UK Votes to Leave the EU

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I am shocked, but also very happy. Wow.

Funny how those preaching tolerance and unity before the vote are being anything but now. If you don't want a fractured population, stuck it up and make the best of it. Which is exactly what Brexiters would have been told if the situation were reversed.

Just woken up to this news; please someone tell me I'm still actually sleeping and that this is a nightmare.

York was Leave 42.0% and Remain 58.0%
Rather precise voting there and over 1hr 45 mins late in delivering

No its a wonderful real life nightmare member joking by the way you have my sympathies as a remainer

Just woken up to this news; please someone tell me I'm still actually sleeping and that this is a nightmare.
Nope. I keep pinching myself and it is wonderful.

This will change Britain for the better.

The people have rebelled. As Caroline Lucas says the people have voted against parties that represent 98% of the MPs in Westminster.

kinkytoes hear hear !! They are behaving disgustingly and did so in the elections veen so scathing and mean to Brexit saying the win was there see page one of this thread notice the original OP has dissapeared too

The university cities that were happy to take 'EU money' (i.e. UK tax payer's money) to perpetuate pro-EU propaganda are REMAIN.

That money could - and will now be - much better used than paying for EU flattery.

Well when the shite hits the fan can't blame the 5% that are the immigrants !!!

Nobody is blaming immigrants. Immigration will no longer be an issue when we have replaced the current self-selecting, uncontrolled EU migration that discriminates horribly on nationality.

Now we have regained sovereignty we can make our own laws to suit OUR country and not a host of poor EU countries that are unable or unwilling to reform themselves and who refused to allow us to operate our own migration policy

A lot of nasty people coming out of the woodwork on MN, very similar to the election when the vote didn't go their way.

Did anyone say they were actually going to reduce immigration, did they? It is just there will be more immigration from outside the EU.

Britain? What Britain?
"Sinn Féin’s declaration that the British government has “forfeited any mandate” to represent the economic or political interests of Northern Ireland is a restatement of party policy.

Martin McGuinness, the Sinn Féin deputy first minister of Northern Ireland, has already called for a referendum on the region’s future within the UK in the event of a Brexit vote."

Tell me about them ;-) There were many evenings when I was the primary recipient of their abuse .

I think MNHQ did a pretty reasonable job of moderating these EU discussions even if I didn't always agree with their decisions. They did not have an easy job.

Some vile posts on here this morning. Leave votes are thick, stupid, morons with unimportant little jobs? It's the working class people who are finally taking some control of the country.

It's going to be a uncertain time but I really feel this will be the best thing for Britain in the long term.

I feel very very sad. I voted leave, so I am pleased about that, but so terribly sad with all the hate being spouted.

I am devasted.

I just bought a house in the UK. I can't just leave now.

York was Leave 42.0% and Remain 58.0%
Rather precise voting there hmm and over 1hr 45 mins late in delivering

I dread telling my children, they will be so worried and I won't know what to say to allay their fears 

Are you for real???
You've been watching / allowing your children to watch too much Independence Day movies. Fucking hell woman, you tell them that our lives move on. Why on earth have you allowed your children to become so frightened about this?

The nation has spoken. Stop whining. Of course there will be uncertainty- what else could there be. But an important principle has been decided. Even inPrimrose Hill, dahlings.

Yh why terrify your children with lies and stories of doom and terror they shouldnt know anything about this no child should

That surely depends on the age of the children. If they're 4 and 6, then OK. If they're 14 and 16, however, then frankly I'd be deeply concerned if they knew nothing about the subject.

I'm loving how all of you "leave" lot have nothing else to say but "it will be uncertain. Here's a few facts for you to consider - the £350m that goes out won't exactly exist anymore if the UK's economy is fucked for the next decade or so - and probably past that. Think about this - your main leaders are Farage and Boris Johnson. They have no plans for leaving the EU what so ever. We are talking about two racust, xenophobic men, that you have pretty much decided were right to "take back control". What control???? The pound has plummeted to a 30 year low in the space of hours and the refferendum isn't even officially over yet? Do you not see where this is all heading? It's not UNCERTAIN, the future is very CERTAIN - you have voted thinking you'd take control and have more money to spend on the uk BUT IF THERE IS NO ECONOMY (because it will crash, badly), THERE WON'T BE ANY MONEY TO SPEND! I just wish people would see what you've done!

Northern Ireland, of course, isn't in Britain, but as a constituent part of the UK and with it being a pan UK vote they are being pulled out of the EU too.

So with a majority remain in Northern Ireland and Scotland, the Nationalists in Northern Ireland and the Scottish Nationals are murmuring about referenda.

I don't see how David Cameron can stay much longer. His election was not based on a remain or leave vote. Article 50 should be invoked on foot of the referendum.

Have a anon2309

It's the working class people who are finally taking some control of the country.

Spot on.

I campaigned on the streets for the full referendum period and also did widespread leafletting.

I'll tell you who voted OUT because I met them -

The elderly were still angry at being lied to back in 1975 that they were only joining a trade organisation

The mothers who could not get hospital appointments for their sick children

The people of all ages who could not understand why, in the 5th largest economy in the world, they had to wait 4 weeks for a GP appointment

The poor, even trade unionists who did not believe the EU-is-responsible-for-workers-rights lie

Those who knew (and not many did) about TTIP and worried about the efect on the NHS

The people who could not get social hosuing

Small tradsemen who were being undrecut by cheap migrant labour

Small shopkeepers trying to survive under the unnencessary burden of EU regulation

Students (yes, young people) who found themselves in open competition with EU students funded by UK grants for higher education opportunities

The teacher (yes, teacher) worn out trying to teach more and more recently arrived children who did not speak English with no extra funds available to do so

I could go on.

Every person had a reason - you may consider valid or not - for want to Leave.

Cameron totally underestimated the loathing of the EU out there. But I doubt he's ever met many 'ordinary' people. And every time 'crisis what crisis' Cameron opened his mouth to deny what they were seeing with they own eyes they became angrier and angrier.

And to compound his stupidity Cameron and Osborne stood their grinning like Cheshire cats as invited national leader after leader ran our country down.

I chart our victory from the comment a sneering Obama told us we were at the back of the queue. The response on the street at our next outing was absolutely overwhelming - at the same time that Sky was reporting that Obama had nailed it for Remain. And we had to sit an listen to this waddle

Nobody puts Britain at the back of the queue.