Brexit: What have we done?!?!

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The British pastime of sitting around and making fun of just how dumb and stupid Americans are is a pastime in which they can no longer partake. After voting to Exit, Adam from Manchester right there on live television on the BBC said, "I'm a bit shocked to be honest. I'm shocked that we actually voted to leave. I didn't think that was going to happen. My vote – I didn't think was going to matter too much because I thought we were just going to remain. The David Cameron resignation has blown me away to be honest. I think the period of uncertainty we're going to have for the next few months has been magnified, so I'm quite worried."

This was the biggest vote Brits are ever likely to cast, and those who couldn’t be bothered to do their homework before taking the test learned a hard lesson about preparation.

About eight hours after the polls closed, Google reported that UK searches for “What happens if we leave the EU?” had more than tripled to become the #1 asked question on the search engine. Google Trends also reported that the #2 question was "What is the EU?" Ah, those wacky British millennials.

Mandy Suthi, a first generation Brit of immigrants, and immigration being the prime mover of the Brexit referendum, stated, "I wish I could go to the polling station and vote to Remain. Obviously the facts are coming in, our eyes are open to what is happening." Her whole family voted to leave.

The morning after the vote, Chloe Tweeted - "Thanks for screwing over the younger people of this country who couldn't vote..." Chloe is a 22 year old student who voted to Exit, by the way.

Aimee Horton, a 20 year old student with no kids Tweeted, "Can't comprehend that the older generation has been allowed to dictate the future of my kids." Aimee with two ees voted to Exit, by the way.

JK Rowling of Harry Potter fame isn't exactly a millennial, and voted to stay, and ripped every Brexiter a new one calling them all, each and every one of them, "a bunch of mini-Trumps" because, apparently, calling them mini-Hitlers wouldn't be insulting enough.

The foreign-born population of the UK has doubled in the last 20 years, from 1993 to 2014. That's the impetus behind the referendum. And it's why Trump is going to be the next president. People are fed up with the establishment.

In the UK, though, they're also a little fed up with some of the rules being placed on them by Brussels that apply to the entire EU. Things like children under 8 cannot be allowed to blow up a balloon without adult supervision. Bananas and cucumbers are to be "free of abnormal curvature" and are not to be sold to the public if they are too bendy. Vacuum cleaners with motors higher than 1600 Watts had to go, because they were unsafe, and children under age 12 cannot operate a vacuum cleaner of any wattage.
 

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I read an article of the over 2 million immigrants ...they are something like 60 % better educated then the Brits...they are legal, work and pay taxes and contribute to the country, unlike here with our illegals that contribute little...
Kudos to Britain..they are free of EU control...
Britain doesn't need a wall...it has the channel....:)
 
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It was interesting how many got out and voted when the weather was so bad. Going to be an interesting year that is for sure and wondering what the fall out will be.
 

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And it's why Trump is going to be the next president. People are fed up with the establishment

Trump agrees and wasted no time chiming in via email...


Last night UK voters shocked the world.

I'm sure you saw the news. Voters in the United Kingdom chose to leave the flawed and failing European Union and reassert control over their borders, politics and economy, taking a brave stand for freedom and independence. It's been dubbed "Brexit" in the media.

These voters stood up for their nation – they put the United Kingdom first, and they took their country back.

With your help, we're going to do the exact same thing on Election Day 2016 here in the United States of America.

I am fighting to upend the failed Big Government status quo in Washington, so that Americans can start believing in the future of our country again. And if elected President of the United States, I will strengthen our ties with a free and independent Britain.

Will you stand with me at this critical time?

Yesterday UK voters exercised their right to self-determination for all the world to see. And today, our friends across the Atlantic are looking forward to a return to greater freedom and a better future for their children and grandchildren.

Voters here face the same choice on Election Day.

The political elites didn't see this coming. Wall Street and the media didn’t have a clue. And they want to believe just as badly that we cannot win in November.

