to think the Remainers aren't going to take this lying down and we won't leave

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A million plus more people voted leave than remain but still over 16 million voted in. And many of the people this will affect - the under 18s - didn't get a say.

The majority of our elected representatives want us to remain as does our capital city.

The EU wants us to remain and once the leaders have stopped throwing their toys around they will realise they need to reform the EU and make changes that will keep UK and all the other eurosceptic people in.

Today has been a body blow for us remainers but, we're shot of Cameron, so we can re-group and start the fight to remain in the EU but with changes that much of Europe wants.

YABU.... We are leaving..... Stamping your foot and saying it's not fair will not change a thing. We are leaving, the result is fair.

I think hope you are right OP. We had a couple of to be sure, to be sure referendums over the years in Ireland and who knows hopefully soon we will get to devote on the referendum lunacy that was the abortion referendum. Referendums can be wrong, certainly I totally believe this one was and the abortion on in Ireland was horribly wrong.

I voted remain, but we have to stand by the result - that's democracy, no matter how much you wish it could be different.

I wish there was any way we could stay in but sadly I think there isnt now

I voted Remain and, like others, am very disappointed but we live in a democracy so there we go.

That said I think the next few months could be interesting, in how "Leave" becomes defined. Before now Boris has always been pro EU and there may be deals to be done to appease both sides without reneging on a Leave vote. I suspect Europe will panic as there are other Countries watching with interest, and possible offer up new deals - but it all depends on how a new Government is formed and who is on board.

Interesting times. .....

Reform from within? Not that old chestnut again. We've been in this sorry club for 40+ years and have never managed it yet. We were one voice in 28 - we had no say, we were just a cash cow.

We've voted to cut loose the dead weight of the EU, and there'll be others following us out before long. Bring it on.

Frankly, I'd like a 2/3 majority for major economy wrecking constitutional change. I still know people that didn't bother to vote yesterday as they thought remain was safe.

don't be so bloody silly

I was "Remain", I was really upset this morning, devastated even. I am now at acceptance stage, I will do whatever I can for the good of my country to make this the best possible result, even if it wasn't one I voted for.

I am sadly scavenging the news looking for positives.

So James what age is the cut off? 60? 50? 30? Or one year older than your current age? What about women or disabled? Would you prefer to to back to land owning men only?

I don't think this should have gone to a referendum, not because people are thick (after all, we trust them to vote in general elections - that is kind of what democracy is), but because there was no clear definition of what people were voting for.

We could get anything now: the UK surreptitiously rejoins a rebranded EU? The UK becomes a tax haven? We have another 4 years till a general election with actual manifestos. In the meantime we will have an unelected PM, interpreting the referendum as he/she see's fit and it's difficult to imagine how anyone can have confidence in the UK economy until the UK has sorted out what on earth it is going to do.

Due to turnout figures etc technically roughly 37% of the country voted us out. The rest either abstained or couldn't vote or voted remain.

I wish people would stop making ageist comments. There's a poll floating around on Facebook that people are quoting figures from - it was from a small sample of around 1600 people taken over a week ago. There was nothing on the ballot paper asking for age and no-one I know took part in an exit poll.

I voted to remain, but the most important thing for me is that we respect democracy. I want us to build a good future for this country.

In my view the Labour Party let their voters down badly and I am saddened by that as I believe more passion and explanation was needed. It will be important for Labour politicians to listen to what their constituents have said.

I'd like to see a legal challenge based on all the lies told by the leave campaign.

Democracy has failed. With so many people being lied to and manipulated. They will realise their mistake - too late. The working class will be stamped on by the rising right wing.

The majority of our elected representatives want us to remain

They represent the constituencies who voted leave.

as does our capital city.

So the rest of the country doesn't matter?

Last time I checked it's one person one vote.

Even if the leave campaign told lies, their more toxic members would still have been chuntering on for the next four years and it is likely that leave would have had a strong showing at the next general election, possibly giving Farage real power.

Maybe we have dodged a bullet? Maybe with the referendum out the way things will get better?

I'd like to see a legal challenge based on all the lies told by the leave campaign.

Oh grow up!

We have no choice about taking it, lying down or otherwise. The whole country is going to take it. Hard.

I'd like to see a legal challenge based on all the lies told by the leave campaign.

Did remain tell the complete truth then?

Reform from within? Not that old chestnut again. We've been in this sorry club for 40+ years and have never managed it yet. We were one voice in 28 - we had no say, we were just a cash cow. We've voted to cut loose the dead weight of the EU, and there'll be others following us out before long. Bring it on

My attitude exactly - although I do worry about whether this will actually go through, given the number of interested parties firmly on the gravy train and ominous comments about the poll being merely "advisory"

Those who hope for acceptance of promises that "it really will be different this time if you stay" would do well to remember the pre-referendum negotiations, where Cameron was sent home empty handed - just the latest of countless begging missions which came to nothing