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To still be really sad and angry about Brexit

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OptimismvsRealism · 03/06/2024 17:27

It really reduced the opportunities in my future and has achieved absolutely nothing of benefit for anyone else (besides disaster capitalists who made a mint off the financial manipulation effect). We haven't even avoided those stupid fecking tethers on the bottle lids!

When the extra immigration checks come in in October it's going to make every holiday a tiny bit upsetting.

And the new government won't even try to fix it.

Don't get me wrong I'm not one of those idealists singing ode to joy before breakfast but on a personal level it bloody sucks and seems likely it always will.

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JourneyToThePlacentaOfTheEarth · 03/06/2024 18:51

I will never get over it. I have family members who voted for brexit and I regularly ask them if they're happy now??? I'm sad for my kids and for the country. What a waste of time and a waste of resources. If people knew the amount of working hours and funding it took the civil service to get to this stage they would never think brexit was a good thing

Poachedeggavocado · 03/06/2024 18:50

whyhavetheygotsomany · 03/06/2024 18:45

Time you got over it 🙄

No. I won't. It was a stupid decision and it's fucked us over for the long term. Racists are happy and that is not a good thing.

Glasto73lover · 03/06/2024 18:48

whyhavetheygotsomany · 03/06/2024 18:45

Time you got over it 🙄

Why should we get over it though?

People were conned into voting for a lie. The country is a fucking binfire as a result.

I am still angry for my kids and the students I work with who have had so much taken away from them.

I want my European passport back.

whyhavetheygotsomany · 03/06/2024 18:45

Time you got over it 🙄

Rainydayinlondon · 03/06/2024 18:45

Whatafustercluck · 03/06/2024 18:32

Those who are still sad and angry need to campaign and lobby to rejoin. It's done, it's shit, focus on change for the future.

The positive I am taking away from Farage standing again is that he will split the Tory vote and help them further along the line of political obsolescence.

As for wishing the man dead, well... I agree that's harsh. But then part of me remembers there's a hair's breadth between him and Hitler. How many have wondered how different things may have been had Hitler died sooner? Fascism creeps in, it doesn't thump on the door and announce its own arrival.

I think to compare Farage to Hitler is minimising those who died and suffered horrifically under the Naxi regime.

Abhannmor · 03/06/2024 18:43

J2os · 03/06/2024 18:26

Same. And even Brexit voters now say it hasn’t achieved anything they hoped for. It makes me so sad- we’re all poorer, with fewer opportunities, and made to look ridiculous as a country and for nothing. And the politicians who promoted it have just moved onto the next thing.

Yes I feel sorry for the people who were conned. They thought the NHS would be improved and everything else would carry on as before more or less.

Not a Thatcher fan but she was right about one thing : Referendums are a weapon of dictators usually and should have a high threshold for a vote to change things fundamentally.

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OptimismvsRealism · 03/06/2024 18:40

gemsgv · 03/06/2024 18:39

I'm still mad that my life was pretty much switched off for 2 years to pander to other people's fears

Yes lockdown was insane but at least it isn't still going.

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Lunaballoon · 03/06/2024 18:39

Another one who will never forgive David Cameron and the Tories for paving the way for Brexit, which was then and still is, all about short-term political gain (fighting off UKIP/Reform).

gemsgv · 03/06/2024 18:39

I'm still mad that my life was pretty much switched off for 2 years to pander to other people's fears

fashionqueen0123 · 03/06/2024 18:39

J2os · 03/06/2024 18:26

Same. And even Brexit voters now say it hasn’t achieved anything they hoped for. It makes me so sad- we’re all poorer, with fewer opportunities, and made to look ridiculous as a country and for nothing. And the politicians who promoted it have just moved onto the next thing.

That makes me even crosser when I hear the ‘brexit hasn’t been done properly’ rubbish.
No it is exactly what remainers said it would be and when the extra checks on imports and going for holidays start it will be even worse.

