EU referendum live: David Cameron resigns as UK shocks the world by voting for Brexit

[greyl]

Source: The Telegraph



Britain has voted to leave the European Union, with the Leave campaign securing around 51.8 per cent of the vote.

David Cameron has resigned as Prime Minister.

While England voted overwhelmingly for Brexit, Scotland and Northern Ireland backed Remain. Statements are expected to be made by Sinn Fein and the SNP later today calling for a breakaway from the Union. London backed Remain but the turnout was lower than expected because of bad weather.

The pound crashed to the lowest level since 1985 as sterling fell below $1.35. Complacency about a Brexit outcome will come clear this morning, as out of hours trading suggests that the FTSE 100 will drop by 8.8pc, or by some 560 points. The fall would be the third worst in history if stocks ended the day down as sharply.


Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/24/eu-referendum-results-live-brexit-wins-as-britain-votes-to-leave/

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[ellenrr]

1. I never saw this coming! nt

[sinkingfeeling]

19. Me neither. I thought the English had more smarts.

[joshcryer]

2. Live video link:

[Vote2016]

3. David Cameron is useless. His centrist social policies masking economic piracy will not be missed

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

4. Oh, I am sure he will be missed.

When this piece of shit moves into Downing Street...

[deurbano]

5. Oh, god.

[jtuck004]

9. I really don't know anything much about this guy, but in just a brief perusal he puts me

in mind of an evil, scary, unfunny Rob Ford.

But that's probably just what makes the headlines.

[Surya Gayatri]

18. He is the British TRUMP...from all points of view.

1) Big money RW ideologue and apologist = Check

2) Ignorant zenophobe and bigot = Check

3) Self-aggrandizing and self-promoting jackass = Check

4) Buffoon and loud-mouthed clown = Check

5) Sociopathic liar and prevaricator = Check

And, he stands a very good chance of becoming the UK's next Prime Minister.

[totodeinhere]

25. Will Johnson and Trump become the next Thatcher and Reagan?

God help us.

[Surya Gayatri]

26. OMG, the prospect is enough to make hemlock seem a viable option.

(Black humor-- )

[liberalnarb]

45. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!!!

[BlueStater]

15. Weird looking guy.

He looks like Darrell Hammond impersonating Chris Matthews.

[bunnies]

28. YES! I was wracking my brain trying to figure out who he reminded me of.

You nailed it!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

36. Is that a Trump wig he's wearing?

[TeamPooka]

6. The original draft of his statement read: "Fuck you people. I'm not going to run the shitstorm you

just handed me. You're on your own."

[inanna]

7. Exactly! n/t

[msanthrope]

17. "Après moi le déluge." nt

[forest444]

40. Their reply: "Don't let the doorknob hit you in the derrière."

Good riddance to Dirty Dave.

[840high]

57. yep

[Cosmocat]

23. lol

yep ...

[harun]

50. ROFL, pretty much.

[TeamPooka]

53. There was a great Simpsons episode a few years back...

Trash of the Titans
Homer runs for Sanitation Commissioner and wins, fucks everything up and they try to bring the old Sanitation Commissioner back to clean up Homer's mess....

Steve Martin played Ray Patterson.
The UK just got Pattersoned.

[uhnope]

8. idiot who invited this vote for xenophobia and irrational reaction

Brexit is a bad sign for the so-called English-speaking world

[onehandle]

10. Trump's ready to go fill in. Kill two birds with one stone. nt

[pampango]

13. BBC: Donald Trump in Scotland: 'Brexit a great thing'

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-36606184

[pansypoo53219]

11. that was fast.

WEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeee. austerity was WORKING!!!!

[harun]

51. We're not used to accountability here in the U.S. Our leaders don't resign even when impeached.

[bucolic_frolic]

12. Far more Nativists than anyone imagined

It can happen here. Donald's white America. Watch out.

[Drahthaardogs]

14. Why would anyone be surprised

the root of our own racism was brought here by the English. For the record, the Saxons in this country have hated the irish, the Catholic, the blacks, the italians, the mexicans, the jews, the japanese, and a host of others I left out. For the record, lots of countries had slavery but no one adopted a version like the english in this country.

[Bucky]

43. Wait, I'm Anglo-Saxon. I don't hate any of those people. Why would you say that about me?

My guess is it's because you're opposed to people making negative, sweeping generalizations about ethnic groups.

