What's going to happen?

Doesn't it seem like a fast slide down the other side?

I used to be a fan of direct democracy. L et the people decide, not the politicians. Sounds great on the face of it, and if we get a "bad" result, tough, that's democracy, the people chose. I feel so saddened by the June 23rd decision by the people of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland though. Sad for my children's future and sad for the message my fellow countrymen have sent to Europeans and the rest of the world. Some proportion of "Leave" voters are just petty racists who "want their country back". They are not going to get what they want. They live with people from all over the world. Their next-door-neighbours, their own family members, themselves. Just in case any of those people read this, for your information the only humans on planet Earth who are not immigrants live in the Rift Valley in Kenya or Southern Africa. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/09/150911-hominin-hominid-berger-homo-naledi-fossils-a...

Days before the referendum Farage indicated that if the result was 48/52 for remain, he would challenge for another referendum. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nigel-farage-eu-referendum_uk_576e6585e4b08d2c56393f12 Well the result went the other way, but the people have spoken, few think we should simply ask the question again. On the day of the result, leaders of Leave were questioning two major promises made during the campaign - £350 million a week for the NHS and whether immigration from Europe would change in any way if the UK left. We have become used to politicians "lying" in general elections. Regardless of the fact trying to appeal to as wide an audience as possible is not always directly "lying", general elections ask more complex questions, with candidates from up to a dozen parties putting their personalities as well as policies to the electorate in each of 660 constituencies, national parties promising slightly different things. It seems to me tha...