My local pub is having a Brexit party

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I know it's early but there are lots of pissed young men already in my local and Union Jack hats/flags/banners aplenty plus a buffet (still covered up for later). Am in the North. Anyone else?

I think it's quite sweet. Most of these people feel disaffected and have little control over their fortune. They feel like they've won the lottery. They'll find out soon enough that they didn't and that's going to be a bitter pill to swallow. At least let them have their moment tonight.

Are the NHS celebrating their "windfall" tonight?

@nixkix noooo I'm not remotely comparing the two! And don't mean it to be a reflection on my views on brexit. I meant it in relation to the OP being surprised people who were too young to vote in the referendum were out celebrating.

Also that buffet looked good!

No parties or celebrations in any pub near me. And I have seven pubs within walking distance.

Some of the comments on here are disgusting. Of course only stupid, working class people who live on 'estates' voted leave. 🙄
I can't believe what I read on here sometimes.

Hope you had s good party op. Our local pub had one too. I was a bit gutted I couldn't make it as I had tickets for something else. They always do a great party and amazing food.

I love a good buffet, but no way would I have gone anyway near a pub having a Brexit party and if that was my local I'd want to move.

Some of the comments on here are disgusting. Of course only stupid, working class people who live on 'estates' voted leave. 🙄 I thought the stereotype was that older people in the North like me voted Leave - except I voted Remain. Personally, I believe anyone who voted Leave is, if not stupid, misguided. Apart from the wealthy who will gain from it, they knew exactly what they were doing (Farage, Rees-Mogg et al).

That's the thing with stereotypes though.....they're dangerous and misinformed. The leave voters I know have come from all sections of society and hold varying views. They're not one homogeneous group.

I've been disgusted by the language and vitriol aimed at leave voters.
When history looks back at this, that is what we should be ashamed and embarrassed about.
I saw one post other other day saying they can't wait to see the working class population suffer for the choices they've made. Who the fuck says things like that .....can you imagine if you replaced ' working class' with women or a particular ethnicity? Why is it seen as acceptable to mock and look down on working class people? And are people really so narrow minded that they think all working class people voted leave?

Of course only stupid, working class people who live on 'estates' voted leave.

I commented that the only pub I know of that was having a party was on an estate on the other side of town. I live on a different estate.

You read into it that it’s a working class estate.

It was the 'flat roof pub' comment tbh. Don't pretend it was meant it in anything less than a derogatory way.

My local Barnados charity shop is festooned with union jacks to celebrate Brexit.

There are 'stereotypes' for a reason....if you have low income, low level of education, live in a deprived area and are older you are more likely to have voted to leave the EU.

That's not to say those are the only people who voted leave - there are of course exceptions both ways. But if you don't like being 'lumped in' or 'typecast' then maybe you need to do some serious re-thinking.

www.jrf.org.uk/report/brexit-vote-explained-poverty-low-skills-and-lack-opportunities?gclid=Cj0KCQiA4NTxBRDxARIsAHyp6gB8lbbrQZwENGyz8We0do0RTVLbuaXQjyccpM4CC8_2DiTd55HekpwaAvlkEALw_wcB

My local Barnados charity shop is festooned with union jacks to celebrate Brexit.
Do Barnados know about that? I suspect they will not be happy. Their own commissioned research puts Brexit fears at the top, and they are campaigning to remain part of Europol and Eurojust for child protection reasons.

I voted remain.
I understand what stereotypes are and the implications of allowing stereotypes to influence behaviour.

I think the way a lot of people talk about leave voters is nothing short of disgusting. To think your vote is worth more because you earn more and had a better formal education is disgraceful.

My local Barnados charity shop is festooned with union jacks to celebrate Brexit.

I just passed a coffee shop which was also festooned with union jacks, I assume to celebrate Brexit as it doesn't usually have them. It seems rather shortsighted to alienate a possible 48 per cent of your customers. Our town has many, many coffee shops, and certainly as someone who feels pretty sad and depressed about Brexit I don't want to go into one that is celebrating it, when I have a choice of many others.

I agree that it is stupid to piss off half your actual or potential customers. I live in a 57% Leave area, but the only business to hang out a massive flag (St George, not Union, so at least they are being honest) is a barber - he also put a Tory poster in his window during the GE. Fucking arse.

I’m in Wales and some cunts were letting off fireworks just after 11 last night. My area voted remain by a pretty big majority but clearly not everyone agrees.

I’m genuinely flummoxed as to why anyone is celebrating or assuming we’re all doomed. It’s too early to tell yet whether this is going to be a total shit show or a slightly less shitty shit show.

I seriously hope that the way Leave voters refer to Remainers is what history condemns. In all the groups I have participated in there has been wry or black humour, sorrow, grief, anger. But not usually hate crimes.

www.edp24.co.uk/news/crime/racist-poster-put-up-in-norwich-tower-block-1-6494242

I'm sure we can go tit for tat all day with stories of people on both sides of the argument behaving abhorrently.

However, just take a cursory glance at any Brexit post on here. It doesn't take long before leavers ( as an apparent homogeneous group) are called stupid, ignorant, racist....and those are the polite insults.
Not only is that not true it's disgraceful.
And I say that as someone who voted remain.