06-25-2016, 09:31 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-25-2016, 09:32 AM by APeacefulWarrior.)
I dunno... At this point, I'd give decent odds that Britain finds an excuse to back out of it. I mean, you've got the sheer amount of crap that went down yesterday -like the stock market and the Pound Sterling- as well as a lot of reason to think Scotland (and quite possibly Gibraltar and maybe North Ireland too) will leave the UK over this AND the near-universal opinion that Britain is doing something very very stupid. Plus Cameron saying "screw this" and announcing his resignation was basically the cherry on top.
Not to mention that -at least according to Brits on Reddit- a fair percentage of the Brexit crowd who weren't simply buffaloed by the tabloids actually thought they were playing a bluff, and that the EU would offer them even more-favorable deals to bribe them into staying. Which was probably true, given that the EU immediately released a press statement to the effect of "Bye-bye, door's to the left."
Basically, there has to be a significant chunk of the Brexit vote with serious buyer's remorse today.
Not to mention that -at least according to Brits on Reddit- a fair percentage of the Brexit crowd who weren't simply buffaloed by the tabloids actually thought they were playing a bluff, and that the EU would offer them even more-favorable deals to bribe them into staying. Which was probably true, given that the EU immediately released a press statement to the effect of "Bye-bye, door's to the left."
Basically, there has to be a significant chunk of the Brexit vote with serious buyer's remorse today.