^ I have a few pounds I can give you.
^ LOL I literally just texted my mom and asked if we had a stash of pounds anywhere.
“LOL I literally just texted my mom and asked if we had a stash of pounds anywhere.”
I have a coffee can full. I gave some to my friend who was here a few weeks ago. She said she’d use them to buy lottery tickets once she got home.
Down 11.25%
Sharpest single day fall ever.
They just called it- Leave to win.
There goes the shoe budget.
Why? Do you need toilet paper?
No, my shoe budget depends on other factors. :). Sadly, my retirement accounts do not.
Asia is down 3-4%. Not looking good. Nasdaq futures are off 4%.
@nottelling it was more of a “I hope we don’t have any pounds anymore” since we traded them all in a while ago. I clearly expected people to read my mind in order to understand that statement. Oops… 
So what happens now? I know this isn’t legally binding so…?
For a little comic relief, did anyone see the Telegraph’s story about Lindsay Lohan’s earnest and passionate live Tweeting of the count of the vote? Surreal! We should have invited her to join our thread.
I wish I would have bet on this. I was one of the smaller number of people who thought it was going to be “leave”.
Sold a little bit in the market today, though should have trusted my gut and sold like crazy.
My former co-MIL is English and was passionate about staying In. Her district went 70% to leave (Teeside, in the far north).
DH deals with international currency regulators and is in Europe right now. Can’t imagine the chaos that is about to ensue in his corner of the universe. The exit polls are all saying that economics had relatively little to do with people’s decisions on which way to vote.
This is definitely a wake-up call that fear and bigotry can actually fuel elections results that are againt the voters’ interests, no matter how improbable the results may seem. SHUDDER.
I dunno. Is it really fear and bigotry? The British are strong, independent people, they always have been. Maybe they value their sovereignty and the ability to control their borders. Is that fear and bigotry?
But honestly, I have not followed this at all.
@busdriver11 yes, a lot of the “exit” people are part of well-known racist groups who wanted, among other things, to stop all immigration and kick out the (mostly non-white) immigrants already there.
That’s why MP Jo Cox was killed. She was passionately pro-immigration and the waste-of-flesh who killed her screamed “Britain First”- a racist and xenophobic group and also the rallying cry of many pro-exit people.
I admit, I have not been following this news. Is the migrant crisis and Merkel partly to blame.?
The pound is looking like a cheap trip to England could be had just now.
Fear & bigotry? Or just exasperation over EU dictates on the curvature of bananas?
Lol, my predictive ability on the Brexit vote is as bad as my predictive ability of stocks.
Brexit. Trump. Marie Le Pen. Racist nationalism in Eastern/Central Europe. Brazil. Mexico.
Is it too alarmist to think that the whole world has gone nuts?
Here is your theme song for the moment:
Of course, not all people that wanted to exit are racists, etc but I don’t know of any racist groups who wanted to stay in the EU…
Bus, it’s fear. In many voters’ minds, it was a vote to close the borders.
It will be very interesting from a US perspective because it will provide a preview of what may happen here. For example, we’ll get to see how easy or difficult it is for the UK to renegotiate every single trade deal it has with countries throughout the world, as one of our US presidential candidates hopes to do. Or the effect on a country’s currency when the electorate thrusts their country into uncertainty. My guess is that it will be a mess, and it could have an impact on how some Americans vote in November.