To think we deserve a recession?

[ladyjadey]

Although it will hurt my family, my wage and DPs wage, I kind of think we deserve to be punished for being 'the stupid brits' who voted for brexit. I voted remain and sincerely wish we had, but now we are leaving I think we deserve what we get. In future people might think twice.....

If ladyjady reresents the mindset of the remain camp, it would seem to point to a very nasty bunch of people indeed.

Yeah, all based on one poster. Brexit logic.

Sentence should have "judging by" removed to make sense - sorry.

Well at least you have proved that not all "remainers" are intelligent

Have a With that cup of goad

Here OP, have the whole fucking packet

Idiot

Have just read that the 37% of the electorate who voted leave (vs the 35% who voted remain - 2% difference which would have had Farage campaigning forever had the result been reversed), represents 26.7% of the population.

Massive constitutional and economic upheaval based on these figures?? IMO there has to be a lot more serious debate and a General Election before anybody proposes invoking Article 50.

You're right. It was a well documented risk of voting Brexit. I'll share the biscuits from above with you.

You do realise we get recessions on a reasonably regular basis, don't you?

Dozy OP.

I don't want anyone to lose their job or homes or have to access food banks.

Why would you want that for people, however they voted?

No, you are not. I agree with you.

And I'm someone who cried when she heard the result of the referendum.

By the way, thinking that someone deserves X is not the same thing as wanting X to happen or being happy that X happens. As I see it, it's more a matter of making one's bed and lying in it.

Ridiculous point. And yes, I voted remain and yes, a recession was pretty certain.
Recessions disproportionately affect the poorest. So even if someone is poor and a leaver they're going to suffer so much more than a anyone middle income/ secured job regardless of the way they voted.

David Cameron fudged together the referendum to save his position in the Conservative party. Despite being a long term soft Eurosceptic, he believed he was so convincing he could swing the vote the way he needed it to continue in power.

Boris Johnson, looking to take power from DC, jumped on the Brexit bandwagon and because he had no worries about lying, didn't feel any need to put in the work of planning and is more immediately likeable with his 'loveable buffoon' act, convinced the majority of those who voted to choose Brexit.

DC got to walk away. BJ is now foreign secretary. Not sure what world you live in OP, if you can look at the current situation and think people are getting what they deserve?

How utterly ridiculous!! This is the most pathetic thing I've read today!!

"We deserve what we get"

I just can't understand that viewpoint at all. A small majority of the electorate voted for Brexit, and it's come to light that many, many of those voters were ignorant or unaware of the potential economic consequences, or that they were going to be the ones bearing the brunt of them.

You could argue that ignorance deserves punishment, I suppose. But if you go around in life checking the life decisions of anyone who finds themselves fall on hard times before you decide whether they're worthy of your sympathy you're going to find yourself sounding more and more like those who you probably stand opposite of, politically.

of course we dont deserve it, but its going to happen anyway. Its just a shame it cant only hit the brexiters who gambled with everyone elses futures

Jeez I thought this was going to be that we deserved a recession because our recovery from 2008 had been built on massive rise in personal debt and overinflated house prices. I was ready to concede that you had an unfortunate but justifiable point.
But no, you want to see the whole country go to shit to punish people for voting - well at least you'll be happy with your schadenfreude when loads of us are losing our jobs and houses.

Here have a breakfast ...

I voted remain as well but actually I think the result of our vote is just going to be a tiny part of the turbulent economic waters that we are experiencing and will experience for the next few years at least.

There are features of remaining in the EU that could bring recession too and there are features of leaving that could help us weather other financial problems. It is a sliding door that we are never going to fully see the other side of.

Still waiting for the op to come back with a sensible point as to why she thinks people deserve to be punished and what exactly she is thinking will happen to the average jo.

Sunderland would be an obvious context to consider today ....

The poor are already living the life of what a recession would be like so we won't notice .