Does anyone else feel genuinely depressed about Brexit.

How many Algerians did the French murder?

This is a silly argument. How many native Australians and New Zealanders did the English murder? This is all a long time ago and totally irrelevant.

That being said, I would agree that I suspect the French would be even more anti-EU than the British if given a similar vote.

How many Algerians did the French murder?

Wasn't really an argument. Just a question.

It was only 60 years ago.

Several dozens of thousands died in a war that ended in 1962. 54 years ago.

The Brits weren't kind with revolts in their colonies as well.

You asked me "So what?" and I told you "so what".

Movement of jobs is because of access to the single market!

Sod all to do with markets falling or rising, of course the markets are going to dip after this. The thing you need to bring you back up in the long term is industry and investment and we've just taken a big step towards making ourselves un-investable. And yes jobs will be lost in several places because of this. Hurrah.

I don't mean to be insulting (and I know this usually precedes something insulting) but I honestly don't think you appreciate the actual economic situation in the world. If I were an international bank, or indeed an international company I'd be moving my money away too.

Assuming we will maintain an economic status quo in this country seems very naive given the fact that, like I said, we're at best hoping to maintain the status quo out of any negotiations. At best we're going to have a dip and then try to scrape our way back to where we were back on the 23rd of June before this self-inflicted blow was dealt. I honestly think if people actually understood what they'd voted for there's no way this would have happened.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a3a92744-3a52-11e6-9a05-82a9b15a8ee7.html
http://news.efinancialcareers.com/uk-en/248265/london-banking-redundancies-brexit/

Nearly half of our exports go to the EU. We rely on it for a significant portion of our financial services industry.

I wonder why you are not worried at all, given the deep pile of **** (predictably) piling up as a consequence of this. At best we are hoping to re-negotiate the status quo against sides who frankly have leverage, and numbers.

And the UK will still be able to sell in the EU. Europeans don't want their trade to fall.
An un-investable country is North Korea or Zimbabwe. Investments may be reduced for a few years but they won't vanish.
The economic situation in the world is terrible. Everywhere. This is why investors are ready to pay negative rates on the German debt. As they cannot move their money to a country with a solid growth, they may keep it in the UK, which is not a terrible place after all, especially when you compare it with countries such as Italy or Spain.
It will depend on the next government. My main concern is about the ability of the British government to carry all the trade negotiations and the new legislation. Not sure Boris can do that.

I think you are living in an anglo-centric delusion about how much 'power' the UK has against 27 countries who have no reason to grant us anything.

I really feel Brexiters have ****ed my life and in the process earnt... nothing. A damned international reputation where we hate all foreign people to the point we'd rather poo on ourselves.

I'm French. I really think that the UK is quite powerful when I see the politicians that we have here, compared to yours.
Without the British, there is an economic crisis in Spain and a new contagion to the rest of the EU (hence why the Spanish market has plunged by 12% on Friday). European leaders have absolutely no interest in punishing the UK and will try to save everything they can from the current trade partnership.
As I said earlier, I don't see this as a vote against me. Many Europeans would have liked to be able to vote as the British on the EU, but they have been denied that chance, or worse, their vote has been disregarded.
The EU has failed. It promised prosperity, but those who voted Leave did not see it.

I spent 36 hours researching this in detail, I was well aware of what it entailed. We are not all knuckle dragging imbeciles like you seem to think.


Freedom from a supra national organisation with an unelected leadership. I am glad It happened like this, as if we had remained there could have been some serious instability when the EU would start to fully evolve into a nation state.

Seek professional help.

If that is really true, which honestly I feel sceptical of, then I think you are equally ignorant to the power that the EU actually wields. It's 27 countries against one in this instance, and the UK is basically now in a desperate situation. If you think the UK has leverage in this situation, I honestly think you are sorely mistaken.

The British have nothing to do with an economic crisis in Spain. The Spanish are suffering thanks to the single currency and stagnation of their economy, there's nothing the British can or will do which will affect that. We were never part of the single currency.

As for the whole prosperity from the EU bullcrap, the EU promised continuing growth, and potentially prosperity. Clearly this was a dreadful and un-nationalistic ordeal. Luckily we've voted to disable our major industries all of our own accord without the EU having to help out, so I guess if those who voted Leave did not see it, perhaps we should have sent them to fricking Specsavers.