Give them time, it'll sink in eventually, there's only so much reality denial can soak up before it becomes overwhelmed.
This situation we're all in is likely to degrade before it gets better, so they'll have all the time they need. Anybody who was expecting a brief blip on the markets before it's all back to normal, has no concept of the enormity of what has happened and/or how complex it's going to be to sort out.
The fact that pro remain are presenting reasoned arguments based on the workings of real economic and financial machinery in this thread, whilst pro leave are citing the astronomical significance of "giant noodle monsters", market manipulation conspiracy and asking for the thread to be closed or moved due to offended sensitivities, says perhaps more than they might like it to on reflection.
Just shy of 50% wasn't it? Observations :-
It's strange you know, when governments in other countries force half the country to do something they don't want to, we call it dictatorship, but here in Britain we call it democracy.
Nigel Farage made no small point of the fact that a marginal result would justify a second referendum, yet he's been expectedly quiet about that since the result. It's a shame you know, because if he hadn't said that, he could be having a great time now telling everybody that democracy has spoken and how the "will of the people" must be respected.
Boris could not jump quickly enough, at the chance to weasel out of leading Britain into the bright and prosperous future he sold everybody throughout his campaign, he moved with such speed that he almost broke the universe. Maybe he's just modest and didn't want to take all the credit? And where did he go after the result? Maybe he wanted to get in quick and buy a 1080 before the prices shot up.
David Cameron could not have resigned more quickly from his post if there was a stick of dynamite up his backside. Though, I can't say I blame him, nobody wants to be remembered for nestling Britain into a prolonged economic depression, at least not at the same time as losing Britain's relationship with one of the world's largest economies down the back of the sofa and losing Scotland to the almost inevitable independence vote to come. One. of. the. worst... prime-ministerial legacies in British history, he could've accidentally dropped a book on the button and been remembered more fondly (obviously an exaggeration, but it paints a picture). I wonder how much time he's spent contemplating the soundness in his judgement of not specifying a voting margin? Or in deciding that he thought holding a public referendum about ANYTHING, on the back of a prolonged period of austerity was a good idea, or barely 2 minutes into stabilization following one of the worse global economic crisis' the planet earth has ever witnessed? Or for being stupid enough to propose "come on Britain, follow me and do... well nothing really, just follow me, I don't even know why I'm doing it, I think I just need some more risk you know."
George Osborne has just come out of hiding in a bunker somewhere and told the country, "nope the deals off, we have two chances of clearing the deficit now, fat and slim and slim's out of town." Because if he didn't know, somewhere deep down that it wasn't possible before, he b***dy does now. I wonder whether he's thanked his mate Dave for tendering his resignation and getting him off the hook for a few months?
/Sorry about that, I'm deep behind enemy lines here, so I haven't been able to talk about it very often.
