Stunned Cameron intends to resign
British, German markets plunge
(FOX)- European politics and world financial markets were thrown into disarray Friday, after Britain voted to leave the European Union in a move hailed by nationalists as the country’s own version of Independence Day.
The so-called “Brexit” from the 28-nation bloc, designed half a century ago to promote trade on the continent and prevent World War III, capped a bitter campaign and signaled the pending end of Prime Minister David Cameron’s tenure at No. 10 Downing Street.
“The dawn is breaking on an independent United Kingdom,” said Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party. “Let June 23 go down in our history as our independence day!”
Supporters of the “leave” side painted the vote as a referendum on the nation’s sovereignty, which they say has been ceded to unelected EU bureaucrats based in Brussels.
“It’s a vindication of 1,000 years of British democracy,” commuter Jonathan Campbell James declared at the train station in Richmond, southwest London. “From Magna Carta all the way through to now we’ve had a slow evolution of democracy, and this vote has vindicated the maturity and depth of the democracy in our country.”