Sibylle's Blog @mohn-images.com: They gambled high ... and lost.

A majority of the English and Welsh people of the UK have fallen for a huge gamble and lost mightily, organized by their elected and incredibly reckless PM David Cameron, wasting their future for party politics to placate some right-wing back benchers. Exploited by the journalist-turned-politician opportunist Boris Johnson, who saw an easy way to grab the office of Prime Minister, and not at all interested that in the process he was wrecking his own country. The opposition had no clue and no strategy. Even now, none of them have a plan, except to play it cool.

going for a ride

Brighton Palace Pier gambling

on shaky ground

reality

Millions of Europeans working in England worry about their livelihoods and future in the country that has harboured them, often for decades.

Millions of British young people feel cheated and scrapped of their future when they could have gone to study and work, live and raise families anywhere in the EU.

Brighton West Pier which burnt down in 2003

It was momentous to be in England during the time of the Brexit-vote. On Thursday, we went to bed peacefully having heard Nigel Farage concede defeat, and woke up on Friday morning to The Economist's headline "Brexit Remains" hardly believing our eyes.
We had been travelling through Kent and Sussex on the English coast coming from the continent via the Channel Tunnel. On the way we had seen "Leave" posters in windows wherever we went; in all the pretty rural villages, where we visited the beautiful and famous English gardens, windows spouted these ugly signs; we even had a rather unpleasant and for England up to now unusual encounter in our German car at a gas filling station; the very few "Remain" signs could not lift our spirits. When we reached Brighton, though, flags changed colours, the "leave" posters disappeared and "remain" signs turned up; so we took hope. It was not to last.

Do they really want to get back to porridge and baked beans for breakfast and the single leaf, single-ply, hard and shiny toilet paper? Do they really dream of the time of BSE (mad cow disease, in case you don't remember the 1980s) and the time when the daily milk regularly turned sour long before the gone-by-date? To dubious "Steak&kidney pie"? When people were dying of Salmonella poisoning due to a totally inefficient NHS and terrible agricultural practises ?

All is out of hands, out of control and up for negotiations. Liars dominate the media. England is divided, full of bitterness and seems rife for civil unrest. Its leadership is floating like characters in a Shakespearean tragedy, unfortunately quite real.

These are pictures I have taken on our visit to Brighton - slightly influenced by the mood .