Top image: Daniel w. Fletcher’s SS17 STAY protest

It’s been three days since the EU referendum results were revealed last Friday: the UK voted by 52% to 48% to leave the EU.

In the time since, a petition calling for a 2nd EU Referendum has reached 3,697,642 signatures, and counting (more than any other topic on the parliamentary website). According to procedures, the Government has to respond to all petitions that get more than 10,000 signatures, and ones reaching 100,000 or over must be debated in Parliament.

The backlash against Brexit has been fierce. In the days since the results, the pound’s value has dropped significantly, a string of racist attacks have been documented throughout Britain, a number of Leave promises have been U-turned, and Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said a second independence referendum was “highly likely” after the country overwhelmingly backed Remain, with Northern Ireland in a similar position.

Post-referendum, many Remain-ers feel disillusioned by the results and the manner in which the Leave campaign was fought (that racist propaganda, and Nigel Farage basking in his victory, announcing, “we won it without a bullet being fired” just ten days after MP Jo Cox was murdered by a crazed fascist). The majority of this frustration is being voiced by Britain’s youth (75% of people aged 18-24 claimed they voted for Remain), fuelling a state of disenchantment that has been brewing for sometime.

This all points to a significantly divided country, and with the current omnishambles within both the Labour and Conservative parties, an uncertain future lies ahead. Protests in London are being organised as we speak, and it’s looking like a summer of discontent is unavoidable.

The petition will be presented in Parliament this week.

Before the referendum we asked London designers how Brexit would affect them, read the results here.