Wow, Britain votes to leave EU...

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Gold shot up $100. Asain markets closed due to massive sell-off. Dow futures down 600 already
 
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and our closest ally is about to tumble down the world ladder.

Scotland is going to secede to join the EU. Irish reunification is a legitimate possibility. Poor England & Wales are going to be left holding the bag.
 
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Hope you boys and girls be liquid.

In the near future it'll be :

"Buy, Mortimer, buy!!!"


 

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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Democracy does not work.

Letting people decide policy with referendums is a stupid way to run a government.
 

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so letting a few decide for you is a better idea. moron. dictatorships, monarchies worked so brilliantly. let the people decide their own fate. globalistic ******** whose markets feed off cheap labor from third world countries, child labor in most cases to benefit those making the decisions. stock market apologist can suck it. the only sell offs are those looking for the opportunity to benefit after the fact and those that are afraid they are going to lose their foothold in poor third world countries at the expense of the middle class working class peoples of these countries who used to be proud of what they built, what they created. instead are apologist for what we built and let these liberals guilt us in giving up our freedoms. to hell with globalism. national pride is what we should be about. good for them for standing up.
 

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Overblown reactions. In the short term, my Au gains offset market losses. OK. Life goes on.
 

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and our closest ally is about to tumble down the world ladder.

Scotland is going to secede to join the EU. Irish reunification is a legitimate possibility. Poor England & Wales are going to be left holding the bag.
Not really. Scotland & N. Ireland are drags on England economy (Scot GDP/person = 17K pound/yr. All of Britain around 22K/pounds including the Scots.). Scots are malcontents that don't appreciate what they got. England should wish them goodbye. Irish unification was going to happen sooner or later cause the Catholics there out birth the Protestants. So may happen soon vs. in 25-50 years.
 
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Not really. Scotland & N. Ireland are drags on England economy (Scot GDP/person = 17K pound/yr. All of Britain around 22K/pounds including the Scots.). Scots are malcontents that don't appreciate what they got. England should wish them goodbye. Irish unification was going to happen sooner or later cause the Catholics there out birth the Protestants. So may happen soon vs. in 25-50 years.
Where are you getting those stats? N Ireland's GDP/capita is low (but still higher than Wales'), but Scotland is as high as anywhere in England besides Greater London itself

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countries_of_the_United_Kingdom_by_GVA_per_capita
 

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So you exclude London from England? LOL. Wales has too few people to affect anything - except the Euro Cup. BTW, I was talking GDP, not the stat you picked.
o_O GVP is used as the regional equivalent of GDP...

England: 24.1k per capita
Scotland: 22.0k per capita
N Ireland: 17.9k per capita
Wales: 16.9k per capita
 

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People who voted for exit tended to be anti-immigrant and (oddly) outside of London. Odd because most immigrants happen to be in London. Pro-Exit also tended to be poorer and worse educated. Sounds like they voted with their pockets, which is good,right? Not really. What seems to be a major contributing factor is how many empty houses a worker passed in the day. IE, English towns are emptying. And English towns are emptying because factory jobs are going elsewhere. The trouble is that leaving the EU won't bring them back. And EU goods are going to be more expensive after exit due to tariffs that England is no longer immune to. And if an English firm wants to sell into EU markets, their goods are going to have to meet those onerous EU regs anyway. Bexit is a symbolic gesture with real consequences.



And about those immigrants. The ones connected to Brexit were European. The ones UKIP and their lot find most objectionable -- Asian and African -- aren't connected to Brexit.

At least previous Brtisih labor upheavals inspired Mark Knopfler:

Why Aye Man
(the Youtube tag wrongly says it's Dire Straits. It's from a solo record)

 

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Fear will always eventually win. It's the primary driving force in humans.

Whether it's fear of the "other" (immigration), terrorism, health or losing your job. It breeds suspicion, hate and isolationism, all cloaked as nationalism.

Did fear drive the 13 colonies to declare independence, or a desire to cobtrol their own destiny?

Hope and change brother!
 

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Fear will always eventually win. It's the primary driving force in humans.

Whether it's fear of the "other" (immigration), terrorism, health or losing your job. It breeds suspicion, hate and isolationism, all cloaked as nationalism.

Then you've got vote herding treasonist that won't enforce law and want open borders....... All
Cloaked as " the good guy".
 

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Then you've got vote herding treasonist that won't enforce law and want open borders....... All
Cloaked as " the good guy".
whilst enjoying the fruits of what this country has harvested. There are crackhead grandchildren waiting for their inheritance with more self-awareness.
 
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Historic decision.
What it shows is that the working people are tired of being used by the political class for profits while the workers pay taxes and get nothing.

The EU is dying and if GB had stayed, all those Syrian immigrants would be coming to England unrestricted. They estimated 150,000 a year with no paperwork just crossing borders in name only.

All those preaching doom for the banks need to learn a history lesson. The banks can take your money, steal your house and make business decisions based on greed and they will be bailed out.

Just how many workers in GB give a **** about the Bank of England? 0

Unless your very well off the normal person can't even buy a house in London. Their all bought up by the Chinese, Saudias, or some rich immigrant who bought his way to freedom.
 

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Fear will always eventually win. It's the primary driving force in humans.

Whether it's fear of the "other" (immigration), terrorism, health or losing your job. It breeds suspicion, hate and isolationism, all cloaked as nationalism.


I learned, long ago, hate just needs the tiniest justification to flourish. And those who thrive in it will fight to then bitter end to defend their hatred.
 

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Unless your very well off the normal person can't even buy a house in London. Their all bought up by the Chinese, Saudias, or some rich immigrant who bought his way to freedom.


I'm not sure what you're advocating here? A return to Smoot-Hawley protectionism? Lenin's "smash the state"? 19th century agrarianism?

"Capitalists chase profits. News at 10."

I've just read that there are voices in Cornwall -- one of the bastions of Leave -- demanding that the UK government replace the subsidies that they [Cornwall] had gotten from the EU. And the UKIP leader has been confessing that maybe he overstated by a wee bit the cost of remaining in the EU.

The English had the spectacle of the leaders of both major parties -- sneer-at-the-poor David Cameron and old-fashioned-commie Jeremy Corbyn -- both supported Remain. Cameron has resigned and Corbyn -- who had few friends before -- will probably be replaced. Now, there will be another Scottish independence referendum that's expected to result in leaving. And the strong possibility that Northern Ireland will leave as well. The only sure bet is that the Reality Principle ("the world is independent of my will") will find few friends.
 

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