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to still be cross about the outcome of the EU referendum?

893 replies

mynamesnotsam · 24/01/2017 21:38

I'm still so angry and can't forgive those who voted to leave. After the result there was much talk of how the two sides must put aside their differences but I don't feel there has been any attempt to try to appease the 48.1% of people who voted to stay. I also want to rip the head off any one who says it's the will of the people. They should be legally obligated to say it's the will of 51.9 % of the people who voted. If the vote had gone the other way you can bet that UKIP would still be making a huge fuss about it but remainers are expected to "just get over it"!

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Ruralretreating · 25/01/2017 00:39

Glitteratzi things have happened - the pound's value has fallen, companies have announced moves of some jobs at least abroad, costs are being incurred and cross-border work has slowed for some companies. And we haven't even left yet.

sonlypuppyfat · 25/01/2017 00:39

When I get told, well you could go anywhere in Europe you wanted to and settle, well I don't. I'm more than proud I voted to leave and the quicker the better

ChasedByBees · 25/01/2017 00:41

Perhaps all the doom and gloom is because pretty much every expert said this would be economically disastrous for the UK.

But of course, as Michael Gove said, people in this country have had enough of experts.

So yes. Let's all just hope for the best shall we?

FuckOffDailyMailQuitQuotingMN · 25/01/2017 00:41

For those that think they are in the worst position already on what they have to lose the answer is a lot. Things can get significantly worse. Significantly

This is what kills me, chasedbybees it pains me no end. I don't want to live with more poverty and that is what is already happening. I feel so sad about that.

ChasedByBees · 25/01/2017 00:45

Me too FODM. I can't believe the government reduced something so complex to a simple binary choice. It was almost impossible for people to appreciate all the unintended consequences even with serious research. It was so so irresponsible.

Ruralretreating · 25/01/2017 00:46

Fuckoff yes it's really shit. Not just for us but the people DH employs and the small businesses that we use for domestic help etc as we've already not renewed contracts with some.

FuckOffDailyMailQuitQuotingMN · 25/01/2017 00:48

It was horrific what they did. The Bastards. The breathtaking arrogance to play fast and lose with the future of a country. The mind boggles how they face themselves on a daily basis.

notangelinajolie · 25/01/2017 00:59

In answer to the OP I'm not cross at all. Were we ever really in?

glitterazi · 25/01/2017 01:05

Sorry to butt in your declaring it as shit, calling them bastards, feeling sad, paining you no end party, but the vote has HAPPENED.
People voted, it hasn't gone your way. What inside you makes you think your way of thinking is the only way everyone must think?
People are entitled to different views.Are you seriously wanting a world where no-one can think for themselves? Have to be told what to do, what to think?

A4Document · 25/01/2017 01:07

It does seem to make a few people angry but try and imagine how hard it was for leavers who have had years of sucking up their anger watching the UK cede more and more power to the corrupt protectionist EU.

Thank you, yes that is how it feels.

What about those who didn't want to be forced into so-called EU citizenship (a trading bloc, supposedly with no plans to become a superstate, decides the populations of all member states are now its own "citizens"? Hmm) and did not see it as an overall benefit? You can't even get rid of it without also revoking your own UK citizenship.

I've been very surprised how many remainers believed they were voting for the "status quo". There is no status quo in the EU any more than there is in the UK. The EU has its own agenda, as set and substantially funded in the mid 20th century by the developing CIA, and it still isn't deviating from it. It's unreformable, relentless, and the future isn't pretty IMHO.

Remaining in the EU could well easily mean the end of the UK in the next couple of generations as Europa the superstate forms. All very well having an "opt out" from ever-closer union, but it only takes one future PM to choose not to implement that, and the UK is effectively over.

Far more positively, once we are out, the future of the UK is what all of us, the 100 per cent, make it. A fresh start, a clean Brexit, is exciting, not worrying.

FuckOffDailyMailQuitQuotingMN · 25/01/2017 01:10

Er, where did I ever say that anyone wasn't entitled to their opinion? I can speak my opinion because we are in a democracy not a totalitarian regime. I can protest against the vote and those who put this to the public until my dying breath because we live in a democracy. I never have to get over it because we live in a democracy. That's how democracy works!

FuckOffDailyMailQuitQuotingMN · 25/01/2017 01:15

By the "bastards" I wasn't referring to the leave voters! But to Cameron et al.

I don't call remain voters names. Ever. I am not angry at voters but at the leaders who put us in this position.

funnyandwittyusername · 25/01/2017 01:34

Itsawonderfullworld- all your talk of being a higher rate tax payer clearly shows you were earning a very decent wage. Please don't make out you were doing us poor lowly Brits a favour just by being here. You weren't paying tax and employing people out of the goodness of your heart.

When working class people were losing their jobs/seeing pay undermined because of the EU we were told to suck it up. Now the middle classes are feeling the economic kick in the tits the world is ending. Welcome to the club :)

FuckOffDailyMailQuitQuotingMN · 25/01/2017 01:48

Now the middle classes are feeling the economic kick in the tits the world is ending.

I get the impression that itsawonderful is not leaving because of economic reasons but on principle?

Er - I don't think the advanced rate tax payers (if that's who you mean by MC) are feeling any pain.

Inflation and devalued currency hit the poor the hardest.

Pluto30 · 25/01/2017 01:58

I also want to rip the head off any one who says it's the will of the people. They should be legally obligated to say it's the will of 51.9 % of the people who voted.

Oh, for God's sake.

funnyandwittyusername · 25/01/2017 02:01

Nope second paragraph was nothing to do with higher rate tax payers. I'm sure they'll be fine, sitting in their big houses, making decisions as to what country to bestow their greatness onto next

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 25/01/2017 02:10

Yabu. Don't regret my vote, and would vote Leave again.

Pluto30 · 25/01/2017 02:15

The only saving grace is most of the morons who voted out are either unemployed or about to become so

17 million unemployed people? Yep, sounds about right... Hmm

They/you can bleat that all you like but as an EU citizen here for 20+ years, raising British kids, employing Brits in my business: you voted for racism, plain and simple. It may be uncomfortable to hear but it's the truth. Own it and you'll look less pathetic.

What an absolute crock of shit. Pull your head in.

PamplemousseRouge · 25/01/2017 02:47

YANBU I completely agree. I'm still hugely frustrated about the result. It definitely feels to me as if we rushed into the referendum and voting. I feel more upset about it the more time passes, which is strange, as normally you feel better about things as time goes on.

PolarBearGoingSomewhere · 25/01/2017 07:12

I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed.

Not really, I'm furious. And disappointed. And worried.

Creampastry · 25/01/2017 07:14

There are some really ignorant comments on here ..... leavers are racist, leavers are thick. Go do one.

wowfudge · 25/01/2017 07:25

Xenophobia played a big part in the leave campaign and for some of those who voted leave was the main driver. I found that shocking in this day and age in the run up to the referendum. I am not a religious person, but I have to agree with the Pope that we need to guard against populism.

wowfudge · 25/01/2017 07:25

Even more shocking given the referendum outcome.

RubyWinterstorm · 25/01/2017 07:27

I thought I got over it, but I am currently applying for Permanent Residence (EU citizen, 20 years in the UK, married to a Brit, children English... yet with the new tough laws on immigration I may not be allowed to stay Confused, so it's a real worry and a nightmare Sad) I am really stressed about it.

Pluto30 · 25/01/2017 07:36

but I have to agree with the Pope that we need to guard against populism

Says the man protecting child sex abusers. Hmm

I'd take what the Pope says with less than a grain of salt, if I were you.