[Magdalen] Brexit Leave-ers win.

Jim Handsfield jhandsfield at att.net
Fri Jun 24 16:35:47 UTC 2016


I'm a little more concerned that it may, ultimately, signal the break up of the U.K.  There are already comments coming out of Scotland and North Ireland about independence from the U.K.  

Jim Handsfield
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> On Jun 24, 2016, at 11:18 AM, Ferdinand von Prondzynski <F.von-Prondzynski at rgu.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> Marion Thompson wrote, referring to the Pound Sterling:
> 
>> It'll go back up.
> 
> Actually no it won’t, certainly not in the short term. Eventually it may. But in the meantime the uncertainties created by this vote will cause havoc. In the universities there is already panic, particularly amongst EU students, and international students appear to be changing their minds about coming to Britain, perhaps sensing that the campaign unleashed rather a lot of xenophobia.
> 
> This is a scary moment in the UK’s history.
> 
> Ferdinand
> (running a university in Scotland)
> 
> 



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