Woke up at 4am, checked the tablet, realised it was so close that I wasn't going back to sleep. Stayed in front of the TV until after nine. Facebook reminded me of after the General Election - a lot of talk about we'd got it wrong, disaster, run a second referendum, petition, some talk on the news about how it wasn't binding. Cameron resigned, Osborne disappeared, polls discovered that the old voted out and the young voted in, which was apparently taken to mean that the old had deliberately voted against the young's interests, the Labour leadership disintegrated, everybody started talking about Boris and Theresa and whether or not they'd have a mandate without a General Election. Gordon Brown got a mention.
Osborne reappeared early this morning with a statement intended to calm the markets (no emergency budget required just yet), and I think I saw earlier that the run-it-again petition is a fraud after all. Some comment online about how the 'liberal' side didn't seem prepared to accept the 'democratic' result when it went against them. Polls suggested that educated people had voted to remain. A young woman stood up on Question Time and asked how many times we'd be prepared to re-run the referendum to get the right answer.
We have the undivided attention of the EU leadership, and John Kerry has diverted a trip to Rome to come here - that queue of Obama's was a short one. The sun came up this morning. 'Change' was until recently one of those political words - we're always being promised change, in ways that always make it sound positive. Now the electorate has delivered change, and along with it, some hard choices.
Osborne reappeared early this morning with a statement intended to calm the markets (no emergency budget required just yet), and I think I saw earlier that the run-it-again petition is a fraud after all. Some comment online about how the 'liberal' side didn't seem prepared to accept the 'democratic' result when it went against them. Polls suggested that educated people had voted to remain. A young woman stood up on Question Time and asked how many times we'd be prepared to re-run the referendum to get the right answer.
We have the undivided attention of the EU leadership, and John Kerry has diverted a trip to Rome to come here - that queue of Obama's was a short one. The sun came up this morning. 'Change' was until recently one of those political words - we're always being promised change, in ways that always make it sound positive. Now the electorate has delivered change, and along with it, some hard choices.