Some people have said about controling their own laws. Honestly, I'm really confused about this whole mess, both sides seemed really confusing in the end.

The Nets lit up over the news, the irony here is this couldn't have happened without David Cameron allowing a referendum. Nobody expected this to pass, so he gambled that he would win to shut up the pro-Brexiter's who have been throwing around a lot of empty rhetoric and hate mongering. Except he lost, and now they've set an example for other disgruntled EU member's who may be considering their own referendum's to leave the EU. Now Britians economy is tanking because of the stock market fallout, and the rest of the EU could collapse. Of course Trump's happy about everything and see's it as a validation of his campaign, so take that as you will.

Hi,
I agree with brexitors, unfortunatellyu, because EU made some verry strange decisions in the near past, for example 500K € for each unassigned migrant from arabic countries.
Personally, I don't want muslims in the EU, because Europe was christianic and if they'll start colonising it that will change, so back to the topic: Brtitain wouldn't for example pay this money, so for them, this decision is good.

Well speaking as someone who actually did vote to leave, but believes the campaign on both sides has got waaay out of hand I can definitely come at this from a different angle.

First, it is not the case that the question is just about refugees and migrants, for all that a lot of right wing idiots believe it to be, though I will note that as someone trying! to marry an American and sort her legitimate entrance into the country I do find the current immigration situation more than a little silly, given that despite the fact my lady comes from a country britain has had exceptional relations with in the past ie, the united states, speaks English and has no dodgy leanings she is subject to a massive inquisition and ridiculously high immigration charges, where as were she coming from any obscure corner of europe for whatever reason there wouldn't be a problem, and yet there are! some fairly dodgy people coming into the country for far less good reasons without any scrutiny at all, (which I hasen to add certainly doesn't mean everybody from Europe is dodgy, just that the attention given seems extremely unequal).

The issue for me has always been one of administration.  A lot of random laws have been passed by the european parliament that just plane werent' in the interests of britain or didn't take into account situational changes over here.
For example health and safety regulation such as energy saving lightbulbs being manditory (despite the fact they actually make it so dim it's hard to see for someone who's visually impared), and a lot of trading standards stuff which make it far more economically difficult for smaller businesses in Britain to function.

For example, a friend of mine was the son of a pig farmer, and had a major beef (ha ha), with the fact that due to Eu trade regulations and the fact that the government was committed to lowering import duties, pork farmers in britain had no way of selling the meat they produced as compared to people in Spain who used extremely inhumane and cruel farming measures that would be illegal in this country.

That's not to speak of other issues, such as the problem of steel works being shut down, and far too many nationalized British services being sold of to european investers (it's fairly nuts that the national health service is currently largely administrated from Spain), rather than keeping things in the economy in Britain.

All that being said, I do think both sides of the debate have got far too nutty and over emotional and inclined to vote with the guts rather than the brain, and indeed the media currently, and trump, and everyone else proclaiming doom and gloom and the end of all things, after all Britain never did! have the euro anyway, and nobody ever said that Britain would stop trading! in europe, only that administration wise Britain was no longer part of the european union as a legislative entity, (nobody ever objected to when it was the e e c).

As to why trump and everyone else has got on the bandwagon, I suspect that is just an attempt to spin current events to whatever political advantage is needed, after all there is no logical reason why Britain's relationship with Europe will actually affect the relationship with the Usa, indeed if anything I suspect Britain and the Us will become politically closer, given common language and frequently common interests.

I imagine for all practical purposes the split from europe won't have that much affect after the initial "oh doom!" has faded out, just more self administration for Britain, and hopefully a bit more of a move back in the direction of nationalisation and against all this placate the big business crap which dominates politics at the moment, though i am a little concerned about whether it will be a platform for the nationalistic right wing nutjobs to gain more power in the country, which is something I'm definitely! against, since I don't imagine having Ukip, ie, the uk independence party in power would be a particularly good thing for anyone.

I know it may surprise people that me, probably the least patriotic person in the world voted in favour of leaving europe (my dad has the ability to vote for me by post hence why I voted against even though I'm currently in pencilvania), but for me it was mainly a question of administrative power and local interest, particularly given my views on multinational capitalism.
As I said, I doubt severely whether things will be as doom laden as much of the media predicts, after all similar predictions were made back during the recession in 2008, but we'll see.

