BREXIT vote aftermath

[Guest]

What is a keyboard warrior without a keyboard?

Nicola Sturgeon said Scotland could veto UK exit from EU.

Ooooh I seee. ^ She's like that mum that's like 'YEAH KIDS BREAK ALL THE RULES, I'LL BE COOL WITH YOU!'

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Jeremy Corbyn facing Labour leadership crisis as Hilary Benn and Heidi Alexander lead Brexit shadow cabinet revolt

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-corbyn-labour-brexit-hilary-benn-heidi-alexander-latest-eu-referendum-shadow-cabinet-a7103986.html

Jeremy Corbyn now faces the fight of his life to hold to his job as Labour leader, only nine months after winning an overwhelming mandate from party members with almost 60 per cent of the vote.

Fewer than 20 of Labour’s 230 MPs backed him, and so it was only a matter of time before the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) tried to remove him. His critics were split between those, like Hilary Benn and Heidi Alexander, who agreed to serve in the Shadow Cabinet and other “refuseniks” like the defeated leadership candidate Yvette Cooper, who went to the backbenches.

A mass resignation from the Shadow Cabinet was always a powerful weapon in the locker of Corbyn’s critics. They almost deployed it during last autumn’s debate over whether to extend air strikes against Isis to Syria, but Corbyn headed off a walkout by conceding a free vote.

Benn and Alexander, who impressed as shadow Health Secretary, have quit amid the turmoil engulfing both main parties following last week’s EU referendum. Other resignations from Corbyn’s top team will follow soon.

Sacking Benn for allegedly plotting against him will have been a painful moment for Corbyn. Tony Benn, Hilary’s late father, was Corbyn’s mentor and hero and he still thinks about him all the time. Hilary was always a “Benn, not a Bennite” but he and Corbyn have a shared history going back a long way to political discussions in the Benn family home in London.

For months, the anti-Corbyn forces have agonised over when to mount their inevitable coup. The May local elections came and went. Although Labour secured only mixed results, the losses were not as bad as experts had predicted and so Corbyn survived.

Hilary Benn on the Andrew Marr show: "Corbyn is a good man but he's not a leader"

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Scottish PM Nicola Sturgeon was interviewed by Marr too

What if UK PM refused to allow another Scottish referendum? BBC News

“It’s not acceptable, and I would caution any future PM against putting themselves in that position” Nicola Sturgeon tells Andrew Marr

[Guest]

Anybody ever eaten a Sturgeon?

[Guest]

[pieciolot]

Where is Boris? where is Gove? They've gone awfully quiet since Friday. Maybe Boris realised that it was a fucking stupid way to get to number 10 as it looks like no one knows what to do next. Cameron already washed his hands and no one wants to take over.

[Love Spent]

Anybody ever eaten a Sturgeon?

You can eat those ugly things?

[pieciolot]

What is a keyboard warrior without a keyboard?

Ooooh I seee. ^ She's like that mum that's like 'YEAH KIDS BREAK ALL THE RULES, I'LL BE COOL WITH YOU!'

I don't think she's suggesting anything illegal.

[Guest Rachelle of London]

I highly doubt that would be possible.

There's gonna be these "threats" to have a vote to leave for another 5 years at least.

[MeakMaker]

What is a keyboard warrior without a keyboard?

Ooooh I seee. ^ She's like that mum that's like 'YEAH KIDS BREAK ALL THE RULES, I'LL BE COOL WITH YOU!'

You're truly something man. She's not playing mom she's thinking about the furture for her country. Scotland benifetted more from 20 years in the EU than much longer in the UK. Even if they won independence from the UK they would have always been an EU state. That was never the issue because Scotland thrives on the EU and now they are out. You just trolling man...

[billiejean]

Don't rule out a second EU referendum, says Tony Blair as more than 3million sign petition demanding a re-run and Labour MP calls for Commons to overturn result

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3660689/Don-t-rule-second-EU-referendum-says-Tony-Blair-3million-sign-petition-demanding-run-Labour-MP-calls-Commons-overturn-result.html#ixzz4CgnoSgK0

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[Guest Rachelle of London]

I wonder if we'll have another general election?

