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Because Britain is Britain and Finland is Finland. Can you imagine that London would lose its position as the joint financial hub in the world together with Wall Street? Me neither. Britain will be treated differently and there will be a cordial break-up as both would only lose if they started a trade-war. Simultaneously the EU will tell Finland and similar minnows not to even think about doing likewise if they don't fancy the living standards of the 1950's.

Britain is a major important country and despite brexit both the EU and Britain have common interests; therefore the idea that the EU would somehow "revenge" is ludicrous as they possible couldn't do so without hurting themselves too. If a minor country like Finland quit the EU the revenge would totally annihilate Finland. No doubt about that. Therefore I am not warming up to some people's idea of having a similar referendum here. There's a world of difference between Britain and Finland.

Would bilingualism been ditched if the referendum in Quebec in 1995 had gone the other way?

Finland has a bit similar situation to Canada as we also have official bilingualism with Swedish being the second official language despite spoken only by about 5% of the population and them on narrow strips on the coastline. But it was the language of the elite, so what can you do. The difference to Canada is obviously that French also is a major global language which may come handy in many situations all around the world when as both Finnish and Swedish are dwarf-languages not understood outside Finland and Sweden(though the Swedes insist that Swedish is understood in Norway and Denmark as well)

Something has clearly happened behind the scenes. Today Boris Johnson said he won't be a candidate in the forthcoming party-leader's contest so he won't be PM. As the referendum was only advisory, not legally binding, and Kerry visited London yesterday and probably told the Brits that Brexit is just unacceptable it could well be that the article 50 will never be triggered.

It could be that nobody really wants to be the next PM of the United Kingdom as his or her job would be to trigger the article 50. It is a real possibility that the next weeks, months or even years as the deadline for finishing exit-negotiations is two years will be about quarrelling over the terms of departure. The EU itself is acting like an insulted and dumped lover who doesn't see anything wrong in own actions.

The Brits had a similar referendum in 1975 on the then-EEC and back then 67% of the voters wanted to stay. Unlikely that in 40 years people would have become more conservative and nationalist. Today's EU is just so different to the old EEC that people don't accept it. If the EU were solely a union based on international trade between the member-states a referendum would have been a waste of time.

I don't really understand the logic behind the move by Cameron to resign after the disappointing result but at the same time announcing that new leader will be elected in September especially when the Tories' MP-group elects the party-leader. Now the country is in a state of limbo for 2-3 months without an effective government. To make matters more complicated, the leader of the main opposition-party the Labour-party was sacked by his party for failing to promote the remain-campaign enough. The brexit got a lot of support in the traditional heartlands of the Labour-party. So in less than a week both main parties in the UK have gone into meltdown and the situation is a mess.

Both British main parties are cut down the middle concerning the EU-issue. That kind of rules out the idea of an early election. Cameron jumped out of the sinking ship and the Labour-party leader Corbyn is facing critisism over the issue. It must be said that the politicians surely haven't made this thing easier, especially Cameron whose move to quit was rather chicken-shit.

The young voters can blame only themselves; the turn-out in the 18-24 age-group was dismally low at 36%. I wonder how many youngsters who didn't bother to vote are now crying out loud how their future has been stolen. All in all, the Brexit is a bigger blow to the remaining EU than it is for Britain. It is laughable to suggest that a major important country and the world's fifth largest economy couldn't handle on its own outside the EU when minnows such as Iceland, Norway and Switzerland are doing just fine. It all comes to the exit-negotiations what kind of a deal will be reached between the EU and departing Britain. It would also be helpful to already know who's the next British PM who will lead the negotiations.

The reaction to the outcome of this referendum has been very unexceptional to say the least. Of course defeat and disappointment hurts but all manners seem to have been flushed down the toilet. The social media is full of whinging how old people who will die soon anyway voted for leave and ignorant country-people who have never ventured outside their little cosy villages did likewise. I honestly haven't observed any gloating from the winning side in the style of "Hahaa suckers you lost". That would hardly have been imaginable had the leave lost. Such was the derision towards the leave-side in the run-up of the vote and certainty of a victory.

We've already heard how 63% of the eligible voters didn't vote for leave. These people who make these statements forget to mention that even a larger number of voters didn't vote for remain either. People who lose a referendum tend to include the non-voters on their side and then claim to have a majority.

What I've been browsing through the various news-sites regarding this British referendum one thing strikes me above anything else; The globalists can't handle a defeat in a dignified manner but resort to childish tantrums. Maybe it is because those people have very little experience of defeats and setbacks that once when things aren't going their way they become clueless in their reactions. It all speaks in favour that the British people voted exactly right.

It's quite astonishing how the remain-camp managed to create an image that supporting being in the EU was somehow youthful and cool while supporting brexit was for the oldies, the rednecks and the uneducated. After all the EU has become a stale oligarchy run by a small number of inner circle bureaucrats and where the voice of smaller nations is not heard. As for the talk of another Scottish referendum; that is bullshit. Only goes to show how bad losers the SNP are still two years after the earlier referendum which produced an indisputable result.

What a marvellous result and shame on me for being so pessimistic beforehand. Cameron quits as well.

I'm disappointed if remain wins but certainly not surprised.

I truly hope Brexit wins and the corrupt EU-bosses get their asses kicked. Realistically though remain will win. People have been scaremongered to believe that the world will come to an end if Britain leaves the EU.

I think Bremain will win the referendum. People even though being discontent are too afraid to take a leap into the unknown. A similar what happened two years ago in the Scottish independence-referendum.

Joseph was a cuckold?

Some people say that the murder may swing the referendum for the remain-side. How fickle can people be if that is the case? Even in Sweden the murder of the foreign minister in the middle of a heated euro-referendum campaign didn't change the outcome of the vote when the Swedes overwhelmingly rejected the single currency.

Doesn't anyone notice any double standards regarding this news-story as compared to the reporting of the Orlando-massacre?

They seem to be holding on to the lone wolf-theory even though there is a lot to suggest that was not the case.

I'd also rather have Slovakia and Germany instead of those compilation-teams.

Tighter gun-laws wouldn't have helped in this case because he had access to guns through his job anyway.

The losing candidate may have to go into exile or prison depending on which one of them loses.