Or how Google searches for stuff like "what happens if we/the UK leaves the EU?" have shot up by 200% or something AFTER the vote.
At first I really cracked up about that one but then I though about how embarassing it feels that people are really
this stupid and didn't look into possible consequences beforehand.
I'm quite amazed at how one of the first news I find about this is
"Game of Thrones fans fear that the producers won't be able to pay for the production anymore (because it would be partly financed by EU subsidies)".
I'm so glad this is our biggest problem in the world.
Pfft, yea, first world problems apparently.
There's also something I read about mostly people older than 50 voting for "Leave" in UK while many people younger than 30 voted for "Remain" but the latter group having a significantly lower participation rate in actual voting.
It also remains to see how the Scots will react now as I could imagine many of them by now regretting that they voted against independence in their referendum a few years before.
Considering the implications of the whole EU imploding now I can see the EU reacting pretty harshly and denying GB anything an concessions they reasonably can deny them without much harm for other member states.
*Irony on*
Imagine how much money
Germany would save if it didn't have to pay for all the EU-shit anymore! Let's hold a referendum about an Gerexit soon here as well! Considering how stupid and uncaring for the own populace's wishes and worries "Mutti" Merkel is though I guess we would need to get rid of her first and install someone who isn't a bootlicker of lobbyists and the financial markets in order to actually get such a referendum going here as well. If the AfD is too radical we might still have Seehofer though.
*Irony off*
In a more serious manner though it is no wonder that the EU doesn't work not only because of the definitive lack of democratic legitimitation, but also because a majority (17 of 27) member states take more money and other resources
out of the EU than they contribute (and then they refuse to participate when topics like distributing refugees evenly or other points of solidarity come up).
Even worse is that often much of that money is not even used to help the actual regular people in these countries, with Greece being one of the most harsh and obvious examples of that.
This is why I was and am still opposed to further expansion of the EU with further member states that only belong into the group that take more funds out of the joint budget than they put in. It simply cannot be reasonably funded anymore if new "recruits" are only takers instead of givers all the time.
Even comparativey "tiny" Finnland did pay more than 800 million more into the EU in 2014 alone than it got out of it, same goes for Denmark (more than 830 million), Austria (1240 million), Belgium (1,48 Milliards (Billion for US)) and Sweden with whopping 2,31 Milliards. The Swedes also have the highest per capita costs concerning money they give to the EU (and thus the member states who take out more than they give) as the overall populace is much smaller than in some of the nations who pay more.
Now the top five are Italy with 4,47 Milliards (and the Italians have themselves massive economic
and refugee/illegal immigrant problems while NOT getting a discount like UK got up to now),
then on 4th the also comparatively "tiny" Netherlands with 4,71 Milliards, the 3rd being
despite the discount still the UK so far with 5,6 milliards paid more than they get out of it.
On 2nd and 1st place are of course the so far driving forces of european unity, France with 7,16 milliards and Germany with a
whopping 15,5 milliards every year paid more than it gets out of it.
With UK out of the picture the 5,6 milliards shouldered by them will of course have to come from elsewhere so the remaining payers will again have to pay more, not something the populaces in those countries will look forward to.
It could go otherwise if the loonies and armchair-farters in Brussels and Strasbourg finally get their shit together to work with a tighter budget or maybe get the balls to cut the overblown salaries of EU-officials and subsidies for countries who constantly mismanage them and refuse when it comes to solidarity. Not wasting money to save banks and other financial market idiots would also be an option of course, but how big are the chances that this actually happens?
Thus, the resentment against a "club" that continues to cost more and more will only increase and if any of these who pay more than they get apart from UK should also decide to leave, things will get
very complicated and I dare to claim that if either France or Germany quit the EU is
dead overnight.