24 June 2016
Three-quarters of young people – a massive mandate – are predicted to have voted remain, according to a YouGov poll, while those older than us made the decision to vote in favour of an uncertain vision of a future Britain that the young emphatically did not and do not want. Thank you to those baby boomers and their parents who either voted to stay, or who, in the days before the referendum, agreed to put aside their own feelings and vote on behalf of their children and grandchildren. We appreciate you trying.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/24/young-angry-eu-referendum
Asked I; How binding is this result?
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/23/eu-referendum-legally-binding-brexit-lisbon-cameron-sovereign-parliament
Of course it'd be nice if some in Europe weren't being so quick to kick the bratty bigoted Brits out of the house.
www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/24/europe-plunged-crisis-britain-votes-leave-eu-european-union
IF we can prevent this we should at least try, don't you think? Because if we don't then right-wing separatists all over Europe will be queueing up to UKIP their countries out, probably leading to a string of conflicts as all that has been slowly, painfully at times, built since 1945 tears apart and we return to the moronic policies of the past.
Or is the prospect of the Balkanisation of Europe not petrifying anyone else?
Kerk
And no, I've lived with UKIP since they began, and they ARE NOT eccentric middle-class buffoons. There is no real difference between them and the likes of Golden Dawn in Greece, or their ilk in Hungary; France; Germany; Netherlands; Sweden etc... etc...
They are demonstrably more dangerous BECAUSE no-one takes them seriously.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/24/intolerance-ethnic-minority-poles-uk
I have had four messages; allegedly sent by senior Liberal Democrats today, which have not encouraged me to rejoin the national party, because they all appear to be wishing to lie down and let the wild dogs run off with the prize.
I will be a Liberal until I die, but if they are not going to fight this all the way, then I shall seek out a party here in Scotland that will fight FOR what they could not bother with. That will be the Scottish Liberal Democrats if they can prove they've got a stronger backbone.
I am of course a fine one to say stuff like this, but I am just so fucking angry right now that Pig-Fucker Cameron let a Tory party civil war put the future of everyone on this continent which has, until a little over sixty years ago, known only war, and pseudo-war for the near totality of it's 'civilised' history.
Given my family's history with male life spans, I may have very little time to have to deal with the consequences; others will not.
I don't know what to do except be alternately depressed, or angry enough to punch Farage in the face if he gets within range, right now - just trying to be productive for once in my waste-of-space life.
Kerk