Britain's vote to leave EU passes with ~51.8%

the people that got disarmed 20 years ago?
idunno, could work out safely.

By doing that, they would be showing all of their citizens and the entire world that they are just a dictatorship posing as a democracy. Just because you can easily quell a populace that have no weapons to fight back with doesn't mean it's a good idea, the ramifications for imposing martial law to get what you want against the will of your people would be much worse than any that come out of leaving the EU.

Today the stock market did about as badly as expected, tech and financials are both way down, globably the average for banks is down around 10% and banks in Britain are all down 20-25%. From what I understand of this vote, by the way, this isn't actually the end of them leaving the EU even if it passes legislation. The EU members themselves also have to vote (66%?) to ALLOW them to leave unless Britian is special for some reason, which I don't think is the case. I can see widespread riots happening if they don't allow it, though; it would be worse in the long term if they block it, because there would never be any attempt at rational communication from either side from then on, and it would likely tear the entire EU apart from the inside.