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[Noblejanobii]

Bet you guys didn't know that Brexit was actually an anime. I'm a huge fan and last night's midseason finale blew my socks off! Here's a little summary for all of you lameos that haven't been paying attention to this AMAZING show.

Also, in case you losers also don't watch the Real Housewives of the White House Wannabees, here's your catch up here too.

[Fate]

I love this.

Spoiler:

[Pokemon Trainer Sarah]

Haha that's hilarious Fate. xD I read some theories that the UK might not actually leave.

If Boris Johnson looked downbeat yesterday, that is because he realises that he has lost.

Perhaps many Brexiters do not realise it yet, but they have actually lost, and it is all down to one man: David Cameron.

With one fell swoop yesterday at 9:15 am, Cameron effectively annulled the referendum result, and simultaneously destroyed the political careers of Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and leading Brexiters who cost him so much anguish, not to mention his premiership.

How?

Throughout the campaign, Cameron had repeatedly said that a vote for leave would lead to triggering Article 50 straight away. Whether implicitly or explicitly, the image was clear: he would be giving that notice under Article 50 the morning after a vote to leave. Whether that was scaremongering or not is a bit moot now but, in the midst of the sentimental nautical references of his speech yesterday, he quietly abandoned that position and handed the responsibility over to his successor.

And as the day wore on, the enormity of that step started to sink in: the markets, Sterling, Scotland, the Irish border, the Gibraltar border, the frontier at Calais, the need to continue compliance with all EU regulations for a free market, re-issuing passports, Brits abroad, EU citizens in Britain, the mountain of legislation to be torn up and rewritten ... the list grew and grew.

The referendum result is not binding. It is advisory. Parliament is not bound to commit itself in that same direction.

The Conservative party election that Cameron triggered will now have one question looming over it: will you, if elected as party leader, trigger the notice under Article 50?

Who will want to have the responsibility of all those ramifications and consequences on his/her head and shoulders?

Boris Johnson knew this yesterday, when he emerged subdued from his home and was even more subdued at the press conference. He has been out-manoeuvred and check-mated.

If he runs for leadership of the party, and then fails to follow through on triggering Article 50, then he is finished. If he does not run and effectively abandons the field, then he is finished. If he runs, wins and pulls the UK out of the EU, then it will all be over - Scotland will break away, there will be upheaval in Ireland, a recession ... broken trade agreements. Then he is also finished. Boris Johnson knows all of this. When he acts like the dumb blond it is just that: an act.

The Brexit leaders now have a result that they cannot use. For them, leadership of the Tory party has become a poison chalice.

When Boris Johnson said there was no need to trigger Article 50 straight away, what he really meant to say was "never". When Michael Gove went on and on about "informal negotiations" ... why? why not the formal ones straight away? ... he also meant not triggering the formal departure. They both know what a formal demarche would mean: an irreversible step that neither of them is prepared to take.

All that remains is for someone to have the guts to stand up and say that Brexit is unachievable in reality without an enormous amount of pain and destruction, that cannot be borne. And David Cameron has put the onus of making that statement on the heads of the people who led the Brexit campaign.

I thought it was pretty interesting. xD

Source: http://indy100.independent.co.uk/art...ue--bJhqBql0VZ

[Chakramaster]

Ugh, why do I have such little free time lately =.= I feel like with work and other business I've had much less time to be here lately. Oh well. It's life I guess xD

[Noblejanobii]

Well back to the internet less life! See you guys again soon!

[Fate]

Have fuuunn!

[Noblejanobii]

There is free wifi in the town square so hiiii!

[Suicune's Fire]

Everyone please put your paws together and say a little prayer for Xanthe. It's dentist time. v_v

[Neo Emolga]

Everyone please put your paws together and say a little prayer for Xanthe. It's dentist time. v_v

Oh Lord, please see to it that Xanthe's dentist visit is as painless as can be with no cavities. Let it be done as swiftly as can be so she can return to our virtual home from home happily. :)

[Pokemon Trainer Sarah]

Everyone please put your paws together and say a little prayer for Xanthe. It's dentist time. v_v

Good luck! ;_; I went yesterday for the first time in 8 years (oops) o_o

I need one filling and to get my wisdom teeth out. Could have been worse. xD