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Will the losers accept the result and move on

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  • gfplux
    gfplux Posts: 4,985 Forumite
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    I am a British Citizen living outside the UK in another EU Country, Luxembourg.
    I will be sad if the vote is Brexit but also recognise this as Democracy at work.
    I will then watch with interest and hopefully not much horror the negotiations to leave.
    The U.K. Will be living in interesting times as the Chinese say. That is not a good thing.
    There will be no Brexit dividend for Britain.
  • Jon_B_2
    Jon_B_2 Posts: 832 Forumite
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    As a Remainian, I will be sad if we decide to leave the EU. But I will suck it and see - it could be the dreamland that BoJo promised.

    At least if it !!!!s up I will know who to blame.
  • benjus
    benjus Posts: 5,433 Forumite
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    molerat wrote: »
    I'm expecting Remain to claim vote rigging and various random conspiracies if they don't win.

    Given that Leave have been claiming vote rigging and random conspiracies already (all this nonsense about using a pen instead of a pencil - I mean really, does anyone with half a brain take this seriously?) I think Leave is rather more likely to engage in this sort of behaviour if they lose.
    Let's settle this like gentlemen: armed with heavy sticks
    On a rotating plate, with spikes like Flash Gordon
    And you're Peter Duncan; I gave you fair warning
  • Mistermeaner
    Mistermeaner Posts: 3,024 Forumite
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    CLAPTON wrote: »
    I'm sure you would offer that advise to Jo too.

    Very low dragging that up in here Clapton. I expect more from the ever logical infallible and beacon of morality that you are.

    Disgusted in you
    Left is never right but I always am.
  • CLAPTON
    CLAPTON Posts: 41,865 Forumite
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    Very low dragging that up in here Clapton. I expect more from the ever logical infallible and beacon of morality that you are.

    Disgusted in you

    I would consider your faux 'disgust' as an admission of guilt
  • HornetSaver
    HornetSaver Posts: 3,732 Forumite
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    edited 24 June 2016 at 4:44AM
    Didn't answer this question before the result was known, because the answer depended on the result.

    If we had remained, I am absolutely certain that every leave leader would have accepted the result as being final, with good grace, and allowed the UK to get on with day-to-day life for at least the next couple of decades.

    Now that leave is all-but-certain:

    Westminster will accept the result and do its best to make the best of it. How good a thing that is depends on how competent you believe Westminster to be. Indeed, this was the main reason a lot of people on the fence were ultimately leaning towards Remain - a belief that even if leaving was in theory the better option, the politicians would most likely screw the process up.

    Scotland will leave UK before 2020.

    Our relationship with independent Scotland and the Republic of Ireland becomes extremely interesting (to put it mildly) unless freedom of movement is retained.

    Huge surge in immigration whilst we are still full members of EU, as those considering the move realise it's their last chance.

    Significant spike in applications for dual-citizenship from British-born people who actively make use of the EU's free-movement rules and qualify for the passport of another country (Ireland in particular).

    EDIT: By no means an exhaustive list, but with the exception of Indyref2 the ones that strike me as the least controversial.

    I will add, more controversially, but consistently with what I said a month or two ago, that there is definitely going to be a recession within the next 18 months. Whether it is a short-term bump which no-one really notices, or a deep one which has long-lasting effects, is harder to say.
  • Mistermeaner
    Mistermeaner Posts: 3,024 Forumite
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    CLAPTON wrote: »
    I would consider your faux 'disgust' as an admission of guilt

    No Clapton, I think you raising jo cox when her murder had no relevance to the bit of banter in these last few posts is disgusting.

    What relevance does it have. Can you explain yourself?
    Left is never right but I always am.
  • AG47
    AG47 Posts: 1,618 Forumite
    If it's close that means that almost 50% are unhappy
    Nothing has been fixed since 2008, it was just pushed into the future
  • Kohoutek
    Kohoutek Posts: 2,861 Forumite
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    The answer to the OP's question is clearly 'no', at least in the case of Scotland and Northern Ireland.
  • ruggedtoast
    ruggedtoast Posts: 9,819 Forumite
    This is the boomers. The fault of it boomers. The UKIP voting pension hogging boomers. :mad::mad:
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