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or is anyone else feeling unsettled and just want today to be over

733 replies

Gowgirl · 23/06/2016 13:02

Yes I have voted, but I am sick and tired of the unrest, I'm aware there has been a lot of discontent for a long time but its now feeling toxic and I want it to be over one way or the other.

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IDismyname · 23/06/2016 18:05

I'm so glad I'm not the only one feeling really rattled today. Got up early and took the dogs out in the pouring rain and had a good cry. Even the dogs looked sad.
Can't wait for the day to be over.
I haven't read all of the above, but suggestions of cake baking and or wine guzzling tonight are a good idea. I'm going to do the latter.

See you all out 'The Other Side'

Girlgonewild · 23/06/2016 18:06

Yes, I think we all have a lot in common and whatever the result we will come together, like the British usually do. I hope we have voted Remain and I think the stock market and currency markets and betting markets are all indicating that so I feel confidence in that but we shall see.

AdultingIsNotWhatIExpected · 23/06/2016 18:10

My polish friends here want remain over defence concerns (they have the burdon of an EU boarder)
But my Irish and Australian friends here are firmly Brexit, the Irish ones want Brexit because it paves the path for Ireland to exit, my Australian(dual) friends are concerned about immigration

So from that very scientific cross section, yes immigration is one of the issues, but immigrants are perfectly capable of having opinions about the EU that are about other issues, they don't have to just vote based on immigration alone just because they have themselves emigrated

squoosh · 23/06/2016 18:11

in this particular case, my Polish friends have seen for themselves the strain on the UK economy for services and realise the infrastructure just isn't there. They wouldn't want this for their own country.

So they don't feel that they're a strain? Just other people coming in. Okay then.

mummymeister · 23/06/2016 18:12

I think we will vote remain. I didn't but feel that once the result is out there 2 things will happen:

short term - conspiracy theories about the pencil crosses being rubbed out

long term - when Europe do us over and take away our vetos etc, there will be huge outcries from those that waivered and voted in. cant wait for the first "if I had known this was going to happen then I would have voted out" posts.

we live in a democracy and everyones vote counts equally. our polling station has been busy non stop and if nothing else perhaps it has reengaged a few people back into politics. the turnout on general elections is imo woeful.

so perhaps even though the vote isn't going to go the way I want it to, some positives will come out of this.

stocking up on the fruit and coffee as I plan to be up at 4am to watch the results come in.

squoosh · 23/06/2016 18:12

the Irish ones want Brexit because it paves the path for Ireland to exit

Never going to happen. Anyone who knows Ireland could tell you that Ireland is very pro EU.

AdultingIsNotWhatIExpected · 23/06/2016 18:14

Never going to happen. Anyone who knows Ireland could tell you that Ireland is very pro EU
Well it's probably never going to happen here either, but there lots of Irish people who like the idea of it, just as there are here

AdultingIsNotWhatIExpected · 23/06/2016 18:15

long term - when Europe do us over and take away our vetos etc, there will be huge outcries from those that waivered and voted in. cant wait for the first "if I had known this was going to happen then I would have voted out" posts.

Long term there's lots of second chances, people can vote in a eurosceptic government in the future and leave regardless of the outcome now

mrsfuzzy · 23/06/2016 18:17

too much scare mongering all round, the world isn't going to end what ever the out come.

squoosh · 23/06/2016 18:17

there lots of Irish people who like the idea of it, just as there are here

Not really. There's nowhere near the same levels of Euroscepticism in Ireland as there is here.

CodewordRochambeau · 23/06/2016 18:17

Ireland is very pro EU.

Indeed. European money has transformed Ireland, even allowing for the crash of the Celtic Tiger.

ElleBellyBeeblebrox · 23/06/2016 18:17

I have felt very out of sorts today too, combination of feeling anxious about the referendum result tomorrow, negativity and bile about it everywhere you turn, and the fucking weather which has been oppressive as hell here today.

green18 · 23/06/2016 18:17

So they don't feel that they're a strain? Just other people coming in. Okay then
No, when they came, they had no idea what was happening. They have now seen that this level of immigration cannot carry on.

squoosh · 23/06/2016 18:19

That's so civic minded of them green. I wonder if their concerns over immigration will question whether they should remain in the UK themselves.

AdultingIsNotWhatIExpected · 23/06/2016 18:19

Not really. There's nowhere near the same levels of Euroscepticism in Ireland as there is here.
But the Irish here are, well, here! aren't they? And all the Irish citizens I know who are living here and voting today are Brexit

squoosh · 23/06/2016 18:20

All of them? How many is that?

I know many Irish in the UK and I'm yet to meet one voting to Leave.

mummymeister · 23/06/2016 18:21

Adulting - I don't have your faith in the system. this is a once in a lifetime opportunity.

I do believe that the controls that the eu has lurking in the closet waiting for us to vote to stay, will effectively preclude there being such government in the future.

I give it 5 years and we will be in the single currency. less before our army starts being controlled by Europe. and as net contributors, wait to see those figures climb.

our so called European partners don't like us or want us, they want our money to pay for their pet projects. god I feel depressed now I have seen the exit poll stuff.

green18 · 23/06/2016 18:21

That's so civic minded of them green. I wonder if their concerns over immigration will question whether they should remain in the UK themselves.

Don't need the sarcasm here. They have just as much right to their opinion. They are not voting as they are not British citizens.They have an opinion.

squoosh · 23/06/2016 18:22

Yes they're immigrants that are anti immigration. It makes perfect sense.

LittleLionMansMummy · 23/06/2016 18:24

Odd. The Irish ones I know are voting remain.

thebestfurchinchilla · 23/06/2016 18:24

One of the main reasons I voted to leave is that the EU needs serious reform. Our biggest chance to get that failed. If we couldn't get reform when the rest of Europe knew we had a referendum coming up, does anyone seriously think we have a cat in hell's chance of reforming once we vote remain?

LaurieMarlow · 23/06/2016 18:24

the Irish ones want Brexit because it paves the path for Ireland to exit

Utter drivel. I'm an Irish citizen who lived in London for years and has just moved back. Every Irish person I know whether resident in UK or Ireland think the UK are out of their mind for even considering Brexit.

The Irish are very, very pro-Europe. An Irish exit is pretty much the last thing the Irish would want.

You are talking out of your arse. Mind you, I've seen a lot of that from Brexiters Hmm

green18 · 23/06/2016 18:25

Yes they're immigrants that are anti immigration. It makes perfect sense.
No they are against unlimited immigration.

CodewordRochambeau · 23/06/2016 18:25

There is no public exit poll.

JassyRadlett · 23/06/2016 18:25

I do believe that the controls that the eu has lurking in the closet waiting for us to vote to stay, will effectively preclude there being such government in the future.

And there would have to be a new treaty for that to happen. On which we would have a UK referendum and therefore would have the chance to reject it then.

Sigh. How many more hours of such blatant scaremongering?