To ask how you feel about Article 50 being triggered tomorrow

[Ehsamy]

or at some point this month?

And I know there is a EU board tucked away somewhere but I'm interested in everyone's views.

TL;DR version: 'Last to leave turn out the lights', basically.

Turkeys voting for Xmas I suppose

It's so utterly depressing

The genius of the elite has always been to persuade the poor vote against their best interests

"I was speaking to a WW2 historian last week and he predicted the same. WW3 with Germany."

His prediction is his prediction. I predict that climate change will put all negotiations of leaving on the back burner.

Ha ha. Just realised that TM and MT have transposed initials! Revelation lol.

I just had a news alert saying it's not happening today..

I feel excited, nervous.....all at the same time. I know we are doing the right thing and I hope the politicians realise this is happening and get behind it - and do their jobs to get us the best deal they can.

That does not mean half in and half out of the EU ie single market and start to be positive about all the things Brexit will enable us to do.

Like what?

How parliamentarians didn't have the guts to vote against this is wrong. They have gone against their concience because they are all too scared to admit allowing the referendum was the biggest mistake ever. As far as I can see leavers voted on racist issues or they believed the economic lies they were told. No clue of the ramifications and what leave actually means.

Thefullmrexit what exactly will improve for those, already desolate communities who are having millions taken away from them, or those involved in collaborative scientific research etc etc?

I feel devastated. Don't care if that takes me "against the will of the people". I am ME and that is how I feel.

Follow siblings to get Irish passport. Sibling has immediate business need to get it sorted.
Hope we aren't screwed. Hope all the optimism pays off .not joining in celebration.

We're net contributors to the EU currently. We could still cover all the EU 'gives' us out of our own pockets and still have more to spend, surely?

Very unsettled and worried.

No one knows how the whole situation is going to pan out. The government didn't know when they decided, without any plans for the outcome, to hold that stupid referendum, a referendum based entirely on lies and misinformation that no one understood, and they still don't know. It's all being done on the hoof as far as I can see.

How could any good come of it?

I filled up my car this morning, when did petrol go up to £1.20 a litre? Admittedly I don't fill up often, but bloody hell.

Higher petrol means higher prices. The cost of living will soar. And those who seemed to think that 'getting our country back' whatever that means, would mean house prices would drop, dream on.

Poster up thread mentioned hell and handcarts. Pretty much sums it up I suspect.

Like the £350 million we're going to have for the NHS. Haha.

Not forgetting the cost of Brexit.

That's nice. They've already forgotten nearly half of us voted to Remain, then. Maybe I should have voted to leave after all.

Well yes, it's uncomfortable to hear. But who can blame them? The Govt is creating - freely and chaotically - a huge, expensive distraction for the EU, potentially undermining the stability of the whole Union. Their priority is to make sure that the Union is not further weakened in unstable times. Which it might be if the UK gets a great deal and other countries follow.

On top of which, EU residents in the UK are being treated appallingly and UK anti-foreigner rhetoric is widely reported.

Pigs - as far back as 2010, and higher according to this. Can't exactly blame that on the referendum

Probably has been high at various times Orange but I certainly haven't been paying that sort of price recently.

Orange we certainly won't have more to spend if we lose access to our main trading bloc.
It's statements like your that really worry me about how this is all going to play out.

I feel sick but I also just want them to bloody get on with it so I can replan my entire future. Everything is so uncertain at the moment and I can only hope that we end up EEA instead of EU because that will at least mean retention of feeedom of movement.

Pigs - Eh? Did you even look at the link? If you call 'various times' from 2011 through to and including 2015, then yeah, I suppose so 🤔

Thanks to the UK being such a welcoming country for members of my family (Irish heritage), the irony is that they can now obtain an Irish passport and get the hell out of Dodge if they want to.

But they don't want to. They love living in the UK, but as my cousins have said it's good to have the insurance policy of the green passport in case it all goes tits up. They will have the whole of the EU to choose from under free movement.

Toast, when we're roughly a 80% import/20% export, do you really think other countries won't want to SELL to us because we've left the EU?

Independent and Guardian are reporting a Downing Street statement this afternoon saying it won't be triggered this week.