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In the Aftermath Of Brexit, Brits Google About Irish Passport, Meaning Of EU, and Why it All Happened
As the world makes peace with the news that the United Kingdom has voted to leave the European Union, people in the UK are increasingly trying to figure out what this means. Google noted on Twitter late Thursday that "What is the EU?" was the second top UK question on the EU since the news broke, with "Why did Britain leave the EU?" being the first. The questions also speak volume about the awareness of the issue among them. Understandably, some people also resorted to the search engine to look for Irish passports. "Getting an Irish passport" keywords saw a 100% surge.
Scotland seems to want to stay in the EU:
https://twitter.com/jk_rowling...
Will the Kingdoms become Ununited, as Jasper Fforde shows:
http://www.jasperfforde.com/dr...
Maybe those in power really do know what they're doing.
In this case, I don't think they did. Cameron gambled that he could appease his Eurosceptic Tories with this referendum, not really believing that it would ever pass. It was a major miscalculation.
They're not searching for "what is the super bowl". Wait, did I have to explain that?
Voters rightfully want to control their country's own destiny without having to cater to some international rule-making body a thousand miles away....
Actually it's 199.26 miles genius ... now go get a snickers and stop being such a drama queen.
Turnout was almost 73% of eligible voters. That's a very large number.
Are you in the UK? Do you know what happens here? Do you know what the damnable muslims have done? They rape our women, they demand concessions like zero pork products in schools, which also means English children are forbidden to bring their own lunch with pork. No one is allowed to speak up against islam, but those days ended yesterday. A nice, healthy nationalism will emerge, where the English are in charge of their own destiny. No more taking in the sodden camel jockeys, who have paid nothing into the system, but live off the dole, take housing meant for the English, did I mention rape our women. buy old monument chapels and churches and use them for the Godforsaken worship of their false god, allah and his child-raping prophet, mohammed. Fuck them. This is England -- a white, northern European country that deserves to set her own agenda, not one of globalism from Belgium. Look at the EU. Immigration has destroyed the EU in the last couple of years. It's unsafe to walk so many cities now. muslim men demand no beer be sold within their sight, even though this is Europe, not Turdistan. Fuck the muslims. They have done more to ruin England and Europe in just a few years. Call me a bigot. This is England! You want to come here? Assimilate. Speak English, keep your head down, cause zero trouble, leave our women alone. This is England.
Swap out Jews for Muslims and you've got a rant there that Hitler would have been proud of. Only took 70 years, but of course most of the people alive when this kind of fascist nationalism grew into power in the 30s are dead now anyway, so no one really remembers anymore.
I'm always amazed by Socialists/Globalists complaining about socialism failing. It's ALWAYS someone else's fault.
Maybe it's time to re-evaluate your college theory/fantasies?
You need to look up the word socialism. Just throwing that word randomly at things you do not like just makes you look stupid.
The second question, "What happens if we leave the EU?", shooting up the ratings is actually quite understandable. Around midnight UK time was when it first started to seem that the Leave campaign might actually win, something many doubted would actually happen, when the first results were announced showing much narrower margins for Remain victories (Newcastle) against much larger margins for Leave victories (Sunderland) than expected. You've going to have a lot of people who favoured Remain and were confident that would be the case starting to get nervous and wonder what might happen if Leave won, who didn't really have any reason to find out previously; it had no bearing on their vote or what most polls and just about every opinion outside the actual Leave campaign were suggesting would be the result.
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
It's done. We're out, and we're now going to have to live with the consequences of that vote.
I'll disagree with that bit. The referendum is not legally binding and until the divorce paperwork is done, the UK is a member even if the other members decide to treat us like a cheating spouse :)
With Cameron resigning, his successor will have 2 years before a general election, during which it may become very clear that the Conservative party is deeply fractured because of this key policy. Same with Labour.
Some time is needed for government-capable parties to re-group and win a general election. It would surprise me if no new-new-Labour or new-Tory party presented themselves on a platform of NOT going ahead with the Brexit. Either alone, or in an alliance between Greens, LibDems and new-new-Labour.
In the meantime, Scotland is getting ready for a break up. If the Conservative party wanted this to have England all to themselves, it's working really well, except for the sudden dip in the markets, possibly to be followed by recession.