BBC just announced DC maybe be about to resign

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Just announced on bbc new now

Everyone will be waiting for his speech

I think this was always the plan. Coward.

Pound crashed. He needed to leave for his sunny retirement before he lost more money. Britain just voted everyone for themself. Why the hell are people surprised when someone acts in that vein?

I'm still in shock other things will happen today, this will not just be the break up of the EU but the break up of Britain. Scotland and northern Ireland didn't vote for this. We will be worse of with out them.

I'm so fed up with the brexiters on fb going on about oh it's ok the pound has gone through the floor, oh it's ok Cameron has stepped down and instead of proper politics for the rest of the year it will be a stage for Boris and gove to battle it out over whose the biggest Tory right brexiter.

I felt genuinely sad when I heard his voice wobble as he was giving his speech.
What a day.

Good riddance frankly. I never thought he was anything but a PR boy playing games, grinning while people are driven to suicide.

So shocked and dismayed this morning that the vote has, pretty narrowly in my view, gone this way.

28% of electorate didnt vote. I know 72% turn out is considered good these days, but I still doubt whether the majority of people in UK really would want to leave?

Anyway, looks like thats whats happening - still so shocked

Also wondering if Boris will get his dream job as PM? Possibly the best option - part of me is quite fond of him. But at what cost to your country Boris?!

Cameron shouldn't have brought in a referendum - he bowed to the Tory sceptics and he should have held strong and not done it.

Of course he's resigning - he didn't think we should leave so why the hell should he sort the mess out afterwards?

Yep hes out. Off to look for a job at the nearest pig farm.

Absolutely Imperial. Very bad call to hold a referendum on this at all by DC, plus remain campaign never quite got the positive message across of benefits of membership did it?

Whole campaign on both sides was conducted in depressingly negative way. And this is the result

I'm with Imperial, it should never have happened.

I was quite happy when I heard, then I thought how fucking awful this could be for us after all.

So he's called for this referendum and then isn't even going to push the article 50 through?

I've a feeling we won't be leaving the EU. After all, they don't have to do they? The referendum was basically a massive poll of opinion. Or have I got that completely wrong?

No fizzy we don't have to leave, but it would be political suicide for a party to ignore the result and do their own thing.

Yes that's true. Looks like holding the referendum was career suicide for Dave. I don't think he ever truly believed leave would win. Not sure I did either. I didn't vote him in, never really liked the man but I'm not sure the other options for PM are much better!

OK people. Let's get past the shock and anguish, blame and panic before it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. A decision has been made that probably won't be implemented until 2019...Sterling is falling because the selfish b* capitalists who thought they could make a quick buck backed the wrong result and are now shorting currency to create volatility in the market so that they can make money. Can we not just take a moment to say what we would like for Britain's future rather than being so negative. That way maybe we can all put our minds and our will behind it to make it happen. I really wish that mumsnet.com/news/mums-launch-political-party … via @MumsnetTowers I really wish that this hadn't just been an April fool because then maybe people who cared about people would be running the country. I'll start...I want Britain to be a country where people choose to educate themselves, look after their neighbours and wider community and a free to speak their mind as long as they are willing to listen to the other side of the debate without resorting to insults and incivility.

75% of younger voters wanted to remain. The very people this decision will affect the most. If the voting age had been 16 not 18, as for the Scottish referendum, I wonder what would have happened? It was the older voters who swung it to leave.

So do you think that the voting age should be lowered to 16? After all at 16 you can serve your country in the armed forces, have children and go out to work (as long as your job includes further training as per the new remit re education until 18)

Don't blame him. Why should he clear up other people's mess? So the Leave voters can now enjoy their wonderful new lives under BoJo or Gove

How is this not his mess? This whole referendum is his mess.

It is odd that those voting to Leave are disenchanted with the London elite bossing them, but now they face the prospect of BJ who frankly isn't known much beyond the London elite, as his popularity lies in the Westminster and media bubble which is one and the same really.

I really would have rather had the PM and Chancellor stay on, and had we known they might have then left, that might have been another thing altogether. After all, they won the election on the basis of Cameron and Osbourne and Labour not only didn't come close, they've since got worse or at any rate even more unelectable.

Though had we known Cameron would resign, then you might have had a claim that they had 'fixed' the result by threatening to throw their toys out of the pram if they lost. Which certainly Cameron has, now, anyway.

I wonder if there are a million or so 16 to 18 year olds who could have swung it for Remain? My DD is 17 and thinks they should have had a vote on this.

I'd like Corbyn to go too, for his lukewarm and half arsed campaign.

I voted labour last election but I won't vote for him again, I am really annoyed with him.

I dread really to think who will be PM after Cameron - Boris I presume!

I hope Gove or Johnson get it as they are BOTH unelectable. ;o)

Yes, we didn't really hear much from Corbyn about why staying was crucial for country's well-being for so many reasons did we?

I don't know why not.

Remain campaign could definitely have been stronger overall.

Yeah, rats dessert sinking ships. Problem is he's the bloody rat that caused all this.
He'll go down as the worst pm in our history.
shame on him and all those who voted him in. Look what you have done, it isn't the leavers who have caused this.

Disgraceful .He gave us the referendum. He needs to stand and face the music!