Glasto73lover · 03/06/2024 18:39

OptimismvsRealism · 03/06/2024 18:35

As a pp has observed, it's really just preferring to put the harm in a different place.

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I wish ill on him OP to be honest.

He’s disgusting racist - plenty of kids have died in the channel now there are no safe legal routes for people to claim asylum. I blame him.

Poachedeggavocado · 03/06/2024 18:37

Yes still angry. And infuriated that Cameron got to just throw in the towel and live a lovely life after kicking it all off. And to answer a pp, whilst I wouldn't wish death on anyone, yes I'm disappointed Farage made it out of that plane wreck. As a non white British person I think he's made life for us really difficult and it didn't need to be like this. I despise him and Johnson.

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OptimismvsRealism · 03/06/2024 18:36

I wonder if anyone besides the super extremists still supports Brexit. It is a real shame Labour won't help to fix things.

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OptimismvsRealism · 03/06/2024 18:35

DoWeAllMakeMistakes · 03/06/2024 18:34

You know you’ve got right on your side when you’re wishing people dead ….

As a pp has observed, it's really just preferring to put the harm in a different place.

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DoWeAllMakeMistakes · 03/06/2024 18:34

You know you’ve got right on your side when you’re wishing people dead ….

Whatafustercluck · 03/06/2024 18:32

Those who are still sad and angry need to campaign and lobby to rejoin. It's done, it's shit, focus on change for the future.

The positive I am taking away from Farage standing again is that he will split the Tory vote and help them further along the line of political obsolescence.

As for wishing the man dead, well... I agree that's harsh. But then part of me remembers there's a hair's breadth between him and Hitler. How many have wondered how different things may have been had Hitler died sooner? Fascism creeps in, it doesn't thump on the door and announce its own arrival.

LighthouseCat · 03/06/2024 18:32

Yes, still sad and angry.

Wheelbarrowbabe · 03/06/2024 18:31

tennesseewhiskey1 · 03/06/2024 18:28

Sorry - your not wishing that he was in an air crash so brexit wouldn't have happened? Surely not.

People will die as an indirect result of the poverty and chaos caused by Brexit. Have done already. I think it's completely reasonable to prefer an alternate reality in which Farage died in an air crash. It's not the same as actually assassinating him (which I do not condone). He didn't do this by accident, or without knowing the consequences, he's a bad man.

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OptimismvsRealism · 03/06/2024 18:30

tennesseewhiskey1 · 03/06/2024 18:28

Sorry - your not wishing that he was in an air crash so brexit wouldn't have happened? Surely not.

He WAS in an air crash but was rescued. Sliding doors. His good fortune was misfortune for 66m Brits and a fair few Europeans.

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tennesseewhiskey1 · 03/06/2024 18:28

Sorry - your not wishing that he was in an air crash so brexit wouldn't have happened? Surely not.

HappyHolidai · 03/06/2024 18:28

And the general election is coming with absolutely nothing offered for those of us who are so upset. No one is talking about the opportunities Brexit lost us and who is to blame. No one is talking about how to move to rebuild relationships with the EU and salvage what might be possible. Why not?!?!

ExasperatedManager · 03/06/2024 18:27

Yanbu, I won't ever "get over it" either. I will never forgive those that campaigned for it or the twats that voted for it. A monumental act of national self harm.

J2os · 03/06/2024 18:26

Same. And even Brexit voters now say it hasn’t achieved anything they hoped for. It makes me so sad- we’re all poorer, with fewer opportunities, and made to look ridiculous as a country and for nothing. And the politicians who promoted it have just moved onto the next thing.

SavetheNHS · 03/06/2024 18:25

I too am sad and angry. So much damage, for nothing. It has helped the rich and powerful get even more wealth and even more power.
I hate Farage so much. I don't wish him dead but I do hate him.

SpringKitten · 03/06/2024 18:25

I agree OP. I am sad for my children, sad for the country. I will never “get over it”. I’ll be sad forever about the damage Brexit has done, the waste and stupidity of it.