Brexit

[Up2U]

Tim Kaine on Brexit vote: Young people voted to stay, old people voted to leave
Brexit votes by age
By Lauren Carroll on Sunday, June 26th, 2016
Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., discusses the Brexit vote.
Since the United Kingdom’s stunning vote to leave the European Union, political observers have wondered what the ramifications will be in the United States, especially what it will mean for the 2016 election.

On June 26, Meet the Press host Chuck Todd asked Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., for his take on Britain’s exit (Brexit).... (read more)...
http://www.politifact.com/global-new...ted-stay-old-/

[fountainhall]

And as for Scottish independence, what I think many are not taking into account with Scotland is that in the new dispensation, the Scottish/English border would become, like in NI, the boundary between the EU and (the remainder of the) UK, and so would be quite a harder border than was envisaged in the last Scottish independence referendum..

It would be harder for the out-of-the-EU English than the in-the-EU Scots. At only 154kms, the length of the land border, though, is really quite short and would not be difficult to control. Since it would be the English who'd be more desperate to keep out EU citizens, no doubt they'd have to pay for it!

[arsenal]

The sound of backtracking from the leave campaign leaders is getting louder and louder. Boris said that free movement and free trade would continue whatever happens. This was never supposed to happen, It seems that a very large percentage of those who voted to leave were protest voters. Cornwall in particular are shitting themselves that their subsidies are going to disappear. I predict that once again, Britain will save Europe from themselves.

[fountainhall]

HSBC has announced it will be moving 1,000 jobs from London to Paris after Brexit. How many financial enterprises are based in London? How many more jobs throughout the country will disappear? With sterling dropping further today, it is tempting to fly immediately to the UK and snap up everything I'd been planning to stock up on in the next 2 years before prices start to rise. With the pound down more than 15% and approx. 17% returned (after fees) on VAT charges, a lot of goods will be near bargain basement prices. Thai import duties? Forget Thai customs! A little tea money will go a long way with them!

[scottish-guy]

Good on you Founty - with the political disintegration thats going on in England I'm going out to Aldi today to stock up on Corned Beef, Tinned Potatoes, Beans, and (in view of the other items)... Toilet Roll.

Osborne's minders appear to have straighted him up sufficiently to put him in front of a camera later this morning. No doubt the fluids they'll have put into him over the weekend will make him look sparkly bright.

There's speculation this morning that he'll ride on Boris Johnson's ticket as his "number two" (which would be highly appropriate)

[Tobi]

With sterling dropping further today...

I emptied my foreign accounts to buy sterling on Friday. The market volatility is likely to calm quickly, when everyone wakes up to the fact that nothing has changed nor will change for a couple of years at least. The HSBC job losses are those specific to euro trading, many in the financial sector feel brexit may yet prove a huge opportunity for the UK, especially with MiFIDII arriving in the next couple of years.

[fountainhall]

Just saw this lovely summation recorded a week or so ago about why the UK should stay in the EU - despite not liking part (many parts) of it. (Just click on watch this video on YouTube)

[arsenal]

Fountainhall. Sums everything up perfectly, Quite quite brilliant.

[Moses]

Reaction in Russian social networks:

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Gorbi : David, my boy, now you carry the burden of a man sprawled Union

[arsenal]

It might be funny in Vladivostok Moses. But it doesn't translate well.