Today is the first day of the rest of our lives

One immediate benefit is that exports will be cheaper, imports more expensive, that will be good for the Country, and will help pay back some of our national debt.

Exports would be cheaper were it not for tariffs, you mean…

The backtracking by the leave party already started.

“It was a mistake to claim 350m more could be spent on NHS”

Says farage on live tv

It’s as much a protest vote against the absence of honesty/trust as it is an EU one.

So half the country have voted to **** everything up as a bit of a protest vote?

They’re even more retarded than I thought.

Guess we now await to hear when the scottish referendum is ?

The cost of imports is now up by 6% !… The pound has just lost 6% since opening. Still this was what the people wanted.!! Every pension scheme in the Uk will get a battering over next few weeks.. but this is actually a really good thing 😀

and more than half the morons in the UK chose that.

Actually – just over a third of the electorate chose this new direction for the whole country.

I wonder what we remove WRT EU regs and rules?

Will bananas now be any shape they want? what about the passports and all those quick EU passports check machines at all the UK airports??

so much has been put in place, some/most of it good, it would be a shame to see all the good things go now. 🙁

Baldrick, if you ever where to come up with a cunning plan, about now would be a great time for it..

The removal of EU regulations was discussed by leave during the campaign, essentially most standards and red tape are fixed by international trade agreements to ensure people get what they expect.

Only thing they can really adjust is employment rights and benefits.

And I guess its time to start thinking about re-kindling my desire to move home to South Africa..

I’m not angry, just very, very, very disappointed.

Only thing to do now is look forward and try to find ways to make the best of the “challenges and opportunities”. Recriminations and blank g are a waste of effort.

Look forward to seeing all those in Lincolnshire who voted to leave rushing to take their fruit picking jobs back from those nasty immigrants.

Well that’s the result. Now they just need to come up with a plan as to how the hell they do what they promised. Or like most politicians they’ll do enough of it to serve their own interests and leave the disillusioned disaffected people who voted for this to fend for themselves.

So in summary a bunch of lying toe rags who don’t understand what soverienty means have convinced about a third of the uk electorate to ruin Britain for everyone. Well done, have a slow hand clap from me.

Only thing they can really adjust is employment rights and benefits

with the Tories in that means any benefits will be swiftly removed 🙄

Because going on strike to protect your pension/job/existing contract/working conditions/children’s education causes disruption don’t you know, and that is wholly unacceptable. 👿

Really? Only people accountable are the electorate. Reap what you sow.

And with relatives in South Africa, no **** way would I go there!

Look forward to seeing all those in Lincolnshire who voted to leave rushing to take their fruit picking jobs back from those nasty immigrants.

This is where there is confusion/little direction. Nobody has said they will be kicking anyone out who is already here and if they do it will probably be years away before some criteria is put in place, administered etc,.

The reality is the same number of immigrants will remain here, we will have less money to due recession and the “£350MM” spent on EU each week will seem irrelevant.

“More likely from the educated / degree-holding part of the electorate who apparently have voted for remain on the whole.”

I don’t see how this is a useful attitude. Am I supposed to post degree certs. on here to have the right to an opinion?

coconut – Member
I would love to see Spain close its borders to the fat british chavs that drink all day on the Costas, France to start shooting booze cruize runs vans and Italy to ban Pizza & wine exports….

I know quite a number of retired ex-pats in Spain. To a man they voted Leave.

I do not understand their reasoning. Now their pensions have plummeted, and how long will they be tolerated in Spain?

So Dave is going, Corbin is likely to be forced out. General election before Christmas?

In Spain they’ll be tolerated as long as they can afford the taxes and health care insurance.

So Dave is going, Corbin is likely to be forced out. General election before Christmas?

More likely blood bath tory leadership election (thank god I only have to live with that and not choose between the options they’ll put forward) causing more market woes. Gove or Boris to succeed Cameron over summer and run the country to its knees till 2020.

Best (I) can hope for is we’re slow in enacting article 50, the rest of the EU is given to a random act of kindness rather than making an example of us and, come 20 we have an election fought between remain and leave mps rather than labour /conservative and sing the error of our ways we elect a cross party remain coalition which manages to get us back in then stagnate government for five years.

It won’t happen though.

I have zero expectation that the rest of the EU will make this easy on us and fully expect no stay of execution on the two year timetable for article 50.

I feel genuinely sick from this.

n+1

I’m really surprised by all this. This is what happens when you let the whole country decide on something this important. I don’t think there was enough focus on what’s good about the EU. Working in an education establishment everyone with an ounce of intelligence and reasoning was ‘in’, anyone that I spoke to who was out just seemed to focus on, immigrants or ‘we won the war’ and wouldn’t listen to anything else.

