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the uk is in a mess
The UK seems to be in a mess at the moment after the recent vote to leave the EU. I think we are a laughing stock.

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The UK seems to be in a mess at the moment after the recent vote to leave the EU. I think we are a laughing stock.
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I think the US is either right behind you or right ahead of you depending on the day. Sorry :(
Its a sad day for everyday folk. We have no leaders and no plans. I'm not always so complaining lol.
Laughing at the UK (or anyone) looks like laughing at misfortunes of friends/neighbors. Could happen to anyone: ruin lives with "austerity" and they may punch up, or punch themselves (convinced they're punching down). I was just re-reading:
In 2016 the worst of the humanity has been put on the spotlight. Given the trend, by 2017 those same people will hold some of the power too.
It's a shame that in the UK the populism has won, but it isn't the only place where that is happening.
Not by a long shot. 2016 has made me very nervous about 2017... and beyond. This is going to have long-lasting consequences.
The people who've voted to leave have done it exactly because it's been presented as a last chance. The arguments on "globalism" and its "consequences" (brown scares) have come aplenty. You're not going to convince people who've voted "no" by name-calling them.
I'm honestly not very knowledgable about the brexit situation. Is there a lot of name calling happening right now there and what do you think is a better course of correction?
The result was expected to cast a "Remain" result overall. However, it's turned out that the places where "Remain" has won clearly are London, the entirety of Scotland and Northern Ireland. The rest of the country has shown a clear majority vote for "Leave" or a stalemate. As a result, there's been a very tight 52-48 vote.
Given the gigantic role that London has as a capital and that practically everything of importance in the UK is headquartered there, the entire elites of practically every social group (political parties, trade unions, banks, etc.) have been caught unawares. The name-calling is happening in the internet, with scores of furious Medium posters, Redditors, news articles, etc. blasting against the Leave voters who've been tricked by the "racist campaign" that they've allowed to happen in the first place.
The Leave vote has shown that the common person from, say, Stoke-on-Trent is not seeing any particular benefit from the EU, and that they've also been left to rot by London, which makes it easy for a pack of liars to persuade them to vote "Leave". So, if there's a real will to mend the bridges that have been burnt (which I'm not sure there is) there has to be a way for the people in Stoke to also get a benefit from the EU like the Londoners do.
The other option is simply to let the super-cities leverage their network, scale, etc. economies to further depopulate and impoverish less successful ones, so that the next time Stoke-on-Trent is a village with 1,000 people which is irrelevant to a future referendum's result.
Let this also be a warning sign for the US, where you live. Trump has built his supporter base in the same malcontents that have fueled this "Leave" campaign: people fed up of elites and "elite servants" living in mega-cities, looking at them above the shoulder and making jokes about them.
Thanks for the write up!
Great write-up. We just need a plan now for moving forward, that benefits all the people of the UK. I just don't see one at the moment. Time will tell.
That was a really helpful and concise explanation, @Logseman. Thanks!
It's not so much that the UK is a laughingstock... It's that those of us in the US are wincing in sympathy at the way racism and xenophobia are exploding over there as well as over here.
I wouldn't say the U.K. is so much a laughing stock as much as the Leave movement is. I mean, from what I heard the leader of Leave in Wales even said "Wales needs EU levels of funding from England." Then why did you leave!? Cornwall's lead Leaver said exactly the same from what I understand. And far as I've heard, England has a habit of straight up ignoring everyone else anyhow. You set yourself on fire, and now you're asking someone else to put you out.
The people, however, I can't really say are much of a laughing stock 'cause they're now dealing with a recession caused by David Cameron giving the Referendum a go for some extra votes for himself as I've heard. But then there's the ones that are saying "Wait! I didn't think we would actually leave! And it's hard to not be angry at them, too.