A victory for ordinary people!

[Surferjet]

So happy.

[LaBelleOtero]

Oh fuck.... I didn't check news sites when I woke up, because I assumed this would be 'UKIP for No10' round 2.

Well, Boris Johnson as PM. Was he a good Mayor anyone?

[notgivingin789]

So David Cameron has resigned?

I don't have nothing more to say regarding that.

[LaBelleOtero]

It means we decide what's good for our country not Brussels.
Easiest thing in the world to understand.

Well, no. It means some Eton boy with no grasp of the lives of ordinary people will decide what's good for our country. People seem to think we've had some kind of revolution. We haven't. Cameron exits, Johnson enters, and his priority will be just the same - desperately pouring cash into the financial sector and wringing it out of the rest of us.

[TheRollingCrone]

France has just over taken our economy, we ain't 5th no more.

[eyebrowse]

Boris Johnson was not a good mayor. He concentrated on sound bites and then did little work as he was campaigning to get back into parliament and then for leave

[ArcheryAnnie]

"The pound losing against, well, everything."

The Financial Times has posted that. The. Financial. Times.

[jm90914]

LaBelle His crowning achievement as mayor was managing to take credit for the bike rental scheme which was actually a project his predecessor signed off on, and just happened to be completed when he became mayor.

Oh, and he approved the building of a cable car across the river that cost £60 million and absolutely no one uses.

That's about it.

He's got a damn clever PR team though, so if that's a positive you should get excited...

[ArcheryAnnie]

LaBelle Boris was a terrible mayor, and wasn't even full-time (despite drawing a full-time salary). He was also an MP (full salary) and although was technically no longer the editor of the Spectator (another very senior job he'd done while drawing a salary as an allegedly full-time MP), he continued to prolifically write on all sorts of things which were nothing to do with being a mayor.

[TheRollingCrone]

In lighter news Fox have just announced "The UK have voted to leave UN"

Well that cheered me up for 2 minutes

[gonetoseeamanaboutadog]

Farage has said it was a 'mistake' to promise that money saved by leaving the EU would be ploughed into the NHS.

And so those who voted for hope are shafted one expectation at a time.

[gonetoseeamanaboutadog]

Well, no. It means some Eton boy with no grasp of the lives of ordinary people will decide what's good for our country. People seem to think we've had some kind of revolution. We haven't. Cameron exits, Johnson enters, and his priority will be just the same - desperately pouring cash into the financial sector and wringing it out of the rest of us.

This.

[Surferjet]

BertrandRussell

Easiest thing in the world to understand

Not to me it isn't. Pretend I'm stupid. Give me an example of what you mean

I'm not getting into an argument with you BertrandRussell.
The people have spoken. They voted out. It's called democracy.
If you don't like it try North Korea ( as they say )

[ArcheryAnnie]

Surferjet are you going to hold the Leave campaign to all their promises, then? Because they started to wriggle out of them even before the result was officially called.

[saffynool]

You're 'not getting into an argument' because you have no fucking argument. Just soundbites and jingoism.

We are going to look back on today as a terrible, monumental fuck up. There is absolutely NOTHING to celebrate.

[BertrandRussell]

I well, I suppose if you were going to "take back control", having an unelected Prime Minister is the obvious place to start..........

[Beepie]

Surfer, "if you're not happy move to North Korea" is not a valid sort of response!

[HermioneJeanGranger]

We're getting a PM nobody voted for - sounds a bit like North Korea to me!

[Surferjet]

The dust isn't going to settle for weeks ArcheryAnnie so I'm not taking notes of everything that's being said in these first few hours.
But on a personal note, I've been called thick, stupid, told to fuck off, just because I exercised my legal right to vote, & yes, I'm really happy with the result, but that doesn't make me racist or thick, & it's attitudes like that that cause results like this! You can't keep bullying & belittling people ( did you see Will Self on C4 news a few nights ago? )
The way he dismissed the concerns his 'leave' colleague with a pompous wave of his hand. No wonder the elite have been told to go f**k themselves.

[parmalilac]

Some people who are up all night on Twitter hardly represent the 52% who voted leave ...

[Beepie]

I don't know. It's changed my opinions of some mumsnetters already.

I hope you're right surfer. The alternative is so fucking bleak. But can't you even admit there's a possibility you've got it wrong? Aren't you even a bit "shit!" about the real-life consequences it's having right now?

I'd love to be able to say that myself.

[TheRollingCrone]

surfer Mark Urban from Brussels had said milling around the word is the other 27 member states want to trigger article 50 straight away.

We don't get to decide this stuff anymore, we voted OUT

There may not be time for dust,markets,political parties or anything else to settle.

[ArcheryAnnie]

It doesn't make you racist or thick, I agree, Surfer - I have no idea what you are like because we haven't encountered each other before. But your motivations for voting leave are irrelevant, because it has handed power to people who are racist.

[FoxSticks]

Bollocks. I'm ordinary and devastated. Who in their right minds would trust Farage, Boris and Cheggers over every other party leader and world class business leaders. The whole thing is sickening.

[NancyDecca]

Oh, it'll be fine - someone will find the back of a fag packet somewhere to jot some policies down.

That said - I do absolutely understand the will of the people etc. Just wasn't my will.

[Surferjet]

Do any of you actually watch the news?
Aren't you listening to what Labour politicians are saying? They're saying that Labour failed their core voters and this is the price they've paid.
If you want to blame anyone for this 'leave' vote blame Tony Blairs government.