Great article, Queens. I voted Leave, there was no other vote for me. I think the Remainers are short-sighted and, if they could have, would have continued as they are with no thought for anybody else. We all ultimately do what fits our own position better, remainers included and as the article says, immigration fine and dandy for those wanting cheap new nannies and restaurants; not so easy alongside those competing for jobs that pay a living wage though.
Maastricht has indeed been a clear indictment of massive scope creep and it's not working.
I believe that we have the opportunity now to put the UK back together, not to be a 'little England' as per the article, but NOT to be a 'little Europe'. That's not what we are as a nation.
In a way I think it's really positive that our politicians are now 'hands off'. This doesn't need a knee-jerk response now, it needs proper and careful handling so that we don't give up what we wanted. There can't be another referendum; to do so would be to make any further election results null and void also.
This petition that's doing the rounds; some people are so terrified that they're willing to accept signatures from just about anywhere to overthrow the result. What does that say about them? The signatures are unverifiable, they could be from leavers but are far more likely from remainers. What's the point of remainers signing a petition that ostensibly is being touted as one to draw attention to regretful votes? It's a nonsense and even many remainers won't sign it.
The insults on MN and elsewhere have been vile and I can't think the same of some posters that I thought a lot of previously; it goes beyond fear of the unknown when you have to denigrate and demean people, calling them racist, ignorant, stupid, thick and anything else they can think of. We should ALL be calling racism when we see it, it's not new - what did we do before last Thursday for goodness sakes?
I was watching "A Few Good Men" the other day and the supercilious Colonel played by Jack Nicholson said to Tom Cruise, "You just weakened a country today, that's all you did.". Jack was wrong. It takes courage to stand up for what you believe in.