[Drahthaardogs]

46. It is their legacy from Australia

To the Americas. It is not a generalization but rather their legacy.

[sendero]

16. Cameron: beyond useless..

... good riddance.

[Surya Gayatri]

20. Be careful what you cheer for...this is what will probably replace him:

A Prime Minister (much further to the Right than Cameron), unelected by universal suffrage, but "elected" by 1500 Conservative Members of Parliament in a Tory leadership contest.

BORIS the Trump JOHNSON

[sendero]

21. For a time perhaps..

... but I doubt for very long.

[Surya Gayatri]

22. Did you see the Conservative landslide which reelected Cameron a year ago?

Given that crushing result, which cemented the Tories' hold on power, and which literally wiped out the Labour opposition, there will not be a new general election for at least another four years--plenty of time to do maximum damage to the UK and to Europe.

Believe me, Boris "the Trump" Johnson is not someone you want to see with the reins of power in their hands.

[Odin2005]

29. Isn't the collapse of Labour the result of the rise of the Scottish Nationalist Party?

Scotland was traditionally a key Labour stronghold.

[Surya Gayatri]

30. Labour was indeed closed out within their Scottish electorate to the benefit of the SNP,

but they were decimated all over England.

It was a shellacking of epic proportions.

[Odin2005]

33. What are the reasons for that?

I would have expected Labour to have regained some voters by default after the collapse of the Lib-Dems.

[Surya Gayatri]

35. Labour was divided and did NOT get behind their standard bearer, Ed Milliband.

The Lib-Dem defectors went Tory.

Labour is still under the very dark cloud of the 2008 crash and of the Iraq debacle. They were in the waning years of a too-long run at the helm at the time, and PM Gordon Brown was largely discredited as ineffectual.

Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn is widely viewed as non-Prime Ministerial, both by temperament and political saavy.

[Odin2005]

37. That's too bad, Corbyn seems like a decent guy.

[Surya Gayatri]

38. Very decent, but doctrinaire and alienating to many, even many in his own party..

[Denzil_DC]

54. If Labour had won every single seat the SNP won,

it would still have lost the election and the Tories would have won.

It was its losses in the rest of the UK that sealed the deal.

Scotland's vote has been decisive in a UK general election only two or three times since 1945: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/11552991/The-general-elections-where-Scotland-decided-who-ran-the-UK.html

This wasn't one of those times.

[Odin2005]

27. Does Boris go to the same hairdresser as Don the Con?

[Surya Gayatri]

31. Well, they certainly use the same "coloring" product...

[Bucky]

44. In the last year I have learned not to judge a candidate based on hair care

[Odin2005]

49. I supported Bernie, too, that doesn't mean I can't make fun of these 2 idiots.

[pampango]

41. Boris Johnson will turn the UK into a "hyper-capitalist island freed from EU regulation" and

turn the UK into a "neoliberal fantasy island".

They don't call him the Trump of the U.K. for nothing.

[Surya Gayatri]

42. Too true, sadly.

[840high]

58. Agreed.

[metalbot]

24. The country split was interesting

England and Wales both voted to Leave, but Scotland and Northern Ireland both voted to stay, with Scotland voting strong majority to stay.

One wonders if that would give new impetus to a vote in Scotland to leave the UK, but to remain in EU.

[Surya Gayatri]

32. It's happening as we speak. Sinn Fein has called for a referendum on Northern Ireland

withdrawing from the UK and joining the Irish Republic.

The SNP has already called this morning for an immediate second referendum on Scotland leaving the UK and joining the EU as a sovereign nation.

[Odin2005]

34. I remember hearing on the BBC World Serive that many Northern Ireland small business people...

...are terrified of Brexit because they do a lot of business across the border in Ireland proper. They interviewed a carpenter who said that half of his sales were on the Irish side of the border.

[malthaussen]

39. We live in interesting times. n/t

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

47. So, will it be South Park character in human form, Johnson for

the UK now?

[yellowcanine]

48. Telegraph gets it wrong as usual. Cameron did not resign. He announced that he will resign in

October.

[David__77]

52. Is the author actually shocked?

Didn't polls at least show this close? Whence the shock?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

55. "...turnout was lower than expected because of bad weather"

Ruh Roh!

[Wernothelpless]

56. The 1% saw it coming ...

Listen to this ... She predicts the Friday market fall when her charts show the 1% were selling early in the week ... That means the fix was in on Brexit ... It didn't matter which way the vote fell ...