06-24-2016, 10:59 PM
(06-24-2016, 10:47 PM)Rotobeast Wrote: Oh man....
These are the kinds of things I feared.
Old beefs getting riled (Falkland independence again ?) and further separation within the populace.
If the referendum is ignored and the UK stay in the EU, there will be riots with blood in the streets.
It may even happen with the mere agreement of a second vote.
The argument for the second vote is that because the winning side was lower than 60% and voter turnout was lower than 75%, there should be a second vote. This would be interesting now, of course, since one of the major claims about money being saved by not being members of the EU has been admitted to being bull shit by Ukip leader Nigel Farage and it was something many people based their voting on.
This is going to be a mess. The Scottish cabinet meets tomorrow at Holyrood, and I fully expect an announcement of a second referendum to come shortly thereafter since First Minister Sturgeon was all over the idea right away.
There are already protests all over England. I don't expect this to improve much at all soon.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