Hello.

I was one of the stupid ones who voted to leave without actually knowing what I was doing.
I voted leave because my perrents did. Not because I knew what I was talking about. If I had it my way, people would all be treated equaly, it's what I do and I believe it is how it should be. My grandad on the other hand is very happy we're leaving because of imigrents being "forced" out of the country and other things like that.

Do I agree that that should happen? No way. Do I regret voting without actualy knowing what I was voting for,? Yes. This is why, hwen another voting avent comes around, I will research as much as I can.

The problem with this kind     of research is that we don't know what is fact and what is fiction. My grandad says all pms are trained lyers. I don't know how true that is but I do know that it's hard to find the "truth" within all the articles and videos.

I voted to remain, as did very nearly half of the UK. For me, the frustrating thing about the referendum is actually the people who now say that it isn't fair and that they only voted to leave as a reaction to dissatisfaction with British politics at the moment. I accept that the media is good at finding most extreme examples, but I even heard one story about a woman who voted to leave because she was unhappy with how her local (yes, local) government officials handled the closing of a public toilet. It seems that the leave campaign was primarily motivated by fear, prejudice and a lack of understanding, while the remain campaign seemed to focus more on the actual statistics and pros and cons of what leaving the EU means for people.

It's also worth remembering that EU legislation hasn't been all bad for British people. Working time and fair wage policies have improved working conditions in some ways. Also, I think that independence will lower Britain's political influence in the world. This desire for defended borders, and sense of national superiority, will just isolate us. Still, these are just my opinions.

I believe there should be some nationalistic reasons which lead people to vote to leave the EU, but the point of immigrants sounds ridiculous at some extent. If all immigrants will be forced to get away from Britain, then it will collapse very soon after. I agree that Britain may not own the potential of giving home to newer groups of immigrants, but this does not mean to departure those who are actually working and living in England. Do you imagine what this would cause to smaller countries where these immigrantse come from?
There is a small city in Albania, where more than 40% of its population has migrated to Britain. In fact, a friend of mine who lives in London told me a sarcastic saying of him. He said that if I come across an Albanian, I don't need to ask him where does he live in Albania, because I already know that he and all the others are from there.
Anyway, it may not be true, or it is just my belief that the brexit will not have an enormous consequence to the life of Britain. Books for English learning will be sold again around the world, the English influence will not disappear to let French be spoken as a second Language in the EU as some medias predict, embacies will function normally, student experiences will be still shared among british students and those from other nations, it's just going to be a greater independence from the british side. After all, Britain will not become a communist nation to stop all the external activities with the outer world as some people predict.

