Against all the predictions of the day before and against the gamble of the financial markets, won Brexit. Britain's impressive divorce from Europe has been settled. At the end of the counting, the "Leave" front prevailed with 51,9% of the votes, against the 48,1% in favor of the "Remain".
The pound it immediately collapsed to a 35-year low and the markets are in a panic: Asian stock markets are in deep red, while futures signal a storm. Emergency meeting of the Bank of England at dawn to decide immediately what to do. Even the ECB is ready to intervene.
Shortly after the official outcome of the vote, the premier David Cameron has announced his resignation. Speaking before Downing Street, in his first public outing after the result, the prime minister said he would respect "the will of the British people". And he added that there must be a new leader to lead negotiations with the EU. "I don't think there is a need to set a timetable but I do think we need to have a new prime minister in time for the Conservative Party conference in October."
The British people "voted to leave the European Union and their will must be respected", said the British premier, David Cameron, commenting the outcome of the referendum from Downing Street. The country, he added, "took part in the biggest democratic exercise", perhaps "the biggest in its history". There will be no immediate changes for citizens of the European Union living in Great Britain and for Britons living in other European Union countries, said Cameron who also announced his presence at next week's EU Council in Brussels.
London, the City, Cambridge, Oxford, Liverpool and Glasgow voted against Brexit, but that wasn't enough. A veritable avalanche of pro-Brexit votes has arrived from the North of Great Britain. The "No" to the EU has prevailed in deep England, from the countryside to the working-class strongholds of Nottingham, Coventry and Sheffield.
The political and economic consequences of Brexit promise to be dramatic. The risk of a domino effect and an impulse towards populism of all kinds is very strong, with the danger of Scotland leaving the United Kingdom and the risk of contagion also in Europe, where the Catalan separatists are certainly emboldened on the eve of the vote in the Spanish general election on Sunday .
Between London and Europe, nothing will ever be the same again. Great Britain will no longer be able to participate in the single market and trade between the UK and the EU will be altered.
The only one who celebrates is the nationalist leader Farage, with which Beppe Grillo's M5S has allied itself in the European Parliament. who immediately commented: “It is our Independence Day”, which Great Britain and Europe will pay dearly for. Farage also called for the immediate resignation of Prime Minister Cameron. And he got them.