[pieciolot]

Nicola Sturgeon seems to be the only politician with some balls at the moment.

[Guest Rachelle of London]

I like Nicola Sturgeon. Always have done.

[Apples388]

I love her, she's a Queen!

[Guest Pud Whacker]

A Hummunbird Ate My Flower

https://www.yahoo.com/news/johannesson-leads-icelands-presidential-vote-partial-result-000003789.html?ref=gs

[MeakMaker]

I wonder if we'll have another general election?

Well, how else are they going to get it together? We are without a prime minister. The two biggest parties in the country are in turmoil. The Leave voices have been heard loud and clear but this was not a football match where in the end who wins or loses is not going to change anything. This was about the future of a country. They will be massively disappointed when reality will tell them they chose wrong.. Who are they going to blame after?

Farage is actually quite surprisingly trying to sway the same people he tried so hard to brainwash.. He's actually saying a new referendum could be a necessity because the results were way too close to dismiss the In vote. Thing is people like Boris and Farage and the famous faces backing Leave they did it out of spite for the UK government not because they truly believed getting out of the EU was actually a good thing. They did it for their 5 minutes of fame. They didn't expect people would actually go and vote for the Leave vote. This is why they're now in turmoil with no directions, no real leadership. None wants to take responsibility for this mess. Simple as that.. That's why everybody is quitting now. They're abandoning the sinking ship. I'd say the people who represented the Leave vote to take care of the country but seeing how bad these people are I could never trust them. Those people are dangerous.

[Guest Rachelle of London]

I agree 100% Meak maker

[karbatal]

Don't rule out a second EU referendum, says Tony Blair as more than 3million sign petition demanding a re-run and Labour MP calls for Commons to overturn result

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3660689/Don-t-rule-second-EU-referendum-says-Tony-Blair-3million-sign-petition-demanding-run-Labour-MP-calls-Commons-overturn-result.html#ixzz4CgnoSgK0

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What's this joke? Two decades moaning about the building of the real union, leading euroscepticism, going the PM all cocky to Brussels to make deals in favour of UK "or I will support brexit", trying to block citizens from certain EU countries to enter there, making a referendum and people wanting out...

And now this??? Who is ruling that country, a bunch of spoilt children???

[Gaudet]

Racist incidents feared to be linked to Brexit result

People have been reporting incidents of racism believed to be fuelled by the result of the EU referendum, including alleged racist graffiti and cards reading “no more Polish vermin” posted through letterboxes.

Suspected racist graffiti was found on the front entrance of the Polish Social and Cultural Association (POSK) in Hammersmith, west London, early on Sunday morning.

The Metropolitan police confirmed they had been called to the cultural centre on Sunday morning and were pursuing inquiries related to “allegedly racially motivated criminal damage”.

Neither POSK nor the police would confirm the content of the message, which has since been washed off.

The incident comes as Cambridgeshire police are investigating reports of racist laminated cards being distributed in Huntingdon on Friday in the hours after the leave result was announced.

According to reports from the Cambridge News, a number of cards saying “Leave the EU/No more Polish vermin” in both English and Polish were found outside St Peter’s school by teaching assistants and students, including an 11-year-old Polish child, who reported they made him feel “really sad”.

Cards bearing the same message were posted around a number of properties, police confirmed.

Labour MP Jess Phillips announced on Twitter that she would be putting in a parliamentary question to find out the numbers of reported instances of racial hatred in the UK in the weekend following the Brexit vote, compared with last week.

In Gloucester, Max Fras said he was in a Tesco supermarket on Friday night with his young son when a white man became agitated in the queue for the checkout and began yelling: “This is England now, foreigners have 48 hours to fuck right off. Who is foreign here? Anyone foreign?”

