Show respect

Rolls Royce shares are up, so it's not all gloom. Does anyone know when Osbourne is going to announce his emergency budget?

DH has just asked me that!! Osbourne has certainly kept a low profile today.!

I voted leave, but agree that Farage is a buffoon. It was not about personalities.

In my view the referendum is undemocratic, irrespective of which view prevailed. It is a blunt instrument and needs refining. There should be a minimum turnout rule and a minimum gap rule - the fact that the vote was so very close means that we have no clear view from the British people. It is crazy that a huge decision like this should huge in just a few percentage points.

It is also a cop-out to ask people to vote on something so complex that few can really understand the concepts. It is just plain wrong.

Rolls Royce shares are up? Will that put food on the tables of the land?

niggly, I have not said anywhere that the referendum was undemocratic. I have not thought it either. So I'm a bit puzzled as to where you've got that idea from.

On the immigration issue, which clearly influenced many people, the governments of several countries in the EU failed to take seriously the concerns that people had/have and labelled those with worries as racists, which pushed them into a corner. There is a difference between racists and decent people who are frightened/concerned. Many people misguidedly imagined that Leave would solve the immigration issue. Again a case of being asked to vote on something that they have insufficient knowledge to decide.

Oh... I think I may have figured it out. Full-stop missing. As you were.

Well it will help the posh boys with their Rolls Royces. They're the only ones who will be better off because they always are.

I think that anyone who's waiting for billions to be poured into the NHS or Social Housing is in for a long wait.

Sorry thatbags, I was asking luckygirl, who has replied. I should have made that clearer!

I agree, lucky. People whose wages have fallen, people on zero hours contracts, people with no job security have genuine worries. They are not racists for possibly thinking that high immigration will cause them even further problems. It's a reasonable supposition to make, even if it's wrong.

The lack of understanding of the "little people" is what has shocked me most. it's bad enough in money magnates and rich politicians, but it's truly shocking when it comes from people who claim to care about the poor.

Then it's lack of education. Because that's another reason the outers voted that way.

I'm not sure I care greatly about the "poor" at the moment.

Oh yes. I'm thoroughly uneducated. Total racist thicko, me.

Sod the "little people".

I doubt that. But a lot of your co-voters were.

I suppose Tony Benn and other high profile opponents of the EU (like Cameron and corbyn until recently ) are uneducated too.

Wish people wouldn't talk such bollocks.

I can't see into the minds of the Brexit politicians. Who knows how they think? I don't believe Boris is racist. Not sure about thick though.

thatbags, I agree with you. Not one of the campaigners made any attempt to engage with or reassure the ordinary man/woman on the street whose lives and families are just as important to them as those of the fat cats and 'educated' lot are.

Too busy scaremongering and threatening the worst.

It!/ the masses I am referring to. The ones who dragged themselves to the polling stations probably for the first time in their lives. Because they can't usually be arsed to vote.

Isn't it funny how overnight 51% of the population have suddenly become bigots, thick, and every other insult the Remain voters can hurl at them. Many of the people I know didn't vote because they were bigots, they are well educated and did a lot of research themselves to make up their mind. Many don't like the cumbersome bureaucracy, the lack of proper representation on things that affect their lives and an organisation who is not prepared to listen to people's fears. They recognise they could do nothing from within and felt forced to vote leave. Some of my best friends are European, I personally don't feel any less European that I did yesterday and I find it really sad people cannot agree to respect others right to vote as they see fit. It is breathtaking arrogance to think you know better than someone else without walking in their shoes. Whatever political differences I may have with my friends, family and fellow Europeans, I respect them without feeling I have to belittle them for their views. Who knows what tomorrow brings? None of us has a crystal ball and it may turn out to be the best decision we ever made. Now perhaps people will see that campaigning for what you want, using your vote, etc can work to get a majority view and we can change our Political System to ensure we actually get that.

How do you know, jings? Another disdainful assumption. This disdain for ordinary people is a big part of the problem that's caused the desire for an EU referendum in the first place.

No ican - only 51% of those who voted.

It's pretty obvious. Even you must know how much anti-migrant feeling, not to say racial hatred, there is in many parts of the country. Why else would there have been such a high turn-out?

I intensely dislike the phrase 'ordinary people'! We're all ordinary people.