A thread for those who are sad we are leaving the EU today

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What will you miss about being an EU member state? Do you plan to join any campaign to re-join? What worries you about Brexit or do you think it will be okay?

I will miss being a part of something bigger than us and being in immediate cooperation with our friends and neighbours, I am worried about the direction our country will now take, and also about the negative economic impact of leaving.

I’m worried about the economic impact of leaving - we joined the then EEC because we needed to for trade reasons, we were suffering being outside the trading block. I can’t see that anything has changed in that respect and we will no doubt suffer again.
I worry about the direction the country is taking - we have had European friends shouted at to god home’ on the streets of London and it saddens me.
I will miss the ease of being part of Europe - of being able to live / work wherever we wanted in the EU (currently an ex pat living in the EU so this has had a direct effect on me)

I’m extremely worried, little Britain is not a pleasant place and is looking economically unviable.

Yes but we wre going to be overwhelmed with people saying we are wrong shortly

There are plenty of other threads for those kinds of views. I'm sad - we've been in the EEC/EU my whole life and it's given me opportunities and friendships. Hopefully things won't be as dire as feared when the transition phase is over.

It's such a gobsmackingly stupid move that I can't summon the energy to express why, yet again. Look at the thousands of job losses over the past couple of years, many of which were jobs that brexiters were relying on, yet, now clutching their ESA applications, they're still cheering for Nigel and his mates. It's very depressing. I'll miss everything especially the delusion that I live in a fair-minded country where live and let live applies. Not the case.

I hope we can keep this thread for us. I feel really sad, I'm European and always will be. So many missed opportunities.

I regret that "little england" inward-looking has won out over a "part of europe" outwards gaze.

I think that a lot of people who voted leave did do because they feel very insecure and hopeless in their day-to-day lives. Sadly, I think the result of leaving will compound that. I wonder if the seat of power will shift northwards, as was mooted at one point for the H of P? That would be amazingly helpful.

I'm sad.
I don't understand why people voted for this.
I have lots of European friends, have lived there and do business there...it's wonderful - why distance ourselves from allies?
The whole western world seems to have become more right-wing and that worries me.
I'm concerned the economy will suffer and prices will rise. I am planning some building work this year and have been told to prepare for 30% price rises on materials.

I'm really sad. I got my new passport in the post last week and it doesn't have European Union on it anymore :(

It'll make my life abroad more complex, I hope I don't ever need to relocate my family back to the UK to look after my aging mother because I'll surely have trouble given my DH and kids are all Norwegian not British. I'm sad for everyone wanting to make such a move as I did as it'll no longer be so easy, I'm sad for families caught with a split in the divide, I'm worried for my family still in the UK and the financial implications that Brexit could bring. The whole thing is just sad.

It's a complete fucking disaster. I'm getting drunk and hoping it'll all be just a bad dream when I wake up in the morning.

I'm an EU national married to a Brit, and today is my birthday. We're having an EU-snacks evening tonight, with Italian wine, French cheese, Belgian chocolates, Dutch stropwafels, etc.

I am so sad. My children will still be EU nationals because of me, but so many other people have lost a beautiful benefit.

Not just sad but also angry tbh.

But I'm European at heart and nobody can take that away.

I probably won't be worst hit, but worried for those who will lose their jobs and have been sold a lie.

One of the worst days in British history imo. Certainly in my lifetime.

Very sad day.

Stronger together.

I am very sad that it's happening. I'm concerned about the impact on students wanting to study abroad with Erasmus. I know there is some talk of mutually carrying on the agreement, I hope it continues otherwise studying abroad will just be for the elite.

A sad day indeed.

I've been anti-Brexit the whole time but I suppose I blocked out the fact that it could actually happen. I always had hope that somehow, it would go through (blinkered, I know). Then this week I have actually felt a true sadness about it and without trying to sound cliched, I just feel dreadful not only for myself but also for my children. It's just awful.

Thanks for this thread. As an expat, I feel really sad and worried. And I feel very apprehensive for the UK and my close family who live there.

I can't see how it will be anything but more bureaucratic (ironically) and expensive to travel and to import and export food, drugs and goods to and from Europe from 2021 onwards. If Boris is going for Canada + , there will be no "frictionless" trade and that can only harm what is left of British manufacturing which relies so heavily on "just in time" supply lines.

I don't understand how farmers are going to be able to farm more sustainably, and maintain high or higher welfare standards, as well as suck up the cost of Brexit. I particularly worry for our hill farmers in the North of England, Wales and Scotland.

More than that though, I mourn the fact that we are losing our voice and influence and membership of a group of neighbours and trading partners who are largely moderate Christian social democratic in outlook, who cooperate peacefully, exchange scientific, security, environmental know-how and knowledge and who, together, provide much better leverage and clout when trading with other powerful countries than we could possibly have on our own.

It's taken compromise and understanding and hard work over 40 years to create this cooperation and Cameron and others allowed it to be so easily destroyed by a binary "tick" without knowing what the future will hold. That was very irresponsible I think ...and for what?

I really genuinely struggle to see any positives.

I think this is one of the the biggest gambles the UK will probably ever take.

I am so sad today. The last 3.5 years have been a mixture of hope and despair and now here we are. I just can't believe it's come to this, I think I'll be a mess at 11pm - hugs to all 😢🇪🇺

I am in mourning.

And also fucking raging at the idiots who voted for this.

I wouldn't trust Alexander Johnson and his cronies to run a bath. I'm not really sad anymore (other than about the prospect of the UK breaking up), I just think it's a complete load of arse.

Argh, typo in my earlier post. It should've said "it wouldn't go through", obviously.

@Subtractingcalories I live in the rural North of England and most of the farmers I know round here (all hill farmers) strongly wanted Brexit. I worry for them too.

My DC and I have lost a beautiful benefit also.

"United we stand, divided we fall."

It's not a happy day here.

I'm still astounded that this has actually happened. How can people vote for something unknown?

Out of the frying pan into the fire springs to mind.

I'd like to feel sad, I just feel full of rage.

(Might be the peri-menopause too)

The shit Brexiteers come out with is just bewildering. Still, friends genuinely feel at last their self-esteem or sense of worth and pride will be better tomorrow - so that's nice.

I feel very sad and apprehensive. I'm Polish but have lived here for more than half of my life. Feel properly at home here, have done for a very long time.
These past few years have been so strange. I guess it is true about people living in bubbles, but I would never have predicted the direction the country chose.