Let's send another shockwave around the world. Let's take back our country from the corrupt career politicians and put Americans first. Let’s re-declare our independence.

Please stand with me today to reclaim freedom from the corrupt Washington establishment and Make America Great Again.

Thank you.

Donald J. Trump
Candidate for President of the United States
 

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So will we be in the same situation of Trump wins?

1.6 million Brits signed a petition for another E.U. referendum. They are trying to say whoops just joking we wanted to send a clear message but we do not like the results.
 
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May go a touch deeper initially. Watch carefully to see what Scotland, Denmark, and Sweden do. With all the other stuff aside, the Euro by itself is the biggest problem. Another one of those, follow the money.
 
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Considering Britain was never 100% in the EU.... They never did adopt the Eurodollar and kept their own currency
 

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Considering Britain was never 100% in the EU.... They never did adopt the Eurodollar and kept their own currency

They also never went whole hog into the metric system; speed limits are in miles, beer is sold in pints, and they also have, if I'm not mistaken, 10-quart gallons :confused:
 

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May go a touch deeper initially. Watch carefully to see what Scotland, Denmark, and Sweden do. With all the other stuff aside, the Euro by itself is the biggest problem. Another one of those, follow the money.
It's definitely about the money. The areas of the UK that voted Remain just happen to be the areas that received the highest amount of financial welfare freebies from the EU.

Did you know that the majority of the members of the European Commission (the administration, mid-level, and other non-elected positions) draw a higher salary than the PM of England?

And by treaty, the European Parliament can only meet in full session in Strasbourg, France (because, you know... France... la ti da). But most of the EU’s operation is in Brussels. So one week a month, the whole thing - legislators, support staff, lobbyists, journalists and everyone else, 10,000 people in all - travels five hours to Strasbourg to set up camp for a week. It’s a like having Congress in Washington DC, but once a month, in order to pass any legislation, that have to pack everything up and drive to Brooklyn to do it. But unlike Congress, the European Parliament can’t actually propose legislation, it can only approve legislation that comes from the non-elected European Commission. The cost of maintaining both parliamentary seats is about $200 million a year.
 
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1.6 million Brits signed a petition for another E.U. referendum.
It appears that just a smidgen of those signatories might be a little suspect. Nearly 24,000 people signed from North Korea, a nation virtually without Internet access, and more than 39,000 signatures came from Vatican City, which only has a population of 800 people.
 

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It appears that just a smidgen of those signatories might be a little suspect. Nearly 24,000 people signed from North Korea, a nation virtually without Internet access, and more than 39,000 signatures came from Vatican City, which only has a population of 800 people.


Looks like a plan out of the democrats playbook.:D
 

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I read an article of the over 2 million immigrants ...they are something like 60 % better educated then the Brits...they are legal, work and pay taxes and contribute to the country...
Do you have a link to that article? It would be interesting to see the details, especially the places from where these highly educated immigrants came and where they got their education.
 

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You can see it mapped out and broken down here: Mapped: How Britain has the most university educated migrants in the EU

The Telegraph is very unabashedly one-sided on Brexit and is totally against immigrants, so grain of salt stuff there. Might want to check out this, too: Immigrants Better Educated Than UK-Born, Unlikely to be Unemployed / Sputnik International

In any case, it shouldn't really be all that surprising that of the 2 million or so immigrants working in the UK, a very high percentage of them have university degrees because they came looking for high paying jobs which required university degrees, and that a higher percentage of those immigrants will have university degrees than does the working native UK population as a whole.
 

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Also in the closing minutes of the trading day on Wall Street the market spiked by over 250 points before the election..., someone put down some big money ... To cause that spike ....
 

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So will we be in the same situation of Trump wins?

1.6 million Brits signed a petition for another E.U. referendum. They are trying to say whoops just joking we wanted to send a clear message but we do not like the results.


I certainly hope we find out. I am interested to see how all the American non-entrepreneurial types handle it, you know the ones whom are content to have big brother or, big sister managing their lives. Prolly be a bit of a shock.
 
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