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Originally Posted by Damien
Stock market is collapsing
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Last time I checked it was still above February levels.
Now we're going to have the remainers banging on about what a bad mistake it all is...
Every time something big happens markets fall then rise, the same with currency. My god it's happened often enough over the last decade or two that people really ought to now that by now.
What has happened here is that the unremitting diet of fear plus the succession of people like Obama telling the UK what to do has backfired massively. The campaign was badly handled from the start and Cameron ought to have known better. Unfortunately for him it's cost him his job and a place in history. If the remain campaign had at any time really acknowledged the genuine fears of the people about the EU's future direction I believe they'd have won. Instead they resorted to the fear and insults with people like Sadiq Khan indulging in personal attacks just days after he's been up their telling us all how politics needed to learn something from Jo Cox's death. These people will not learn. They happily peddle the sort of nastiness they claim to despise when it suits them and as a result, people have lost faith in their politicians.
As for Corbyn, he's been shown up to be a truly pathetic leader, virtually invisible during the UK's most important debate for decades. When it really mattered he didn't even have the courage of his convictions, deciding it was more expedient to go back on a career lifetime of anti-EU sentiment. A political rabbit caught in headlights.
What needs to happen now is that the result is accepted by all and those on the losing side to avoid talking the UK down and exacerbating what uncertainty will inevitably follow. If they're interested in the UK and its future they'll do just that, if they're not they'll continue talking us down, trying to make the worst happen just so they can say 'we were right'. The decision is made and whatever their view about anything else, anyone who has the UK's interests at heart will now do their best to make the most of what's happened. It'll be interesting to see who decides to take the other route and talk UK PLC down for no good reason.
With any luck there'll be change in the EU - if it doesn't follow now you have to ask just what it is going to take to get the Eurocrats to see sense.