And that will cause all the resentment and friction that the remain camp wanted to blame on the "xenophobic leavers".
No. What causes friction is being lied to and ignored by politicians.
The flow of cheaper labour must be stemmed before it forces the average bloke onto the streets to demonstrate.

If people feel they left the EU for nothing there will be a backlash not seen in recent history.

I don't know either (as you say, who does?) but i voted out due to all it's problems.
The main thing that swayed me was the fact that very little changes suddenly or dramatically in a middle-of-the-road country such as ours.

Nothing ventured nothing gained i guess.

Time to move forward together.

I think any government will struggle to legitimise its leave strategy without subjecting manifestos and policy to a General Election.

The issue really isn't whether a personal issue has been redressed, but that democratic process has been applied. Its important to remember as well that there will be more general elections, for people to try to pursue those issues. There will most likely only be the one referendum on EU membership in their lifetime (ok maybe one more).

With a remain vote, those issues, would likely be impossible to have addressed again in their lifetime.

Plus if everything goes balls up, s**t f**ked crazy totally disaster cock, we can always join the EU, as a somewhat chastened and reduced entity.

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its out of our hands now. I've always thought we'd all be unhappy because leaving will piss off half of the country and then the government will sign up to EEA to avoid trade tarrifs and consequences to london as europes trading centre, pissing off the other half. We don't have a great deal of scope for reducing immigration in any of these scenarios and europe has made it clear it's not open to special arrangements for countries on the way out of the door rather than on the way in.

The irony is that for us to avoid 'freedom of movement' as a given we will likely need the EU to try to wreck any decent deal our government tries to sign up too. In that scenario yes we'll be further removed from europe and can probably have more say over immigration. the economy will take a hit though so we'll get lots of guff from our government about how we need significant numbers to stablise the economy and back to square one. it'll be the same as it is now but with people disliking each other a little bit more.

if we had a proportional voting systen that would perhaps open the door for more people power so to speak. i bet the government dont regret the result of referendum as much as they regret offering it in the first place.

Edited by blackpalacefan (27 Jun 2016 4.56pm)

The problem countries are experiencing economically are because they haven't practised fiscal discipline and the EU haven't monitored it either. They didn't know or care about tax evasion in Greece and looked the other way when the books were cooked by Goldman Sachs when joining the Eurozone. They are now punishing them whilst anyone with capital and transferable skills and probably untaxed Euros in their overseas bank accounts have left the country. It stinks, but the fallout won't end there. There will be more and the whole union will crumble. We're better off out.

And I don't know where you get We had the best of all worlds.

i know that, but the tarrifs are very significant plus we'd lose access to the single market. That would be a worry for london, as we are the go to trading centre on account of our access to the single market. i can't see the government gambling at any cost to the economy when they personally dont even care about freedom of movement and the country is pretty much split down the centre on the issue. the only way we'll end up under WTO is if the EU tries to force us own that route, so hilariously we'd have them to thank for it rather than our own politicians.

this from just now:

Rating agency Fitch has said the victory by the “Leave” campaign could damage the Britain's status as a banking hub.

The agency also said most sectors would likely see less growth and lower investments due to the uncertainty about future trade arrangements.

"The UK's status as a major international banking hub could be damaged as some business lines shift to the EU. Higher import costs and pressure on exports due to the potential imposition of tariffs would be broadly negative for corporates."

Edited by blackpalacefan (27 Jun 2016 5.19pm)