I honestly never expected the Leave vote to win so I was devastated this morning when I found out and have had a feeling all day which I'm pretty sure could be accurately described as 'dread'. It's mostly the uncertainty and not having a clue what's about to happen to us which I'm very anxious about, especially considering we could now be left with Boris Johnson or Michael Gove as Prime Minister (two people I despise immensely). I don't like Cameron at all but if it's a choice between him and anybody from the Leave campaign then I'd take Cameron any time. I'm just hoping that the oil price stays low now to ward off a potential Scottish referendum in the near future. Leaving the EU is going to do nothing to limit immigration because we'll end up having to sign up to free movement to access the single market and we'll also have to pay for the privilege as Norway etc do already. Urgh, small-minded fucking bigots have put us in a situation where we've pissed off a trade behemoth on our doorstep and we (the younger, working generations) now need to compete with that while pensions will still be going up at least 2.5% every single year regardless of what happens to the economy, a massive housing shortage continues, mortgages and rents continue to rise, wages continue to stagnate and there's huge uncertainty in employment...
At work we do a lot of business in Europe so we have nearly 100 non-UK EU nationals in the office, a lot of them have been really worried today and it's horrible to see. The CEO had to send an email effectively saying "we have no idea what's going to happen but you're probably got another 2 years without any visa issues, we'll look at it again then".
Labour MPs have submitted a motion of no confidence in Corbyn.
This is one of only two positives I've managed to think of today, I've never liked Corbyn and couldn't picture myself voting for him in an election even though I've always been a Labour voter. The other positive being that bank shares are effectively having a 20% off sale today and I'm tempted to stock up a bit, must be horrendous for people working in finance today though. Share prices have held up surprisingly well so far considering, I was expecting a massacre.