We may have taken their football team, but we will never take their FRRRRREEEEEEEDDDOOOOOOOMMMMM!

I want to change my answer to fully automated luxury communism - the obvious next step after a universal guaranteed income that tracks the poverty line - an essential requirement in a world of increasing automation where there will never be jobs for what was once the working class, immigration or not.

I can only hope that the punishment beating from the EU will be implementation of the Universal Basic Income.

Or, if there was sufficient existing will in the town, it could simply be annexed, in some Putinesqe like move, a bit like Crimea? I mean, that one seems to have gone ahead despite all the rhetoric.

As a natural Lib Dem I'm gratified that Tim Farron has said he would go into the coming general election (I'm assuming we get one in the autumn) campaigning on a platform of not allowing brexit. On that statement they've added 6k new members in two days.



There is a slow but creeping message from a multitude of places, that regardless of the fact that 52% of people have taken delight in having no measurable brain activity, we shouldn't let this exit happen.

If it doesn't happen there will be riots. If it does, there will also be riots.



Personally I'm just glad we did something that warrants its own chapter in The Decline and Fall of Western Civilisation.

This is why I find it risible that political luminaries such as Jennifer Saunders tells her 100k fans on Facebook that we should all be polite and pull together. I can't emphaise enough to people that the twee "keep calm and carry on" is applicable after a minor flood, or a cat up a tree, but wholly inappropriate to civil war.



Because to me, the seismic nature of the rift in this country is as close to the effects of civil war as it is to the partisan aftermath of a contentious general election. It suits brexiteers to chalk this attitude to melodrama, but I believe it to be true nontheless.

That is the truest thing you have said. It's just the beginning.



I want my country back.

Imagine their petty, small minded faces when the dawning realisation that no veto on Turkish membership means the exact thing they we're crowing and shouting about stopping is going to happen only now they can do Jack Sh1t to stop it...

Three weeks ago Germany officially recognised the Armenian genocide as the historical fact that it is.



That right there was the nearest signal to a formal end of the long abandoned Turkish hopes of joining we're going to get. They've been pivoting to the near east since Erdogan came to power.



Turkey was the reddest red herring in the whole debate.

the right wing press who fermented the supposed threat of immigration, fear of forriners, rule by Brussels will ensure there is no going back.