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So how are we supposed to feel now that we're on a path to leaving the EU, if indeed we ever leave?

King of the Sausage People

Well, things are getting interesting. The Conservative scrap-in-the-mud which will be the leadership election is underway, and Boris Johnson has ruled himself out of the running [source]. That leaves Michael Gove, a man who is not exactly well remembered for his services to the Education sector, Jeremy Hunt (ahem) who is not exactly well remembered for his services to the NHS. Then there's Theresa May of the snooper's charter, Stephen Crabb who thinks that homosexuality is a disease [source], Liam Fox, who "was found to have breached the ministerial code over his working relationship with his friend and self-styled adviser Adam Werrity" [source] and Andrea Leadsom who I'd happily hit with a shovel [no source required].

Jeremy Corbyn doing the shopping

So if the Tories are in turmoil, who will put up a fight for the British people? Surely the Labour Party with its working class support and history of social representation? Ah. Erm...well, that's not going great either. The incumbent leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has faced a vote of no confidence of 172:40 yet refuses to stand down based on the overwhelming support of Labour members [source]. So then, we'll be having a leadership contest here too.

UKIP are also in a bit of trouble [source].

The Liberal Democrats are fighting on the basis of either keeping Britain in the EU or taking us back into it [source]. However, they only have eight MPs and everyone seems to remember their 'breaking of a promise' over university tuition fees when they were in coalition with the Tories between 2010 and 1025, so whether or not they can command any kind of political might is far from certain.

The SNP is in talks with Gibraltar [source], the EU [source] and Northern Ireland [source] about how to keep itself in the bloc, and all credit to them they seem to be doing a good job of it. So not only is Britain set to leave the EU, the United Kingdom may well be torn to pieces in the process.

Meanwhile, the EU itself is fighting like mad to seem in control of this whole sorry situation. Nigel Garage has said it is 'finished' [source]. The glee with which he delivers this statement is highly concerning in the least. As if we didn't already think the bug-eyed cock-rocket was up to no good, it now seems that he's exercising some kind of personal vendetta against the Union, born of his undeniably racist tendencies, one must assume. How this uncouth, pisshead blabbermouth is allowed to walk the streets unnerves me. What a twat, seriously.

Britain, you let this tosser win. Bad call. [source]

So what about the financial implications? Though the markets seem to be recovering now that things have cooled off (remember, we haven't actually left yet!) [source], Sterling is still down at $1.35, whereas it was at $1.50 before the vote. Vodafone are considering relocating their HQ [source], BT's shares have dropped 10% [source] and a number of other companies are facing similar, if not worse, conditions with economic growth forecasts being hastily reduced [source]. The President of the United States of America, Barack Obama has warned of the economic impacts [source] and has stood by his warning that Britain will be 'at the back of the queue' when it comes to negotiating new trade deals [source]. But at least the 'special relationship' is untarnished. Maybe we can use it to feed our kids or build all the new hospitals, now that we're not getting £350m per week? Oh, no, we won't be getting any new hospitals because Garage will have packed all the staff up and sent them home.
 One last point, the amount of money wiped off the global economy has now reached $3 trillion [source]. Pocket change, really.

What is interesting is how many of the above sources come from the Daily Telegraph, who were all for leaving.

So this is where we are. Domestic politics is a mess, international politics is a mess, and the economy is fuckarooed. But surely it's time we all just sucked it down, rolled up our sleeves and made this deal work for Britain, right? Wrong.

Firstly, there is no fucking deal. There's nothing to make work for Britain yet. Until there's some kind of cogent plan, what is there to do?

Secondly, I feel like the younger generation, who will have to live with this ball-sack of a situation for the longest, have been fucked out of a future by a bunch of people who, on the whole, won't be massively effected by it [a well articulated explanation]. Why should we just sit back and let this happen? People should fight for their rights and their opportunities.

Thirdly, Nigel 'I'm not a racist but' Garage said before the result, when the little fucker thought he'd lost, that he'd keep fighting until he got the result he wanted. I called him a wanker then and I do so now, but the little arse-scratcher had a point. You can bet your life UKIP would have been shouting about vote rigging, unfair practice and probably blaming it all on the Polish. Admittedly we don't require that kind of arse-crackery, but we should still stick up for ourselves.

Fourthly, we have power in Europe to change it for the good. Now many people will say that individual member states have no power and get dragged along by the whole. Now even though this displays a complete unfamiliarity with Britain's experience, here is an example of how member states can enact change over the most serious and fundamental EU legislation, namely the French and Ductch public voting against:

"The Lisbon Treaty was drafted as a replacement for the Constitutional Treaty which was rejected by French and Dutch voters in 2005." [source]

Fifthly, isn't the whole point of politics that we campaign for what we want, to get the change that we believe we need? The leave voters would desperately like to come up with a rebuttal to this, but without such a principle they wouldn't have got their way, Garage would be face down in a beer filled ashtray (again) and we wouldn't be in this sorry bloody mess in the first place.

Right, that'll do for the day. If you're sick of this ranting, I can highly recommend my other blog here for some light relief.