So I saw this article about scientists looking to leave the UK due to the wider ramifications of the potential withdrawal of the UK from the EU.

That tickled my memory a bit, and then I recalled:

"Big news back in the Old Country," Devlin replied
offhandedly. "Most of the country's top physicists suddenly leavin'
will have a tendency to make the papers. More Vulcans in Britain than
anyplace else on Earth, until last week, you know."

..from Symphony 1, 4th movement

The parallel isn't exact, but the underlying themes seem to...resonate.

Unfortunately, some history tends to repeat itself.

For those actually IN the UK right now...our thoughts are with you. Please take care.

>Unfortunately, some history tends to repeat itself.
>
>For those actually IN the UK right now...our thoughts are with you.
>Please take care.

Agreed. Unless you voted Leave. Then you can take the asshole train to the end.

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In at least something of a connection?

https://twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/status/746356581697216512

I just...yeah.

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John Oliver is on point, as always.

"Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party and three-time cover model for Punchable Face magazine."

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"The United Kingdom, a place whose very NAME, after this weeks events, is beginning to sound a bit sarcastic."

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My favorite response to this so far has been from the artist JollyJack

Having had the weekend to calm down, I hope some of the louder doomsayers and triumphalists have finally got this out of their systems.

Personally I felt it was a tough call so I've nothing against people who voted in the way I didn't. The vote could have gone either way, but it's done. Hopefully it's beginning to sink in that nothing is actually going to happen immediately.

Leaving the EU has never been tried before but there is a process. It's a two year timeframe and that's not even reached the official start date.

Before we can even begin that, the government needs to get itself together. Given the Conservatives and Labour are both apparently busy in the good old-fashioned affair of knifing each themselves in public, this could take a while. (Nothing new there).

Farage appears to have missed the point that his 'victory' renders him no less laughable and significantly less relevant since the only part of his political platform remaining is open bigotry.

Boris Johnson is rapidly retreating to the middle ground and probably watching his back in case someone knifes him.

At this point it seems fairly unlikely that any part of the UK that breaks away would then be allowed into the EU. I could be wrong there.

There's probably time for a general election before the winter, although apparently the coalition government made that unnecessarily hard during their time in office. At this point I think we could do with one.

Who knows...Scotland seems to be very keen on remaining, and if it leaves the UK before the UK leaves the EU...it might be able to argue that it never left.
Same with Northern Ireland which seems to lean predominantly towards being pro-EU.

At the same time, there is talk of a re-do, what with the less than 75% voter turnout and less than 4 percent between the sides. And, honestly, with the massive economical upheaval that occured, if there IS a re-do, the new result might be VERY different.

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>At the same time, there is talk of a re-do, what with the less than
>75% voter turnout and less than 4 percent between the sides.
Over 70% turnout is still spectacularly high for the UK. There's no guarantee that a second vote would get as many people out.

>Boris Johnson is rapidly retreating to the middle ground and probably
>watching his back in case someone knifes him.

He didn't watch it closely enough, it seems, as Gove QUITE firmly planted one in there. "Not going to run" my flabby ass. All of a sudden it's "felt it had to be me." Rather full of yourself, aren't you?

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