BREXIT! The United Kingdom has voted to leave the EU

[William Tell]

The BBC has called it.

BBC forecast: UK votes to leave European Union with 309 out of 382 results declared
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http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-36615028

http://www.bbc.com/news/politics/eu_referendum/results

[FSP-Rebel]

Eat $#@! you $#@!ing globalists.

[Son_of_Liberty90]

Should have gone down to the local pub!!

[Origanalist]

Will Merkel invade Britain now?

[heavenlyboy34]

As of nao, only several members of the UK have voted to exit. The Scots and several others are currently solidly in the "remain" camp. Inaccurate thread title is inaccurate. :P

[heavenlyboy34]

Will Merkel invade Britain now?

Who's going to lend her the Deutsch marks to do that?

[Origanalist]

You mean Euro's?

[TheTexan]

Who's going to lend her the Deutsch marks to do that?

No need for marks, she can lend herself Euros no problem

[TheTexan]

No need for marks, she can lend herself Euros no problem

And given the UK is still in the EU, they'd probably have to help pay for it

[FSP-Rebel]

Guys and gals, you must be excited by this

[TheTexan]

Guys and gals, you must be excited by this

Just sad, really. This is the beginning of the end of the EU

I had such high hopes for the EU, was hoping America would join someday, but alas

[Origanalist]

Guys and gals, you must be excited by this

If the EU can break up, there is hope for the US. I mean the Soviet Union fell apart, who knows?

[Danke]

Just sad, really. This is the beginning of the end of the EU

I had such high hopes for the EU, was hoping America would join someday, but alas

There is still hope for the NAU.

[TheTexan]

There is still hope for the NAU.

Good point. The western hemisphere should make an alliance like the European Union, so we can more easily transact business & send money to other countries

We could call this alliance, Western Union

[timosman]

If the EU can break up, there is hope for the US. I mean the Soviet Union fell apart, who knows?

We would have to dismantle China first before we see any domestic secession.

[TheTexan]

We would have to dismantle China first

Challenge accepted

[Zippyjuan]

Snowden tweet:

Edward Snowden (@Snowden)
16 hours ago - View on Twitter
No matter the outcome, #Brexit polls demonstrate how quickly half of any population can be convinced to vote against itself. Quite a lesson.

https://twitter.com/Snowden?ref_src=...Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Many companies have threatened to leave Britain if it passed.

[puppetmaster]

Snowden tweet:

Yes the ones who voted to be servents......almost half.

[timosman]

Snowden tweet:

Shouldn't you be in bed by now?

[Brian4Liberty]

Shouldn't you be in bed by now?

He works swing shift.

[Zippyjuan]

Mommy said I could stay up late if I did all of my homework first.

[puppetmaster]

Mommy said I could stay up late if I did all of my homework first.

Schools out for the summer.

[Natural Citizen]

Dang. It's official. They're out (per the vote)

Switzerland withdrew its longstanding application, too.

Hm. Makes sense for Britain to pursue its own agenda with the Chinese and Russians.

[luctor-et-emergo]

Many companies have threatened to leave Britain if it passed.

And guess what, they probably won't. Just as all the scaremongering from Cameron and his friends will turn out to be just that, scaremongering.

[P3ter_Griffin]

Snowden tweet:



https://twitter.com/Snowden?ref_src=...Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Many companies have threatened to leave Britain if it passed.

I saw this tweet before I tuned into the livecast and so I found it funny when I heard from a MP infavor of remaining in the EU say that this has been a long standing desire for some people of Britain and that the debate was well hashed out with positive and negatives to remaining in the EU and that the people decided to leave. Maybe I misunderstand him and he's making a reference to why democracy is bad but then including "how quickly" just really takes away from his statement.

[RonPaulIsGreat]

Wow, something I agreed with actually happened! I don't know how to deal with this situation, since 2007 I can't think of anything major that happened that aligned with my viewpoint.

It's TRUE, the end is near.

[idiom]

Its not really happening. People can't use democracy to vote for smaller government. Its unpossible.

Governments only get bigger under democracy remember?

[Zippyjuan]

British government won't be getting smaller. It is going to have to hire hundreds more to work on all the details and new agreements and laws they are going to need.

[69360]

British government won't be getting smaller. It is going to have to hire hundreds more to work on all the details and new agreements and laws they are going to need.

Maybe not smaller but better. Now they won't have their laws made by unelected foreigners in Brussels.

I'm actually very surprised it passed. The British impress me yet again.

[Suzanimal]

Yay! I love waking up to the smell of secession in the morning.