the area she lived in, including the very road they were stood in at that moment in time, to which she cheerfully replied she had no idea about things like that, then pulled up her jumper to reveal some cliched nonsense t-shirt with the Union Jack on it, said 'We're English!' and marched off triumphantly down the street.

Was in a pub in Cornwall last night having some food with the family. All the locals where at the bar, saying stuff "like no more fat cats", "no more immigrants", "they won't be getting anymore money from us."

Its like they think they will be getting some sort of pay out when we exit the EU

Chances are there area got plenty of benefit from the EU

It's been 52/48 the other way. Why do you think the pound surged before results started coming in? Banks had exit polls that were suggesting remain right up until the last minute. This is the largest one day fall in sterling in recorded history, and a larger FTSE collapse than the banking crisis. But okay - it'll be back in a few months. Right.

And then there's the dark heart, the further empowerment of a nasty strain of right-wing popularism. Not all Leave voters were racists, but all racists voted Leave. Today, those people feel like they've received support for their world view from the nation. Last night, people of colour were told go home, get out, we don't want you. Yesterday, every single immigrant in this country was made to feel unwelcome. That's a chilling effect that runs through out entire country.

I don't think half our country are racists. I am, however, really scared that racists now think half our country agrees with them

I'd be worried about it all kicking off. The Remain voters seem fully fed up with the absolutely ridiculous and stupid reasons some people based their Leave vote on. Obviously, there will be people who feel that leaving the EU is the best decision and realise there will be a period of adjustment but some of them, especially the racists, have made their decision based on absolute nonsense.

There's going to be some serious unsavoury shit going down from both sides I imagine. Tip of the iceberg this.

I keep cooling down about unbelievable leave result... then it just keeps hitting me again like a slap in the face.

My brothers wife is Asian so can't see him as a racist really.

I'm sure your brother is not a racist, but that aside, applying that idea to anyone is ridiculous. Nigel Farage's wife is German, doesn't stop him being a xenophobic nightmare trying to cleave us away from our European neighbours.

That's not a commentary on your brother at all, but really having friends or lovers of another race doesn't automatically mean a person harbours prefjuduce against nobody of any other race based on their ethnicity or colour.

My mother regularly moans about immigrants and her wife is from Belgium, so...

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/jeremy-corbyn-allies-sabotaged-labour-in-campaign-and-fuelled-brexit_uk_576eb1b5e4b0d2571149bb1f?f0kkhs8f68cucjtt9

Brutal.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/jeremy-corbyn-allies-sabotaged-labour-in-campaign-and-fuelled-brexit_uk_576eb1b5e4b0d2571149bb1f?f0kkhs8f68cucjtt9

Brutal.