Brexit and the waning days of the United Kingdom

[garbon]

The British are frantically Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it

You know I try to read up on the issues before voting on them but hey to each their own.

Couldn't it easily be people who never thought the UK would leave trying to find out? I, myself, looked up today about what are the benefits the UK is supposed to accrue from leaving.

[Valmy]

Couldn't it easily be people who never thought the UK would leave trying to find out? I, myself, looked up today about what are the benefits the UK is supposed to accrue from leaving.

Probably. It is the Washington Post's joke not mine.

[Valmy]

I am getting bombarded by Goldbugs telling me that Gold and Silver are SURGING as Brexit indicates the imminent collapse of the world economy. But then they tend to say that about every election.

[frunk]

Couldn't it easily be people who never thought the UK would leave trying to find out? I, myself, looked up today about what are the benefits the UK is supposed to accrue from leaving.

It's clearly a clickbait headline.  As you say if anything it shows that people want to know exactly what's expected to happen now that a series of unprecedented events has been unleashed.

[Josquius]

60% of London voted to remain, some boroughs were up to 70%.

Not sure what your first statement is meant to convey.

Yes. But the Cockney vote?

London skims off the top people from around the country. It relies on the test of the country to push people into its black hole

PM Johnson and President Trump are going to get on great together 

God wills it. 

I call sitcom.
The dad is president of the us.
The son is prime minister of the uk.
It's kind of like an up market steptoe and son

[lustindarkness]

So England could be our 51st State?

[Barrister]

So England could be our 51st State?

England is just getting out of a relationship right now.  It's too early for her to think about shacking up with someone else - never mind getting married.

[Sheilbh]

We want an opt out on the second amendment

[Sophie Scholl]

So England could be our 51st State?

Landing Strip One!

[Sheilbh]

Lord Livermore,  formerly of No 10 and the Treasury saying London should seek independence

The Republic of Bexley will defend its sovereign borders with zeal.

City of London apprentices should purge Parliament of the Brexiteers

[lustindarkness]

We want an opt out on the second amendment

You can have a referendum on that when the time comes.

[Sheilbh]

The range of response is incredible. People in the North saying their having parties. In London, comparing the mood to after a terrorist attack.

[Habbaku]

So England could be our 51st State?

Landing Strip One!

Airstrip One. 

[OttoVonBismarck]

We want an opt out on the second amendment

That's the beauty of Federalism, the sort of gun laws current in place in Britain, were England a state, would be 100% constitutional. One of the big reasons state-by-state gun laws don't do much in the United States is it's so easy to just buy in one state and transport to another, but our 51st state, being an island 3,000 miles away would be somewhat protected.

[Sheilbh]

Really? I thought our gun laws would definitely be unconstitutional in the US.

Agree with this piece:
https://next.ft.com/content/643fb2f6-39e6-11e6-9a05-82a9b15a8ee7