please empty your brain below

Don't make the mistake of thinking the Tories are out of trouble, many of the remain areas were actually in the Tory voting south East (Hampshire/Sussex) and along the M4 corridor (Berkshire/Cotsworlds).

So good luck getting re-elected in these areas, assuming the next election is this year, Labour may get their act together - or find another foot to shoot themselves in.
I think if Labour sort themselves out and kick out Comrade Corbyn and elect a moderate/sane leader they'll have a good chance of picking up some seats in areas which currently have a Tory MP but voted for remain.
Essential reading:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/27/liverpool-london-brexit-leave-eu-referendum
Jeremy Corbyn is very unpopular in the newspapers, in the parliamentary party, and with non-members.

But he was elected with an overwhelming majority of party members, and they haven't gone away. So if he is pushed out of the window, there are going to be a lot of disgruntled ex-members.

If he were convinced that it would be in the interests of the party, or of the country, he would maybe resign. But I don't think it would be, and nor does he.
The official Socialist Party position was Leave. It sees the EU as a bosses union, a dictatorship imposing austerity on workers whilst the privileged were isolated by their wealth. They want to see the collapse of the EU and a revolution by the disaffected of all nations. As the 1% were totally behind Remain, it must be in their interests. They fought a campaign which tried to promote an anti-racism approach.
And we've seen some very nasty people coming out of the woodwork this weekend. As a mongrel of Polish, Scottish and a mix of other races, I'm frightened and ashamed. I fuelled the fires by arguing what I saw as wrong with the EU, and I'm burnt in the process. I fear I'll never learn.
I am a Conservative, but not a member of the party. Philip Collins wrote a piece last summer listing the aims and ideals of (Blairite) Labour with which I agreed. I felt therefore qualified to be a Labour 'supporter', so I paid my £3 and voted for Corbyn. Why? Of the 4 candidates, only Liz Kendall appealed and she was not going to win then, but later? Apparently, judging by the flood of emails I have received over the past year, I, and I am told many others like me, have not been rumbled. I shall vote for Corbyn again. In fact judging by the appallingly arrogant behaviour shown by Cameron at PMQs, I might even vote for the Labour candidate, at the next general Election, whenever that might be.
France survived their revolutions and all the turmoil they created. We'll survive, if not thrive, when we've all acclimatized to our new situation. Really! What is all the panic about but greedy people with noses in the trough discovering it's gone or going?
Yes, the country of France survived. As did some other countries in which violent revolutions took place. But people died. This is not a good path to follow.
In a previous referendum, Scotland voted to remain part of the UK... that's Democracy.

In last week's referendum, the UK voted to leave the EU... that's Democracy.

Scarily, losers such as Nicola Sturgeon and David Lammy are now threatening to overturn the people's decision to leave, just because they don't like it... that's Dictatorship.

So there you have it, DG's vertical scale should be labelled from Democracy to Dictatorship.
I wonder what the split was as a % of how much income tax is paid between leave and remain?
In addition to any other problems with Gerry's post above, I could point out that democracy and dictatorship are not opposites. Many dictators in recent times have started out as democratically elected leaders.

One of the many problems with referenda on contentious issues, particularly those which finish with a narrow majority, is that an enormous number of people are dissatisfied with the outcome. Whichever way recent referenda in the UK had gone, there were sure to be people on the losing side who would be looking for ways to rectify what they would have seen as the people's mistake.
The leave block on your diagram seems to consist of two pretty distinct groups: older, traditionally Conservative voter who distrust the EU and the less well off who feel alienated from traditional politicians.

Apart from a desire to vote Leave I can't see these groups having much in common. I know all political parties cover a broad church but I can't see the anti EU wing of the Conservatives coming together with UKIP to form any longer term grouping.
I agree with Gerry above. Or perhaps:

From self-determination to overseas rule
From independence to bureaucratic imperialism
From co-operation to compulsion
From rational to emotional.

Or - bearing in mind there was no referendum before we joined the wretched organisation in the first place (I wonder why):

From popular opinion to we-know-best elitism.

Oh, my mistake. There was actually a nationwide referendum before we joined and the vote was in favour of our joining so it went ahead. Only trouble was the referendum was in France.
Yawn.

Can we get back to normal? This blog is getting too political now.

It doesn't really matter what party is in charge or if we're in the EU or not.

Big Business Central Bankers and The Markets control our lives, not politicians.

Wake up.
There have been very few referenda in UK history. Given the trouble that the last two seem to have caused, that's one aspect of the 1950s and earlier that it might be worth going back to. How about a referendum in which the question is "Should referenda be banned?"
How about a ban on overly pretentious plurals ;-)

Referendums is just fine.
Actually, it's also technically correct. I learnt this when I tried to pick a fight with the BBC as a pretentious thirteen year old. Something to do with it being a gerund. But I got invited to Broadcasting House and met Brian Perkins. I particularly remember visiting the pronunciation unit. Bet that wouldn't happen now.
It's technically correct but unnecessarily pretentious.

Referendums is preferred. That's what Wikipedia says so it must be right.
No, referendums is technically correct, hence my 'also' following on from your earlier post.
@ eric, @ Sarah: Some people have different agendums and desideratums ! Others sit on their ba doing their sa.

Swiftly getting back on topic, I'd suggest that the Left / Right axis of From state control to state freedom would be better expressed as From state control to individual freedom or From state control to personal freedom.

'State freedom' seems a contradiction in terms.

dg writes: Agreed, and I think that's what I'd meant to write in the first place. Fixed now, thanks.
Voters swing about all over the place, they just need a strong leader to offer hope and something new and loads will switch across. Look at Blair in the 90s, Thatcher in the 80s, Atlee in the 40s. It could happen for Labour, esp. if they elect a new leader who could properly hold Johnson to account (assuming he's PM which looks likely) and expose him for the blusterer he is. Corbyn is a man of sound principles, but let's face it, he aint gonna get elected.

The referendum to me was ironic - we're meant to becoming more localised with politics and power going out to areas like Manchester, and London, Scotland and Wales getting more powers over the last 10 years, and then we ask the whole country one very blunt question. By opening it up so wide it was a very clumsy way of handling the issue, and has unleashed a wave of chaos and destruction. We seem to have lost confidence in everything overnight - talk about being architects of our own downfall.
The Yeats poem is so very apt for today's world:

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

...
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity
Other relevant parts of Yeats 'The Second Coming'?

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

...

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

He does slouch rather, doesn't he, BoJo that is?




And now it's 'Bye bye England'
(Thanks Iceland)
Coming out of Europe twice in the same week.
That takes some doing!
Great picture. Given how viral it has gone I think this also shows how non viral flicker is is as only just over 1000 views!
And yet better, Boris Johnson has decided not to run for PM (now).
#Patrickov

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