UK to leave EU

[Thumpalumpacus]

Gosh, even I've heard of UKIP, and I'm just an ignorant American!

Nigel Farage is a racist opportunist, with any luck he will now disappear into the ether, I strongly doubt it though. 


I wanted out of Europe and I'm not a racist bigot, doesn't seem like anybody here is even willing to try to understand that though.

Amazing to watch people's perception of the whole vote here, anybody who dared want out of Europe is being painted as some kind of racist, bigotted, uneducated moron.

Pretty sure I didn't call you a racist, bud. But I can see from the coverage that there were subtle code-word appeals to xenophobia and bigotry in the Leave campaign, words which were supped up by many. You probably have your own non-soundbite reasons; you've always struck me as a thoughtful guy. But the fact is, many others seem, from this American remove, to have lapped sour milk and enjoyed it.

The divide over here now is almost as poisonous as the republican/democrat split in the US>

If it's that bad, you have my sympathies, and I'm not being snarky. Politically, we here in America cannot really talk across the gulf, and you can see what it's doing to us.