Victory for the righteous? I was with you through "victory for the right" then got lost, hah.
And no, this won't be reversed. We're about to go into some of most uncertain and ill prepared for political times we've had in decades, and may be about to find out just how little of a plan anyone put in place for leaving. I mean, fingers crossed that all the Leave predictions come true now and the country isn't as poor and generally portugaled as I fear, but I still think they've worked themselves into a politically impossible situation.
We also now have the "what sort of deal" arguments - do we go EU lite like Norway or more heavily break away and more radically had painfully rebalance the economy to compensate. There are whole new areas of policy that we don't even have civil servants trained in covering any more and where previous consensus may be shattered. I think now Cameron is gone, a fresh GE may be likely to settle the question of who does the negotiations (probably the Tories still, but their majority is fragile).
Basically as Clockwork said this is a really really big deal, and it settles actually not very much given how unclear many people on either side were another what their respective options meant. Impossible to say how things will develop now, beyond a lot of confusion (which the markets won't like admittedly).
Anyway... on a personal level, I and a lot of people I work with are likely to get really heavily negatively impacted by this, so I really hope it does bring the benefits to those who voted for Leave that they wanted to make that worth it. As I've said elsewhere, and as is painfully obvious from Farage's victory speech, a lot of the Leave camp pushed this into being a referendum on "what counts as British"; I feel alienated and angry at the result, whether Leave voters saw it this way I can't say but in practice it is an attack on my identity and on people I love that was in some significant part won by dog-whistle racism and outright lies. Whether you want to call that overreaction or not, it's the harsh truth that's been staring out from every Leave leaflet I've seen in this campaign; they won fair and square by making these islands more divided, and that's the future we all now have to live with.
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