This can’t be good for our economy short or long term, I hope I’m wrong. But, I’d just like to ask all those who voted ‘out’ what’s so different for them today? .. Er, weaker pound, political instability, possible price rises, wage freezes, economic downturn, deeper recession, Boris for Prime Minister … Thankyou!

Balance of trade was -£3294m in April. With firms relocating to Europe we’ll have even less to export. A cheap pound won’t lead to an export-led boom it will lead to recession, inflation and increased austerity. On top of that, pensions and savings will be screwed. Money will be made, however, it’s not likely to be by us.
At least we can console ourselves with a bent banana.

One of the lads I work with just explained his vote to leave as “I can’t vote in favour of something which I know nothing about” my brain hurts, which along side the sick feeling in my stomach is going to make me very unproductive today.

The Scots now have a straight choice between being part of the UK, or being part of Europe. That’s an absolute no-brainer for them, particularly as the EU will give them a good deal to stay in/rejoin.

What a load of crap. Scotland would have to apply to join and our economic position places us in a very weak position of negotiation. I can’t see that application being accepted but, if it is, there is nothing to suggest it will be on favourable terms.

so now time to deal with it

How are YOU going to deal with it?

How are YOU going to try and shore up the nose-diving economy?

How are YOU going to help the people whose jobs will be lost?

Deal with it my arse. Just hope you don’t have to.

Leave won. They made some massive promises to get that win (or led through their arse depending).

I only hope to a God I don’t believe in that they can deliver what they promised.

Unfortunately I think my hope will be in vain. I’ll be delighted to be proved wrong.

To me it’s a victory for bigotry, Daily Fail readers and the old 😐

Leave won by deliberately lying and have admitted it only HOURS after the result.

Can we somehow invalidate the result because it was based on false premises? Legal challenge?

All this “hope house prices crash so I can come back here and buy a house in the fall out” pi££es me off.

I had to save and do the right thing to buy a house, how does that help me and anyone else who’s bought a house recently if property prices crash and we’re all in negative equity? You think it’s the right thing to pick through the spoils of those who’ve had their houses repossessed and get a cheap deal on something the previous owners got chucked out of!

Sadly, I think that will not happen. The only thing that will show up from this is a failure in the new Conservative leader as he takes the fall for the messing up the negotiations and the subsequent return to 70s politics as Labour sweep in at the next general election.

War in Europe within a decade. The first [economic] shots are already being fired.

Leave won.

They made some massive promises to get that win (or led through their arse depending).

I only hope to a God I don’t believe in that they can deliver what they promised.

Unfortunately I think my hope will be in vain. I’ll be delighted to be proved wrong.

It begins…

On the bright side….

Donald Trump is in Scotland today.
We could ask him for advice about building a wall…….

I think there’s a bit too much doom and gloom here. Yes it was the wrong decision but reading some comments here you’d think we’re about to go to war with Europe. We’re (for now at least…) the 5th biggest economy in the world, we’re not going to suddenly turn into Greece. Yes there’s going to be a short-term financial hit that we could do without but even now the FTSE is starting to recover from the huge drop this morning.
I actually think the mid-long term impact will be pretty small, both for the UK economy and for our standing in the world (we aren’t leaving the UN and are still a member of the security council etc.).
The main risk is how crap our politicians are at negotiating. Added to that the speculation that remaining EU countries won’t want us to leave without a bit of pain to discourage other referendums mean we could in the mid-term end up with some poor deals but that will get corrected in time.

Trump on tv…

He says “it’s a great thing, they took back their country” what a di&k.

What a

Young guy on tv who voted leave said he did so because it means we can open up trade with the rest of the world and he can now get a pay rise if we leave the eu….! What the fu£is that about……?

Seems anyone interviewed who voted leave is surprised that they won and doesn’t know what to do/ say/ will happen now…. Suggests they haven’t given it much thought perhaps….?

We’re (for now at least…) the 5th biggest economy in the world,

Still time to edit.

Britain has lost its triple a credit rating as of 6am. Off to a good start then.

Edit. Misread, it’s expected to hasn’t yet.
That’s Standard & Poor, I believe, and they don’t, as I recall, have a good track record on getting their forecasts right, and neither do the likes of Goldman Sachs.

burko73 – Member
All this “hope house prices crash so I can come back here and buy a house in the fall out” pi££es me off.

I had to save and do the right thing to buy a house, how does that help me and anyone else who’s bought a house recently if property prices crash and we’re all in negative equity? You think it’s the right thing to pick through the spoils of those who’ve had their houses repossessed and get a cheap deal on something the previous owners got chucked out of!
Been there before, back in the 90’s, everything recovered, and that’s what’ll happen this time.
When John Major’s government crashed out of the ERM all of the same dire forecasts were being made, the markets dropped, then recovered quickly, and things improved afterwards.