To do a straw poll on whether you're happy with where Brexit is heading?

[Bearbehind]

This isn't about the whys and wherefores of how we got here but, since no one I speak to IRL is happy with the path Brexit is leading us down and I've just seen a poll in the Metro strongly in favour of abandoning Brexit it got me wondering how wide spread it is.

This isn't supposed to be an argument thread or even how you voted, just Are you happy heading towards a hard Brexit

Yes or No

A million times NO.
Just like Toast Demon up thread, as an ardent Remainer, I have never wished so much that I will be proven wrong.
But sadly everything the economic , scientific, social and political experts warned us over and over and over and over again would happen, is starting.
Just as they stuck their fingers in their ears then , it seems the Brexiters are continuing to do so now.

< phew > maybe now smallfox you'll stop talking to me.

No. Thoroughly depressed but totally unsurprised as so-called Project Fear becomes Project Reality. 😢

I don't get some of the above comments to surfer?

You'd think people on here run the country with all their so called expert knowledge! As for people losing sleep over it! Seriously?!

What can anyone say to such profound political discourse as that?!!

Fecking hell...

One worry is that if the scientists, the academics, the high earners, the foreign doctors and the European passport holders all leave, I'll just be left with a load of brexshitters.

Help.

maybe now smallfox you'll stop talking to me.

Believe me surfer no one engages with you because they enjoy it, we just can't get our heads around the fact your thought process really is so narrow.

You have now admitted you don't give a toss about the economy as long as you can keep the foreigners out so we're now all clear where you stand.

You're obviously very proud of being so ignorant about the repercussions of controlling immigration, I hope you're still as smug when you and those around you are directly adversely affected by your choice.

Well, to return to the original question: no, absolutely not. With nobs on.

No. I'm hoping that by March next year the reality will be plain for all to see and Brexit will be cancelled. They say a week is a long time in politics, so 5 months...

Are you for real Buttercups ?
If you are about to lose your job, your main source of income, which many are. Or are the victim of racial hatred, which is escalating, would you not lose sleep ??

Friends of mine are struggling as she works 8 hours a week and he is unable to get work due to brexit (has a few interviews at the moment)

I will tell her that there is no need to lose sleep over the situation

Cos buttercup says so

Buttercup

Some people do loose sleep over an uncertain future. You obviously don't. Can I join you in your sleep induced meadow?

No, no and thrice no.

Nah surfer, I think people like you should be challenged at all times. Because your views are unacceptable.

Back to the question

Latest scores

165 no
20 yes

And the offerings from the Leavers on here haven't exactly helped convince the rest of us have they?

surfer hopefully that's the end of your argument here.i am ashamed that in my country xenophobia got so much acceptance and people like are able to creep out of their dark closets to haunt us and our kids.
buttercup two major projects where I was targeting my next steps to be are going bust.no one knows what to do except to stop Brexit.so yes I am loosing sleep on it.so is DH.our business plans for future are screwed so thoroughly we won't recover I think.so thanks for the tip.i will screenshot your comment and use it for meditation.

I dunno, Bear. I never really understood the whole thing about The Thing, before. I'm not saying I'm, like, totally convinced, but, you know. It is a thing.

Very true doog. I did a lot of research pre-referendum but I wasn't aware of the thing. I'm not 100% sure of the thing either, but I feel I didn't research properly

now that project fear has become project fact, I wonder how long Brexit has left. Leave is hemmorhaging support by the day. Even the Daily Mail is struggling to cover over the chasm sized cracks now. The Tory party is in meltdown and about to split in half. I can't see them lasting out the year let alone reaching March

Theresa May, grow a backbone, go down in history as a great prime minister and end this madness NOW

buttercup I don't belong to the metropolitan elite/establishment/looney left etc that you were trying to flip your finger to either.i worked extremely hard to be where I am.my anger is that my kids won't have the same chances for them anymore.and because some arses thoughts they are going to buy potatoes from the same people who have been selling them dirt since ages now.

As for people losing sleep over it! Seriously?!

Yes, seriously. We live in another EU country. Will my husband keep his job for which EU citizenship was a mandatory requirement? Will we still get access to the nation health service here? If not, I'm fucked seeing as I now have a life long disability. Will we be allowed to stay or will we lose our homes? What about our accrued pension rights? Will my children have to start paying international fees for their studies? In which case that's the end of their education. Will I still be able to use my driving licence? And so on and so on.

Damn bloody right I'm losing sleep over it. I'm worried sick.

A definite no here. I voted Remain and am not a Tory voter but initially I thought that at least Theresa May was a shrewd character who was going to approach this in a reasoned fashion. However I am increasingly terrified that she is driving us over a cliff edge from which the country may never recover.

surfer one more incident I have seen yesterday.an acquaintance was told in no uncertain terms that (since they were only second/third generation immigrant)they are not purely English because you must have at least ten generations after immigration to actually be called "pure English". . This kind of xenophobia was normalised because of suchLeave voters feeling bold after the results.what have you guys done to this country?i have no personal animosity for anyone on here but I definitely hope that at least my economic and emotional loss be considered human?

valentine I've had that crap too. DH's family on both sides go all the way back to the 1600s at least before the trail was lost, as does my DFs. But my DM is Irish so my DC and I aren't proper British. Ironically my DM is also not proper Irish as her MGF was Scottish, so even my Irish family has British roots.

And if I don't get that I get 'oh you Irish are ok, its the other europeans we don't like'

Then I get told to suck it up, this is how it will be from now on. Wonderful. Not.

No. Not at all happy. The government are apparently unable to say how it's going to happen or what the implications will be.

It feels like the delay in invoking Article 50 is so they can hastily cobble something together as they seem to be woefully and negligently unprepared for it. Sterling has nosedived, which is ironic, given that the threat of not being able to use sterling was used so much in the Scots indy debate. At this point in time, the Euro is beginning to look quite attractive...

Buttercup... if you can keep your head when all around you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.. then you obviously haven't understood the severity of the situation