AIBU to be cheerful and optimistic about Brexit because....

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We had a record-breaking 72% of the population take part :)

Our sovereignty will be restored

The first General Election in decades that will truly be about how the country is governed

MPs will be directly held accountable

We can plan a proper strategy for immigration and allocate resources to avoid overloading services

We can have a fair immigration strategy

We can be more versatile and responsive to world economic changes

We can decide how to spend our national resources

House prices are projected to fall meaning more people will be able to first time buy

There will be downward pressure on prices of goods as import terms (we buy more in than we sell out) can be negotiated directly with UK

There will be inward investment as many manufacturers will prefer a UK base rather than their current EU base

What other positives are there?

I'm cheerful that Scotland and London are both trying to resoect their populations' votes to Remain.

Maybe I will move to London after all.

a leave vote will be more of the same delivered on a different plate.

Completely. The people who voted leave thinking this would help them with jobs/homes/money/frustrations are going to find that it doesn't. At all. It's a total fuck up. A culture of fear, hatred and blame has been created and whipped up into a frenzy.

...because it seems to have kicked off a motion of no confidence in Mr Corbyn.

Maybe London and Cambridge (highest vote for Remain apparently) can become independent with Scotland.....

I'm delighted it's kicked off a vote of no confidence in Jeremy. Frankly, he's a bloody disgrace. If a leader cannot get its party to provide viable opposition to opponents who are tearing themselves apart, they have absolutely NO RIGHT to be leader.

what t4 and georgetteheyers said

Yup. Corbyn has to go too. Chocolate teapot if I ever saw one. He needed to be decisive, one way or the other, and the country needs an actual opposition.

this is all getting a bit "night of the long knives" for me tbh.

There are millions of jobs at risk, £350 billion wiped off of UK economy by the morning and hundreds of thousands of Brots working in Eu are already jobless potentially. Congratulations for the sovereign UK without Scotland and Ireland too. Let's all now eat grass together, shall we? We manufacture that by tons,eh?

Who's going to negotiate all these brilliant replacement trade deals with the EU?

The thing about telling people/the EU to go fuck themselves, is we mustn't be surprised when people/the EU tell us to go fuck ourselves right back.

I think the EU won't do that, they have to consider all of their member states. Ireland relies on UK trade.

However Ireland may benefit, Morgan Stanley have just moved 2,000 jobs to Dublin and Frankfurt.

No confidence in Jeremy Corbyn, says who - not me.

The Blairites should be forced out.. They'll probably join the tory party where they belong

But smallfox, they also have to consider 'the EU' as a body. It is not in their interests to make leaving remotely attractive - I imagine we will be left with a choice between high tariffs + limited freedom of movement (both ways) or lower / in some cases zero tariffs but continued free movement.

And by the time it has been negotiated, a large number of large, mobile international companies will simply have migrated their workforce and offices elsewhere.

Morgan Stanley has begun to move 2000 jobs from London...

I do agree teacher..

A lot of the people who voted to leave will find themselves worse off as a result and wondering where the promises of the out campaign are.

BTW, If our debt ratings are downgraded that will mean less money for the NHS not more.

Do you have a link for this ItsAll , I know a few people who work for Morgan Stanley

It's naive to think the EU won't want to punish us & make an example of Britain.

todayitstarts its the breaking news on the bbc website

On this new stream at 1345 www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/business-36561095?ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_breaking&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=news_central

Airbus are also considering their options and the UKs credit rating has been downgraded...

I'd be careful about words such as "punish" I don't think that's the case at all.

However whatever agreement we come to with the EU will not be the "all the benefits none of the costs" agreement the Brexiteers hope for.

Absolutelty, small. As someone of the World at One was saying: 'There's no such thing as a free lunch'

I'd be careful about words such as "punish" I don't think that's the case at all.

I do. The EU will be very worried about other countries leaving too - they will need to make an example of the UK to discourage others. They have already said the article 50 thing should be done next week, not in 3 months time as they don't want to prolong uncertainty

Op, given the day's events, are you still happy about the outcome?

Thanks. And Fuck

I also think we will be punished.

Of course they're going to punish whatever bits of the UK leave.

They've already said to piss off sooner rather than later and they don't care how hard it is.

Our "unelected commissioner" (unelected, but appointed by the democratically elected UK governmemt) has been mover from the strategically useful position in charge of financial market policy.

He now has no portfoilio. So no influence at all.

We are already being sidelined in meetings and committees. We can spend two years negotiating our way out, but as far as the EU is concerned we are gone. Lame ducks.