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

[Anxious1013]

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 didn’t know what to expect, but we have lost a significant part of our identity IMO . Lost at sea with Boris and Dominic Cummings in charge, with Nigel Farage grinning maniacally from the sidelines and Anne Widdecombe saying the UK will never campaign to re-join (WTAF). It is actually a nightmare we can’t wake up from.

Dangerous lunatics in charge of the asylum.

Me too @screamingvalhalla.

So sad

Now I can't stop crying.

abba's Bjorn - one of us is lonely

Hugs to all .

I believe we can only really wait and see, whilst remaining politically active (if that's your thing). People will begin to reap what they sow. But even then, if the vision of Brexit doesn't live up to the expectation and hype, I still don't believe the leave contingent will admit their mistake. They will just blame someone else; probably remainers or the EU.

Thanks Anxious1013

Night all.

Thanks for the supportive thread tonight, hugs and EU love to you all ❤️🇪🇺 xx

When the rest of the world is moving ahead at pace, the UK has just regressed half a century. A sad day indeed.

the UK has just regressed half a century

Yes, with Nigel Farage and his Rule Britannia followers representing us to the world in the media yesterday . Sad and embarrassing.

I've always felt far more European than allied to the US. I've never liked the 'special relationship' which I've always thought meant we jumped when the US asked us to, and in return got the occasional pat on the head. Being outside the EU makes us much more reliant on the US economically and politically.

I loved being part of such a diverse and culturally enriching group. I dislike a lot of the anti-intellectual attitudes in the UK, and felt more aligned to much of Europe in that sense. I can't stand the little-Englander, we have an Empire brigade and I fear they have won the battle for British values, which I find devastating.

I'm concerned for our economic future. I am concerned that rights will be eroded.

We are taking our car to France in the summer. I've just ordered this.

I think everyone on the thread has already said what I think but I can’t resist posting just because I feel so scared and angry about it. What a stupid act of waste and self harm. All to satisfy Tory party in-fighting and done knowingly at a time when we were in no way asking a fair question of the UK public at the 2016 referendum.

The anti EU public sentiment thats been inevitable after decades of anti- EU politics in the media and public life goes so deep now that I feel we’ll not be able to turn that around for generations, if we ever can do.

I know there are massive UK problems and we have economic and social inequality on a rampant scale to solve and understandably that this contributed hugely to the Leave Vote. But leaving the EU seems likely to make life so much worse for the very people who can bear it the least.

I feel that us leaving the EU means a further loss of that post war sense of human solidarity and tolerance. This has been vital to shaping our peacetime lives and institutions and it was so incalculably hard won. I feel like we’ve let go of an ideal of international cooperation and justice that is precious and was for us to protect and keep up after all of that wartime suffering. I am scared that that spirit is needed to keep us from repeating those same kinds of mistakes. I can’t really even put it into words. It just feels like a tragedy is happening with us all being slowly dragged backwards.

I feel like my parents are getting divorced but my dad didn't want it. And last night my mum made him go anyhow. Because she got a horrific new 'friend'.

'Uncle' Nigel Farage ... crowing with delight as he moves his things into my parents' room and shutting the door and us not being able to go in for ages ... omg ...

I too am fearful for our future.
Our rights will be eroded - the brexiteers told us that during the campaign - they called it red tape for business.
The most depressing thing for me is the triumphalism of leavers whilst calling for unity. They have got everything they say they wanted and remainers have got nothing - no concessions whatsoever. Yet we are more than half the people. It makes no sense. And all to settle unrest in the Tory party.
I really hope that the ordinary person living in the EU realise that there are many, many people in the UK who did not vote for this and do not want this.

I've just ordered two of these stickers DappledThings and will use them in France this summer. Thanks for the info.

No fireworks near us last night. I suspected the neighbours opposite, who fly a Union Jack from a flagpole in their garden, might have planned a celebration, but if so they kept it in their house thankfully.

I like that sticker, Dappled.

We're also going to France in the summer and I've been brushing up on my French, in particular how to say 'we didn't vote for brexit, we think it's a bad idea'. Just in case it comes up in conversation.

I've sent the link to the sticker to my parents too. they are 67 and 71 and my mum has been really upset the last few years that people will assume she voted leave because of her age. Both of them are absolutely gutted right now.

I've had to leave fb, the gloating was awful. People just don't seem to be able to look ahead and the xenophobia is really worrying. My partner is not from the UK and I'm worried for our children in this new little Britain.

I don't know whether miss is the correct word, but I believe Brexit to be an act of economic self-harm, and so feel for those on the lowest incomes who are most likely to suffer hardship as a result.