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Great Britain rides stunning decision to leave the EU: what you said about Brexit

Was this vote an unprecedented act of self-sabotage? And is this the end of a centuries-old union? Here’s what our readers are saying about the UK’s EU referendum.

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The Brexit 'flotilla'. Stefan Rousseau / PA Wire/Press Association Images. All rights reserved.
The Brexit 'flotilla'. Stefan Rousseau / PA Wire/Press Association Images. All rights reserved.

The Brexit 'flotilla'. Stefan Rousseau / PA Wire/Press Association Images. All rights reserved.The UK’s decision to leave the EU has ushered in an era of radical uncertainty – some of our best writers have been trying to make sense of what drove the vote to Leave, and to map out where we go from here. And we’ve been turning to you, our readers, for some of our most insightful commentary in the post-referendum haze.

Here’s a taster…

In the wake of England’s vote to leave the EU, the glue keeping Scotland in the UK is rapidly dissolving, wrote our UK editor Adam Ramsay:

“Centrist Scottish unionism was built on four pillars: the press, political parties, business and Britishness. Each of them seems to be crumbling. The chances of the Yes campaign winning a second independence referendum look higher than ever.”