Brits Leave

[mosquito]

Trudough should take notes. He very much plans on rigging our electoral system that has been in place since Confederation without holding a referendum on it. If Harper had done that there would have been heads explode and people in the streets with pitchforks. But Harper was a "ordinary" looking man though.......

Agreed, we can now expect Quebec to go on a separation rampage that will require billions to prop up the Quebec gov't and keep it in Canada ..... of course if it leaves billions in payments Canada won't have to make and.... And .... AND .... JUSTIN IS FROM QUEBEC...

QUEXIT vote Yes and take Justin with.....

[mooboy76]

From the current news articles circulating, I don't think the Leave campaign expected a win. It could be selection bias of the interviewers though. I'm glad my pension is not tied closely with Britain or the pound; maybe it's a good time to buy some International index fund units.

This is an interesting before/after talking point comparison (http://nyti.ms/291ivB2)

There seems to be no rush to do anything, and maybe not make any changes with regard to those contentious issues after all.
I guess we will see how binding the British Parliament decides this referendum was.

[trimmer21]

On a referendum as far-reaching as this,it surprises me that the vote requirement was 50%+1 to take the UK out of the EU. I would have thought they would have set it much higher,like 65/35 to avoid all of the acrimony from the losing side. I'm also surprised at the attitude of The Scots after their Separation vote with a win for the "stay" side. Sometimes,it's far better to wait for the smoke to clear before lighting another fire.

[JBen]

Another interesting parallel to this.

google exploded following the results with topics such as "what is the EU", "what will leaving mean", etc etc.

goes to show how little attention and how ill informed electorates are. Shades of Ontario and Canada.

[Rugger]

LOL Iceland just kicked them out of the Euro Cup. How fitting.

[JoePa]

Well - no matter what the results will bring - if you were on your toes you could have make big bucks in the market - now the key is to figure how low it will go - talking about on yours toes - one way to do that is raise the urinals in the men's room

[mooboy76]

On a referendum as far-reaching as this,it surprises me that the vote requirement was 50%+1 to take the UK out of the EU. I would have thought they would have set it much higher,like 65/35 to avoid all of the acrimony from the losing side. I'm also surprised at the attitude of The Scots after their Separation vote with a win for the "stay" side. Sometimes,it's far better to wait for the smoke to clear before lighting another fire.

I saw an article talking about a new petition to the British Parliament. The gist was that they wanted a second referendum would be triggered if turnout was less than 75% or the winning vote had less than 60% support. Seems kinda late in the game to put a procedural framework in place. Either way, PM Cameron summarily rejected the idea.

Scotland and Northern Ireland are showing some stress cracks in UK, put who knows what political will there is for action. Scotland voted by 62% to 38% to remain;

I think the issue with the Scots was the 2014 vote for 'stay' included a UK as part of the EU, instead of Scotland becoming an independent country that would have to negotiate their own place in the EU and with the remaining UK. Those conditions that they voted to 'stay' on are going to disappear, so did they vote to stay with the EU or with the UK? So, I can see why they might want clarity. Looks like the Scottish Parliament might try to block the triggering of Article 50 and keep it both ways.

Northern Ireland voted by 55.8% to 44.2% to remain.
Sinn Fein's MEP made a plea to the EU to let Norther Ireland stay (VIDEO)
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-...endum-36651621

Interesting that London was 59.9% to 40.1% to remain as well.

[mooboy76]

Looks like politicking is the same the world over.


Reality Check: Have Leave campaigners changed their tune?
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-...endum-36641390



Also, on the immigration thing, I guess Britain will be expectantly waiting to see what happens with Switzerland. Same line of thinking: they want to place their own restrictions on the 'free movement' EU policy, but still have preferential access to the EU common market with other benefits.

The EU is already paring down access to benefits, programs, and looking at re-negotiations for the Swiss, after it was stated that Switzerland could not fulfill the 'free movement' requirements of the EU. Small stuff so far - no more EU funding for Swiss college and university students, and the Swiss will have to re-negotiate their electricity supply network deal with the EU. Switzerland may end up getting the stick for the Brexit result?

[Dythbringer]

From the current news articles circulating, I don't think the Leave campaign expected a win. It could be selection bias of the interviewers though. I'm glad my pension is not tied closely with Britain or the pound; maybe it's a good time to buy some International index fund units.

This is an interesting before/after talking point comparison (http://nyti.ms/291ivB2)

There seems to be no rush to do anything, and maybe not make any changes with regard to those contentious issues after all.
I guess we will see how binding the British Parliament decides this referendum was.

I agree with you about how binding the referendum is. However, when you have 75% of the population voting in a referendum and a majority tells the parliament which way it wants it to go, ignoring the results of the referendum would be committing political suicide.

[rick_iles]

This issue is way above my pay grade, but I can say it's refreshing to see a government allow a vote by their people !!