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

[Gowgirl]

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.

If votes were going to be sabotaged they'd chuck them in the bin lol.....

Well quite! A much more efficient use of MI5's time than having them rubbing out crosses on thousands of ballots!

Yes I have anxiety. Unsettled. Agitated with the kids.

I too dread another Scottish referendum if it's Leave.

But mostly I dread what this campaign has dredged up.

I know there are acquaintances I don't want anything to do with anymore, its a bit like the masks have come off the last few weeks.

It will b eover soon and we will all make the best of whatever the result in. I want people to vote remain and I did not like the signs placed overnight on many local lamp posts by Brexit supporters. I wonder if they had planning permission? They must have gone up on ladders to put them up as they are not within human height range.

This is a great article and I think everyone should read it.

No matter what happens with the vote things have to change.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/23/united-kingdom-two-nations-political-chasm-left

Yes, and then enough people voted Tory in 2015 to let this whole thing go ahead.

Last year a work colleague voted Tory she said because of "benefits scroungers" and Labour breaking the economy. Since then she has complained about public service cuts and tax avoidance. When I tell her about Osborne's economic record she just looks at me with a blank face. She is voting out.

My in laws (working class Labour voters) are also voting out. They say because of "immigration" despite living in a town that must have a population of about 98% white British. FiL does get his car washed on Sunday morningS by a Polish bloke down the road for £3.

Politics can be depressing sometimes.

Where have you got that from???

shes making it up...

It really is like the calm in the centre of the hurricane!

I will be surprised if Out wins. Leavers and Remainers are neck and neck it's true, but the don't knows are always more likely to vote for the status quo, which gives In the edge.

I will be interested to see how different areas of the country will vote. My impression is that voters in rural regions are tending towards out, and urban voters towards In. But I may be wrong.

I feel uneasy. Like when we went into the Iraq war and the Syria bomb vote. I want to apologise to the rest of the world and tell them this is Not In My Name all over again.

I'm gutted to find out how racist some of my inlaws are, the crap they have regurgitated on facebook is appalling. Ditto my colleagues.

I will be glad when it is all over. It will be close, but my prediction ( for what it is worth) is we will stay in the EU.
I am not a fan of Dave or any of them , but he stuck to his word ( I know he had his arm up his back, but still) and at least the whole sorry affair will be over with and , I am hoping, the policitians can go back to running the country and dealing with issues that affect ordinary people. As someone said on the radio, when they canvas people at General Election time, the EU is pretty much bottom of the list of worries that people have, the top ones being the usual, schools, NHS, jobs, unemployment and local problems/ housing. Its been an odd campaign, hard to get my head around at times.

You have to accept that the majority of people on both sides are voting for legitimate reasons.

I have seen what I see as daft reasons that people have given on both sides.

I have a remain friend who's only reason for voting remain is because she wants cheap holidays.

I have seen leave friend who could never vote the same as Cameron.

I am so on edge today. I live in an area with high levels of xenophobia and bigotry (but extremely low number of immigrants). My own parents are voting out simply on the basis that "we can't sustain this level of immigration" and "we can tighten our borders and make our own laws again"! They are so blinkered in their view and have not once thought about the economic implications of a brexit. My dp's parents are also voting out- his dp once actually said "Donald Trump talks a lot of sense"! It's all so disgusting! Someone on my fb actually pointed out to an outer this morning that the area they live in had had a massive regeneration project funded by the EU including a cinema complex and their response was "yeah but it's no good when you're sitting in there next to a Romanian or Albanian with a knife in their pocket".
I'm just going to hope my vote for remain makes a difference.

I agree. Feel quite uncomfortable and want the next 24hrs to be over with.

I think it will be very close (which will cause more unrest) but i think we will stay in.

I feel this way. I wonder whether it's partly the weather? It's so humid, it amplifies the anxiety.

I must admit I've felt sort of on edge since Jo Cox was killed. I assumed that this referendum was called more or less to shut all the Tory party members who kept going on about Europe up. Didn't someone really close to David Cameron once refer to them as swivel-eyed loons? It seems to have got more serious than that.

tired, apparently over 3m jobs in the UK rely on our EU membership.

DH'S job would also potentially at risk. I hope that none of this happens and we're all ok. We also have small DC so I understand

I am hoping, the policitians can go back to running the country and dealing with issues that affect ordinary people

Have a look at the link I posted. Unless they start to address this sort of things it won't happen.

It has brought out racism and bigotry on my FB feed, I had no idea some of my friends thought that way.

Me too

'Last year a work colleague voted Tory she said because of "benefits scroungers" and Labour breaking the economy. Since then she has complained about public service cuts and tax avoidance'

Its utterly maddening. I have a friend who worked for the NHS for 25 years, who consistently votes Tory and will probably be voting for Leave today, who moans and complains about cuts to public services and her friend who works for the council being made redundant. She reads the Daily Mail every day. She also thinks Boris Johnson is hilarious and Jeremy Corbyn is the spawn of Satan. We tend to stick to other topics when we get together

I don't think it'll go away tomorrow, there's a high level of unrest that I haven't seen in my life before.

If we remain, the staunch leavers will be angry, and facebook nonsense is already gearing up to call it a fix (the pencil nonsense), and that is only the start. We will be divided for YEARS into those who voted remain and those who voted leave, and everthing shit that happens will be blamed on the people that voted remain -even if it would have happened either way-

If we leave, again it's just the start, and both sides will end up angry. Those who believe we will get to decide our laws will be shaken by the lack of consultation on hastily drawn up laws, the division will have only just begun because now it'll be about who leads the process over the next 10 years, and even amonst leavers this will be divisive: the closed borders leavers Vs Lexit leavers who want trade and some movement…

and either way there'll be an even bigger hard left Vs hard right (and IMO extremems of either left or right are dangerous) by the next general election

So this really is just the start :-(
Unless the sides start to respect each other rather than allowing ourselves to be divided and name call