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AIBU?

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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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BaboonBottom · 24/06/2016 08:03

I think for some people life is really shit, it's got shitter over the past 10 years things look only set to get worse for some. There's no way out and your kids are set on that path.

I think they've voted for change, i think leaving Europe is almost a side note to voting for that change.

dabofriojakitten · 24/06/2016 08:05

"We're you born in this country?"
"Yes"
"Oh right I don't care"

WHY ASK THEN. Absolute lol.

BillSykesDog · 24/06/2016 08:10

I feel the same as green. No need to gloat.

Cosmiccreepers203 · 24/06/2016 08:13

If you don't want to be called a racist perhaps don't ask questions that suggest you judge people based on race. I'm reporting you to MNHQ.

Margrethe · 24/06/2016 08:15

Let's get a grip here. We have uncertainty. We don't need to have 10 years of chaos, unless of course, the political class wants to punish us all out of spite for voting the wrong way.

I voted Remain out of caution. I wasn't red-hot on Remain. The majority of votes were Leave, and within the Remain votes, a lot were probably like mine, cautious and unenthusiastic. We are where we are. Uncertain times bring risks but also opportunities.

I want to see some leadership to make the best out of this situation, rather than give it over to people who are heavily emotionally invested in having their opposing opinion proved right.

So, for me, Cameron and Osborne have to go. How can they negotiate well for us?

I do hope that article 50 won't be invoked immediately. I hope that we will have a change in leadership. I hope that leadership will go back to the table with the EU, negotiate a better deal, run a second referendum, and we all stay in. That's what I would like. I am unlikely to get it though. And, if out means out, then I'd rather see the best possible result in this circumstance than to prove the Remainers right. I may have voted remain, but it is now in my best interest for the Leavers to have been right all along because we have voted Leave.

The Remainers claimed to be rational. The rational thing to do now is to accept the new reality and do everything possible to make it a success.

beetroot2 · 24/06/2016 08:20

We have new beginning

beetroot2 · 24/06/2016 08:22

we have a great future now. we are allowed a voice again without someone calling racism

beetroot2 · 24/06/2016 08:23

I love to learn about culture, I hate someone telling me I can't be English in my own country

dabofriojakitten · 24/06/2016 08:24

Look beetroot I hate to break it to you, but you sound PRETTY racist.

beetroot2 · 24/06/2016 08:26

thats your view. mine is when in England, blend and be you, but don't tell me what I should be.

scousesal · 24/06/2016 08:35

My daughter and many younger people see themselves as European as well as English and British . That is going to be taken away from them .

Cosmiccreepers203 · 24/06/2016 08:42

scousesal that's what I'm afraid of. That suddenly there will only be one way to be British.

Shariamom · 24/06/2016 08:43

I'm sorry scouseal, but as a white brit I can finally be British and proud in my own country again.
No longer do we have to be forced to be second class citizens in our own country.
We have our country back.
We have our borders back!!
Common sense has prevailed!
Britain for the British!! Not for the whole world

shovetheholly · 24/06/2016 08:45

cakey - I know! Someone on my Facebook feed just posted 'It's all fearmongring [sic] about the pound, they bought curincy [sic] before the vote so the drop looks bad but it is fine'.

The pound is now lower than it was during the previous recession. Here's a 10 year graph.

or is anyone else feeling unsettled and just want today to be over
Gowgirl · 24/06/2016 08:50

So far this morning I have had my mum on the phone crowing, and havenow seen beetroots remarks. Fucking hell! Is this what my kids are going to grow up in.......

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scousesal · 24/06/2016 08:55

I am white too but never felt less British today tbh

gotnewplates · 24/06/2016 08:55

Hey comic, not wanting to be personal but were you born in England? Biscuit

The racists and xenophobes are becoming more confident and secure in their racism and xenophobia. -but no, brexit wasn't about that oh no--

Question back to you Beetroot, what's your education level? Because born in Britain means fuck all when it gets to contributing to the economy and securing a decent job, intelligence and education on the the hand...

Beetroots (or her husbands if she is a sahm) CV:
Skills:

Born in BRITAIN don't you know.

Should be interesting when the 'working classes' (as referred to by brexiters) and people who rely on social housing, tax credits, unemployment benefits, NHS free at the point of service healthcare, pension and are faced with a dwindling social security system. Very interesting indeed.

scousesal · 24/06/2016 08:58

I a am white Brit to( not sure why that should matter)

CodewordRochambeau · 24/06/2016 09:02

beetroot
Shariamom

Your attitudes were racist yesterday and they are still racist today. You don't speak for 48% of us.

shovetheholly · 24/06/2016 09:02

OK, all those feeling despair. Get up! Get up! For there is work to do.

Inspired by shariamum I just joined Unite Against Fascism.

ElleBellyBeeblebrox · 24/06/2016 09:04

"Britain for the British" sounds extremely racist. And thick.And insular. I don't think that everyone who voted Leave is a gibbering racist but fucking hell some of them really are.

BillSykesDog · 24/06/2016 09:07

I suspect there may be a certain amount of trolling going on. Particularly as some apparent leavers on this thread don't have posting histories which match up to what they claim they believe now.

Shariamom · 24/06/2016 09:07

I'm not racist, i have no beef with non whites.
But I do deal with facts, and we can't afford to keep filling this country with immigrants

Girlgonewild · 24/06/2016 09:10

It was a bad call but here we are and have to make the best of it. I very much doubt we will have a second referendum even if a new EU deal is offered. This is it. We are out.

We will of course try to negotiate particular issues with the EU eg what customs duties do you pay etc, what is the visa charge to visit France, how much money can you take abroad or bring in. Stock market down about 7% in UK today so far.

Hiddenaspie1973 · 24/06/2016 09:10

I feel like the gag has been removed from my mouth. I can speak freely with less likelihood of being labelled a racist. Those who call racism try to suffocate freedom of speech. Thank goodness that is being recognised on a large scale.
I don't mind if I am regarded as thick for feeling this way.