After that 11th hour assassination of the pro-remain MP, I was absolutely certain that it would generate so much "sympathy" towards the EU bootlickers that there was no way they would lose.
And yet it DID pass, albeit narrowly (around 52%-48%). Still, this was a BIG upset given what the polls showed last week. I'm pleasantly surprised that douchebag Cameron resigned so quickly. UK politicians at least see the writing on the wall when they've failed their party. If it was America, Obama would just sneer at the outcome and claim the poll question was worded poorly and demand another vote in a few months, and keep on having referendums until the vote goes his way (and once that happened, they'd declare the results are set in stone and "Settled law")
Agree that Boris Johnson might be an even bigger CINO than Cameron, even though Johnson was on the right side on this one. I figured Johnson was ineligible to be PM since he was the Mayor of London, but I googled it and discovered he was just elected to parliament last month. Darn. That clown (especially with his goofy hair) reminds me of a British "Harry Dunne" from Dumb & Dumber.
I actually had no dog in this fight, but seeing Obama was pushing the Remain option so hard, I had to hope the Leave campaign would humiliate him. Had Obama taken the opposite view and DEMANDED the UK leave the EU, I would have probably sided with the Remain camp just to spite him.
Polls were tight as drum down the stretch actually, which surprised me, initially I thought there was no way this would pass. For a while it looked like leave had the edge. But after that false flag murder, I was also pessimistic. Bookmakers, it seemed, never thought it would pass for a minute. What’s interesting is Wales voted leave, and a majority of Labour-controlled local councils in England. Labour voters were very divided over this, in contrast to party officials. All the highest areas of unemployment (outside of Scotland) voted leave.
Their certainly are benefits to staying in the EU, trade and travel are easier. But I have to say the negatives seem to far outweigh any positives. There are several UK freepers here and I believe they unanimously feel strongly that leaving is necessary to have any chance of Britian remaining a free country, just imagine if socialists in Canada and Mexico got a say in how we run the US. Possible Turkish entry into the EU was a prime concern. The EU seems more likely than not to fail entirely in the long term. Drawbacks to leaving were vastly blown out of proportion as an election tactic. I hate to agree with something Boris Johnson said (London has a new Muslim Labour Mayor BTW) but calling it a “noble idea” that isn’t working is spot on. If there were no socialist idiots and throngs of third worlders looking to invade the west, I’m sure it would work great, but there are, so it doesn’t.
Of course Obama was for them staying, the entire global elite was, there was no chance it would be otherwise.
I have never seen such whining as over this result. So many tweets from people saying they’re ashamed to be British, “damn you old people, 70% of us under 25 idiots wanted to stay” (a LOT of that, they sound ready to execute anyone over 50) whine, whine, whine, “give us a revote”, “London should secede from England”, ashen faced Tony Blair looking he just lost a child or something. These people are drunk on their own koolaid.
i'm with you on the "humiliation to OBama" -- it almost made me push to the "Leave" camp just to tweak his nose. Obamalamadingdog has really failed -- every time he draws a red line, it's promptly crossed. Our "Nobel peace prize winner...."