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.

Its grey and humid here too, last nights thunderstorms didn't clear the air. Plus I live on the same road as our polling station. Constant traffic everyone looking grim going in......
I think I might go make a cake.

I assumed that this referendum was called more or less to shut all the Tory party members who kept going on about Europe up

Partly plus a number of other factors. Rise of UKIP etc

Let's not forget a lot of the hard left also want out.

They really don't mind if you put a tick or a cross. As long as you only tick one, and don't make any other marks on the paper.

adulting Tbf the pencil conspiracy has been around for years.

Another unsettled one here - I had a postal vote and sent it off before I went on holiday on 4th as all along I have been a remain.
Over the years I have stayed up for many election results but since DH died it doesn't appeal so much to do it alone. Maybe I will leave the radio or tv on tonight - but I may get too upset. I have just messaged DS to ask if he is staying up to know if I would have someone to chat to.

YANBU. I'm worried and a bit teary! I dont want us to leave

adulting Tbf the pencil conspiracy has been around for years

But not with this level of simmering unrest and divisiveness behind it!

And yeah, it feels horrible

Feel properly sick, upset, like anything could happen.

I hope that which ever side 'wins' it stays respectful.

Gloating etc will stoke the divisions in the country even more

I've been getting abuse from all my out voting family members. They don't realise my work will suffer with an OUT vote.

Only one sibling has voted to stay because they have a romanian partner and realising just how risky out would be.

But not with this level of simmering unrest and divisiveness behind it!

It was worse in some sections during GE.

SM doesn't help I don't think.

Yes, I voted this morning, but I feel unsettled. Neither tick made me feel content. Either way, it left something to be desired. Either way I know friends and neighbours will be frustrated/heart broken.

In real life, most of us look for middle paths, chances to collaborate and compromise. A binary choice becomes a zero sum, winners and losers.

I mean the feelings aren't going to go away tomorrow

Strong feeling leavers aren't going to be "okay, fair enough, people have spoken and we may as well embrace it I suppose and make the best of it" if it's remain

Strong feeling remainers aren't going to go with the flow and just sit back and watch our current government re-write our laws and futures without any sort of civil protest if we leave

I feel like the unrest has only just started. The campaigns haven't allowed the sides to really listen and talk and have civilised respectful debates.. and that's going to have a knock on effect

The pencil theories ran riot in the Scottish referendum too.

Some of the abuse thrown at 'each side' by some voters from 'each side' has been disgraceful.

You only have to see the threads on here.

My lovely next door neighbour was spat at by a Remainer and called racist for wanting to leave.

It has all become toxic.

I voted, I still don't know understand enough but I voted to remain because I feel it is the safest option.

I don't feel unsettled, I did in the GE but not this one. I guess that is the upshot of not really quite getting what exiting would mean for us.

PS I'm sure remain was the bottom box! I double checked so I know I voted correctly.

I fear that if we remain, UKIP will care more about proving themselves right than they do about the country, and will continue to infultrate the EU and domestic government to make sure our experience of Remain is as negative and dangerous as possible so that they can be smug and say "told you so, if you'ld listened to us at the referendum this wouldn't be happening, now vote us in the next general elections so that we can continue to fuck up the EU from the inside with our right wing european friends and continue to prove ourselves right"

I'm dreading the result. Last time I felt like this, I woke up the next day devastated that labour had won. 1997.

Yes. I want it to be over. It has been awful.

not really quite getting what exiting would mean for us.

It's true.

No one knows what will happen in the future whether we stay or go. That imo is why it's been hard.

nosireebob I am in the same position. I also worry that a remain vote will make the haters hate more. At least the economy isn't likely to take a dip after Remain. The minute i see that my dc experience racism for being the offspring of European parents, I'm out of here.

I'm sure remain was the bottom box! I double checked so I know I voted correctly.

It was the top box on the postal vote.

It's always been a pencil when voting hasn't it?
Have the people moaning about it on Facebook never voted before?

Trying to keep busy, trying not to think about what could happen. The company my husband works for needs a particular outcome for continued success. If they fail, we could be left with only the pittance I earn. :(

I never remember any campaign getting so nasty. I have never before seen a colleague shouting their opinions at another colleague in public. And I do mean shouting.

I believe people will stick with the status quo in the end. they did in Scotland and they will today. It will rumble on for another month, then the politicians will break up for their long summer holidays ( cue dave and sam in cornwall pictures and Boris on a lilo somewhere..) and the rest of us will just have to get on with life! My parents both voted NO in 1975 for the common market ( different to the current EU) and today my elderly dad voted remain! Shows how people can change their views over the decades. I do feel uneasy though, but a lot is the weather and the uncertainty about life in general I think.. ( and the flooding round our way too)