From what I've read it sounds like there's a lot of xenophobic sentiment in the UK. But I know the media does tend to exaggerate, so it might not be very accurate. For example, this article (I'll paste the article underneath the URL):
http://www.news24.com/World/News/intole … n-20160628
Intolerant acts surge as Brexit referendum result sinks in
London - An Eastern European family in Rugby finds dog excrement shoved through its mailbox. A Londoner nearly gets into a fight over drunken slurs shouted on a crowded subway car. A Polish teenager in Gloucestershire is taunted with threats of deportation at her high school.
In the wake of last Thursday's vote to leave the European Union, Britain has seen a surge in xenophobia expressed in taunts, threats and worse. For many, foreign- and native-born, the UK has suddenly become much scarier place.
"Before Friday we lived in a tolerant society," said Oana Gorcea, a 32-year-old Romanian who has lived in Britain since she was a teenager. "I've been here 13 years, but I've never felt like I had to hide where I came from. But from Friday, things completely changed."
Gorcea, who works for a multinational company in Rugby, about 135km northwest of London, said her street was being patrolled by "English commandos who walk around and try to intimidate non-white non-English people". The talk of the neighbourhood was the dog faeces shoved through a local immigrant family's mailbox.
57% rise in hate crime complaints
Gorcea's story and others like it have been echoing across social media for days. Eastern Europeans, Muslims — even Americans and Germans — have reported acts of intimidation and harassment. Victims describe an emboldened angry fringe emerging to crow over Thursday's vote; a T-shirt sported by a man at an Armed Forces Day parade in the working class London borough of Havering over the weekend seemed to sum up the new attitude: "YES! WE WON! NOW SEND THEM BACK."
British reporters across the country have seen the resurgence of racism up close and personal. Adam Boulton, a presenter for Britain's Sky News, posted a message to Twitter saying he and his family had witnessed three separate incidents of when-are-you-going-home?-style abuse aimed at Europeans over the weekend. Channel Four's Ciaran Jenkins said that within a five-minute span in the northern England town of Barnsley, three people had shouted "Send them home!" BBC reporter Sima Kotecha said that she was in "utter shock" after having returned home to the southern England town of Basingstoke and been abused with a racial slur she hadn't heard "since the 80s."
Police are investigating vandalism at a Polish cultural centre in west London and incidents in Cambridgeshire in which cards were given to Polish residents calling them "vermin" and ordering them to leave the country. The National Police Chiefs' Council said there had been a 57% rise in hate crime complaints in the past four days compared to the same period last month.
Britain's sizeable Muslim community has also found itself caught up in the anti-immigrant backlash. Miqdaad Versi, assistant secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain, said that "hundreds of hate crimes" had been reported across the country.
"The type of language that has been used, like 'go back to your own country,' 'we voted this way, now you have to get out,' that type of language indicates there is some sort of link" to the referendum, he said.
'Open season for racism and xenophobia'
Those who championed the campaign to pull Britain from the EU have condemned the attacks.
"I've never, ever, ever encouraged or condoned behaviour like that, and I never, ever would," said United Kingdom Independence Party leader Nigel Farage, before adding that "the real prejudice is the prejudice that's been there for a decade or more against anybody that dares stand up against the establishment, anybody that dares to say that we shouldn't be part of the EU".
Other politicians didn't buy it.
"The leaders of the Brexit campaign have engendered an atmosphere where some people believe it is open season now for racism and xenophobia," said lawmaker Harriet Harman, a former leader of the opposition Labour Party.
For the victims, the link between the referendum and the abuse is clear. Immigration was a key issue in the campaign, with Farage posing in front of a massive, truck-drawn poster carrying a photograph of hundreds of swarthy migrants under the words "Breaking Point." Many "leave" voters cited the influx of foreigners as a top concern.
"Just because of one referendum ... it's coming out like woodworms," said Julie Sauter Daoud, a French-German national who has lived in Britain most of her life. On Sunday she got a firsthand encounter with xenophobia when two men overtook her car shouting, "Go home, you (expletive) German."
She said the attack, which happened while she was driving down a residential street in the northern English city of Sheffield, left her so shaken she was even scared to speak French to her youngest child at the supermarket.
"It's terribly sickening," she said in a telephone interview. "The first time ever in my life. Ever." She paused for a second. "Probably not the last time now."
'Worrying Signs' Facebook group
The 44-year-old's story is one of hundreds filling a Facebook group called "Worrying Signs", which is gathering evidence of the recent surge in intolerance. By late Monday the site was jammed with stories and photographs of sinister graffiti and even broken windows. Polish-British national Natalia Nicholls wrote on the site that her 14-year-old sister was taunted by boys at her high school in the Cotswolds region of England who boasted that "now we can get rid of the Polish and the blacks." Corinne Abrahams, 24, said she was returning from a music festival when she nearly got into a fight with an inebriated man yelling anti-foreigner epithets on the London subway. An American woman said she was recently accosted by people calling her a "Yankee (expletive)" in a parking lot.
The wave of rage has unsettled the country's political class, already in disarray following the Brexit vote. Prime Minister David Cameron, in his first appearance before lawmakers since the vote, reassured Europeans and other ethnic minorities living in Britain that they would be protected.
"Let's remember these people have come here and made a wonderful contribution to our country," he said. "We will not stand for hate crime or these kinds of attacks. They must be stamped out."

Okay, I just spoke to a Russian friend of mine in London. She said she's not experienced any changein attitude since the referendum. There have apparently occasionally been racist morons in the past, but not any kind of upswing in same recently.