So it kind of sucks being in the UK right now.

[The Curmudgeon]

You'll no doubt have heard if you're not in the UK, and if you ARE in the UK there's no way you missed it, but the UK are now out of the EU. And what a poisonous atmosphere we are in right now.

For one, no-one expected it to actually happen. Sure, there were discussions and "remain" campaigns and all that, but when I voted to stay I thought it was pretty much a guarantee that we wouldn't vote ourselves out of the EU. But then I hadn't imagined that finger pointing, racism and paranoia were so powerful in Britain. Because that's what it turned out to be all about in the end.

I'm no political expert by any means, but when you've got far right racist parties celebrating in the streets with the result.. yeah, that's not good. Those are the bad guys. And the bad guys won.

So now in the UK the media is pretty much asking us to bring out our dead. The pound is at the lowest its ever been. No-one knows whats going to happen. A recession is seemingly inevitable. There are memes about how fucked Britain is now.

Yeah. This is not good.

[trashcanman]

Admit it, you dicks. You just did this to steal our thunder from having Donald Trump as the presidential frontrunner mere months from election day. Such haters, the Brits. "Oh, look, the colonies are electing a blatantly racist reality show/professional celebrity shithead as their president. Well we're going to crash our own economy and bring about World War III first! SUCK IT, YANKS!"

[The Curmudgeon]

Hey, at least you've got people that want to be in power, albeit an orange maniac. You see the shit going down in the UK? After the referendum vote, we lost our Prime Minister, the Mayor who was rumoured to take over from him backed away saying he didn't want it and the guy campaigning for the Independent Vote has stepped down after getting it. No one wants any of our fucking noise. Beat that.

[trashcanman]

I tend to avoid the news so I don't know many details, but that is hilarious. How did a government filled with people presumably pushing this idea forward suddenly decide they want no part of it once it actually passed? Was it like some kind of running joke that went too far?