Brexit Vote

Uh-oh. Theresa May's government is about to face a no-confidence vote. 432 to 202 is a massive defeat for her.

Cripes. UK may be facing a no-plan exit. That would be ugly.

They've been facing it for weeks, but certain assholes - namely May and her "government" - have been pretending otherwise.

Looks like you got your wish.

Will her replacement be Jeremy Corbyn or Boris Johnson?

A lot of people really dislike Corbyn, but Johnson would be even worse. Corbyn isn't actually that bad, but the population's somewhat polarized, like over here.

Yeesh.  The brand-new Brexit Party won 29 of the 79 seats in the EU council, even though they advocate immediate withdrawal of the UK.  NPR interviewed one of the new councilmembers, who said millions of Brits feel disenfranchised by the major parties because they voted for Brexit and Theresa May has so far not delivered.

I have to admit I really don't understand the issues here.  Why do so many people want out of the EU?  What would be so bad about leaving without an "exit deal"?  What do the politicians hope to achieve in an exit plan?

Boris Johnson is the new PM, and promises to take Britain out of the EU even if there's no tidy exit deal. I confess I don't really know what that means.

Max Hastings wrote:

I have a hunch that Johnson will come to regret securing the prize for which he has struggled so long, because the experience of the premiership will lay bare his absolute unfitness for it.

Gosh that sounds familiar.

Apparently the waste effluent is about to hit the air recirculator.

Well, we've been saying it for months but it really looks like it's gonna happen next month.

What will this mean for the UK economy?  I've heard everything from armageddon to nada.

An observation from Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10157074098701731&set=a.10150192034986731&type=3&theater

Brexit is finally happening 11:00pm London time tonight. I confess I don't know enough about it to anticipate what the effects will be.

I've heard everything from Armageddon to meh. I don't know which to believe.

BREXIT -- the gift that keeps on giving -- looks like it'll end up with a "no deal" exit.  What does that even mean.

It means that rather than getting a bad deal, England will get screwed over by the rest of the world, thoroughly. Putin may have finally convinced me to move to France. And he may have made it impossible for me to do that. What a triumph - Trump as president and Brexit. The West has lost WW III and they didn't even realize they were fighting.

Trump won't be president much longer.

But Brexit appears to be permanent?

I think so. At the least, it will be a good while before anybody has the stomach for rejoining. Maybe in twenty years or so, when many of the current politicians have retired, and the grumpy old men who powered the leave vote have died off.