Fras said the man began quizzing people in the queue about where they were from. “He pointed at another gentleman in front of him and said: ‘Where are you from, are you Spanish? Are you Italian? Are you Romanian?’ And he said ‘No, I’m English’,” said Fras.

Fras, a Polish consultant in European educational projects who lives in London, said he was concerned about what incidents like this might mean for those like him who have moved from the EU to Britain.

Other reports of racist incidents believed to be fuelled by the Brexit result, were posted on social media, including one from Heaven Crawley, a research professor at Coventry University, about an incident allegedly witnessed by her daughter in Birmingham.

“This evening my daughter left work in Birmingham and saw [a] group of lads corner a Muslim girl shouting ‘Get out, we voted leave’,” she posted on Twitter.

Welsh businesswoman and remain campaigner Shazia Awan was told by Warren Faulkner to pack her bags and go home after she expressed disappointment in the leave result. Awan, who was born in the UK, tweeted a reply that in her view the “campaign was vile and racist” and had “ruined [the] country forever”.

Earlier that day, Faulkner had celebrated the referendum result as a “major victory for the right wing, adding: “Oi Muslims pack your bags”.

Many of the reports of incidents seem to show the mistaken belief that EU citizens living in the UK will be forced to leave the country as a result of the referendum result, with instances reported of a Polish woman being told to get off a bus and “get packing”, of a Polish man being told at an airport that he “shouldn’t still be here, that we had voted to be rid of people like him”, of a Polish coffee shop worker being jeered at and told “you’re going home now” and of Polish children at a primary school crying because they were scared of getting deported from Britain.

In a photograph published to Twitter, one man in Romford was shown wearing a T-shirt reading: “Yes! We won! Now send them back”.

Channel 4 journalist Ciaran Jenkins said that while reporting from Barnsley on Friday in the hours after the referendum results were announced, he overheard three different people shout “send them home” in five minutes.

A man wrote on Twitter that he had experienced two “racialised altercations” in the 10 hours after the referendum result, which he believed were connected to it. One alleged incident involved men chanting “Out, out, out” at Muslim women and in another he said a man at King’s Cross station “yells ‘Brexit’ in my south Asian friend’s face”.

Courtney Wright wrote on Twitter on Friday that her mother witnessed “a group of people verbally attack a Polish woman telling her to fuck off back to her own country and that ‘we’ve won’”.

Full story: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/26/racist-incidents-feared-to-be-linked-to-brexit-result-reported-in-england-and-wales

[Guest Pud Whacker]

Polish vermin?!!!

[MeakMaker]

I'm so sad and sympathetic towards the polish people in England. They are actually quite hard working and I don't know of any of them actually being here and depending on benefits or state handouts. My best friend's girlfriend is Polish. She's devastated as she feels so unwelcome at the minute. I told her this is only a minority in this country but the Leave vote winning is actually saying a different story. I still refuse to believe most English people would support ideas of racism and xenophobia. I think people are unhappy and confused and didn't think this thing through.

[Raider of the lost Ark]

I'm so sad and sympathetic towards the polish people in England. They are actually quite hard working and I don't know of any of them actually being here and depending on benefits or state handouts. My best friend's girlfriend is Polish. She's devastated as she feels so unwelcome at the minute. I told her this is only a minority in this country but the Leave vote winning is actually saying a different story. I still refuse to believe most English people would support ideas of racism and xenophobia. I think people are unhappy and confused and didn't think this thing through.

The problem is that British people were told so many lies. I saw a report on TV that was questioning if it was really true that all those immigrants costing the NHS so much money. The conclusion was NO. It this for a simple fact. A fact that has been ignored all along or that no one wanted to discuss. Most immigrants, especially from Poland or the Baltic states, are young people, young families. Usually younger people are much more healthy and don't need to see the doctor or hospital for treatment. We all know that many diseases come with age and treatment cost much more than a flu. It has been said over and over again, immigrants contribute more money to society through taxes than they take from benifits. Unfortunately people rather listened to the lies and even the most ridiculous statements like some politician who said people need to wait 13 weeks for treatment of an apendicitis.

