Brexit rage

[holeinyourhead]

What's happened in the last 10 days has really affected me. It's all I think about tbh and I feel so enraged at seeing the politicians lie to us so lavishly then bail on us so swiftly, yet I'm completely powerless to do anything. I marched, I wrote to my MP, I've signed petitions. I'm obviously one of the 48% who wanted to remain. I can't find fault with the 52% who voted to leave, it's not their fault. It's a democratic process, I understand that of course. Everyone's entitled to their view and it's not that I'm a sore loser. But the catastrophic fallout isn't what even the most hardline leave voter would have wished for, there's no Brexit plan, and the future looks very bleak. I was at a conference today and a Conservative MP and a Brussels Eurocrats both agreed a recession in the medium term is now inevitable. People around me seem to be getting on with things - I wish I could too - but I've been very tearful and sleepless and worried sick. I run a European business just out of start up phase, employing a handful of people who by chance are not British born and who are now very nervous themselves about the future. The more I read the more hopeless I feel with each passing resignation. AIBU to feel like this? Does anyone else feel the same? Am I going nuts?!! I feel very alone.

It isn't conjecture at all. If nothing else there will be jobs in the administration that relates to Brexit.

Well, there probably will be short- to medium-term jobs in the negotiation and administration of trade agreements and more generally in extricating us from the EU, probably in London (where these government departments sit), probably for the kinds of educated London-based workers who would've otherwise been employed anyway. So not that helpful to the broader British economy, certainly not those who are seeing their manufacturing plants and steelworks close.

Ffs. There'll probably be an uptick in the number of bailiffs and debt collectors too. Whoop de fucking doo.

Time will tell what the actual numbers of jobs lost, kept and gained are. The voice of doom will make things worse though as the success of any economy is largely based on expectations.

I disagree tht "the voice of doom" will make things worse. It is called being realistic and planning ahead - unfortunately not many leavers like to do this which is why it is hard to explain the LIKELY scenarios. Unless it is bunnies and rainbows no leavers want to listen. I get it, you don't want to believe you were taken in and now you voted for something much worse. Fair enough.

But when we all say the poor are going to suffer, don't dismiss that as the voice of doom. It has been proven globally time and time again. The poor will always suffer in poor times.

I don't doubt eventually people will have jobs. How much they get paid, conditions they work in and whether they are happy is a different matter. I do believe welfare will be severely cut and maybe people forced into factory work or similar (if we get some investors to build them) but as I said before, the conditions and pay are unlikely to be better than the immigrant status currently.

And YY to the poster who pointed out that sadly most jobs involving the legalities and trade agreements of Brexit will be for lawyers and business experts (are we still allowed to use that word?) who have higher education qualifications and probably speak several languages. Not really your average leaver voter who wants industry back and immigrants out, sadly.