[Gaudet]

Brexit racist blowback: Muslim women targeted for abuse after EU referendum vote Remain campaigner Shazia Awan, a Welsh businesswoman, was told to "pack her bags and go home".

Muslim women and girls are facing racist abuse in the wake of the historic Brexit vote – reportedly feeling "alienated" in the country they were born in.

Remain campaigner Shazia Awan, a Welsh businesswoman, was told to "pack her bags and go home" following the vote to leave the EU won by a majority on Friday.

Wales was one of the main areas in the UK where the Leave campaign was successful with 854,572 votes (52.5%) compared to 772,347 votes (47.5%) in the Remain camp.

Awan now fears one of the consequences of the referendum campaign, which saw Nigel Farage controversially pose in front of queue of a Syrian refugees, will be a rise in racist abuse.

She had written on Twitter: "Don't see how this country can heal itself. The UK is my home yet I feel alienated," to which Warren Faulkner, whose Twitter handle is @foggyneiinfidel, responded: "Great news...you can pack your bags, you're going home...BYE THEN."

In shock, she tweeted: "Campaign was vile and racist. #Euref has ruined country forever – someone just even told me to go home and am born in the UK."

Awan also told the Independent she witnessed a white man calling a woman a "n*****" in Cardiff after she accused her of voting to stay in Europe and the victim had felt that she could not report it as a hate crime.

"Every ethnic minority, every decent person, everyone who is in a mixed race relationship or from a black, Asian minority ethnic background are going to feel this now. Now start the vile tweets," she said.

A worried mother on Friday tweeted how her daughter saw a Muslim girl was targeted by a group of boys in Birmingham telling her to leave the country.

Labour MP Seema Malhotra said on Saturday she was"personally devastated" at the Brexit vote and wanted to assure firms "Britain was still open for business" and that people were worried about community relations.

Other incidents included a British-born Asian who contacted a London radio talk show who claimed she was harassed by a man bellowing nationalist slogans whilst shopping with her child and reports of Muslim schools being targeted for low-level abuse.

Cambridgeshire Police are also investigating after signs reading 'Leave the EU - No more Polish vermin' were posted through doors in shocking post-referendum racism.

Laminated cards were reportedly delivered to members of the Polish community in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.

They were also found on the road near St Peter's School at around 8.30am on Friday, with a translation on the back reading 'go home Polish scum.'

Meanwhile an account on Twitter has been set up, entitled Post Ref Racism, for people to report the rise in racism in the UK following the Brexit vote.

Full story: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/racist-brexit-blowback-muslim-women-targeted-abuse-after-eu-referendum-vote-1567421

[karbatal]

We spend 90% of money from health system when we reach more than 65. If anyone is sponging the HS those are the more than 800.000 British people who use the Spanish one and are all retired here hahaha. And nobody here wants to get rid of them.

Only racist people use that health system excuse. Disgusting to be fair

[Guest Rachelle of London]

UKIP representative to Clacton said we should reach out to people that are upset and he wants to organise Hug a Migrant Day

WTF!

[MeakMaker]

And funny thing the NHS is going to suffer the most without the strength of the EU. People were told certain facts now and then but their hate for immigrants always painted as a threat by the mainstream media brainwashed people mind. I refuse to believe Engalnd is a racist country! Ignorant and stupid yes but NOT racist.

[karbatal]

It's always impossible to define a country by what people vote or the politicians. Lots of British people will be open hearted and lots of Spanish or Italian people will be stupid and racist.

The thing is that until several years ago most immigration came from Commonwealth countries or ex colonies. It's the new immigrants the ones who seem to be a problem for some politicians and citizens there.

[Guest]

UKIP representative to Clacton said we should reach out to people that are upset and he wants to organise Hug a Migrant Day

WTF!

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Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said Boris Johnson and the LEAVE campaigners have made unrealistic promises to British voters and that those thinking there won't have to be a trade off with Brussels between full access to the single market and a deal on immigration/refugee crisis are seriously mistaken.