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UK economy slows to 0.3% and inflation is at highest level for 3 years - brexiters are you still happy?

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brexitstolemyfuture · 28/04/2017 10:34

www.google.co.uk/amp/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/39743129

Or regret your choice? Brexit the gift that keeps on giving :(

OP posts:
KellysZeros · 28/04/2017 11:58

Sorry Sapphire, that should have been to JaneEyre

KellysZeros · 28/04/2017 11:59

Wasonthelist, whoosh!

TheJammyDodger · 28/04/2017 12:01

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Pinkandwhiteblossoms · 28/04/2017 12:02

I have foreign friends too.

Who voted to leave!

makeourfuture · 28/04/2017 12:06

I think bigotry played a strong part in the leave movement.

chocorabbit · 28/04/2017 12:13

I have lost count of the times I have heard people saying "house prices will go down once all immigrants go back home". Or that they will get more jobs. And then had to work 7 days a week to send more money back "home".

No matter how many people tell us that they had other reasons besides immigration we cannot deny that unfortunately too many people read the DM and believe everything spouted about immigrants (even after the referendum), people on benefits, all the nonsense about the £350m going to the NHS, but won't come here and admit it.

CopperRose · 28/04/2017 12:15

I think bigotry played a strong part in the leave movement.

I think bigotry has played/is playing a strong part in the 'anti-Brexiter' Remainer narrative.

JustAKitten · 28/04/2017 12:17

Just go onto Leave.EU Facebook page if you want to see bigotry and racism

wasonthelist · 28/04/2017 12:19

I have lost count of the times I have heard people saying "house prices will go down once all immigrants go back home". Or that they will get more jobs.
Where are you hearing say these things?

chocorabbit · 28/04/2017 12:24

wasonthelist
Locally, in our borough. Many people can't afford to buy properties or rent anymore with multiple families forced to have to share properties. Many of them are immigrants themselves which makes it even weirder Confused

JustAKitten · 28/04/2017 12:24

It's because the tories make the working class fight each other rather than then realising it's the elites causing these issues.

wasonthelist · 28/04/2017 12:27

Thank you chocorabit that is interesting.

LordRothermereBlackshirtCunt · 28/04/2017 12:35

Just go onto Leave.EU Facebook page if you want to see bigotry and racism

Well, quite. The suggestion that these people wanted to reduce EU immigration because it's unfair to brown and black people is, frankly, laughable.

CopperRose · 28/04/2017 12:36

Just go onto Leave.EU Facebook page if you want to see bigotry and racism

Just look on any SM (including MN) if you want to see bigotry in the form of ageism, classism, economic & educational superiority, and completely unfounded sweeping generalisations of racism & xenophobia against a grouping of people.

JustAKitten · 28/04/2017 12:38

Copper it's not bigotry to point out most people aren't educated on the matter and to pretend otherwise is ignorant

CopperRose · 28/04/2017 12:38

It's because the tories make the working class fight each other rather than then realising it's the elites causing these issues.

The tories are to blame for the blatant bigotry & sneering superiority displayed by a vocal minority of Remain voters toward Leave voters?
How?
Confused

JustAKitten · 28/04/2017 12:39

Rotheram I had a lovely string of messages insulting me and DP racially because he's Indian from someone from a Brexit support page.

But nah they're all trying to make it fairer for all races Hmm

JustAKitten · 28/04/2017 12:40

Copper is being obtuse again, shocking.

Dragongirl10 · 28/04/2017 12:40

Op here is the issue, your name clearly defines your attitude, so why ask others for their view when you clearly don't want to hear it?
is it just to argue or throw insults to those who voted leave?

we are all tired of the mudslinging and as a leave voter who has no regrets, l am tired of the insults.

I assume we all voted for the best way forward as we each saw it, only a decade will tell us if this is the right route...end of.

Please stop trying to pick fights

BlurryFace · 28/04/2017 12:43

It strikes me that as easy as it is to say "brexiters are racist" it is just as easy to say "remainers are classist/ageist", as the internet has fucking exploded with vitriol along the lines of old, uneducated, stupid, shouldn't be allowed to vote etc etc. As someone with no formal qualifications it's always nice to be reminded what certain people think of me.

And I didn't vote BTW, Channel Islander here.

CopperRose · 28/04/2017 12:44

Copper it's not bigotry to point out most people aren't educated on the matter and to pretend otherwise is ignorant

No, that's not bigotry.

However, sweeping statements re Leave voters is bigotry - including the assertion that 'Leave voters are thick/uneducated'.
I am neither - I voted Leave.

Example below of misinformed & inaccurate bigotry wrt Leave voters (your words):

Of course they're happy - as long as anyone who's not English feels unwelcome they've succeeded.

Biker47 · 28/04/2017 12:45

Logically, if there is a reduction in immigration to a country or area when compared with historical averages, or alot of people currently residing in one country or area; leave, the need for housing will reduce; as by sheer numbers wise there are now less people in the area or less people coming to the area, and because of that change, there can theoretically be an over supply of housing with less people to occupy it, prices can come down to entice people to those properties if the change in population has an affect, so whoever said that isn't wrong strictly speaking, but even I can see that something like that wouldn't happen overnight, and would be an ever so miniscule change over a long period of time, £1 million houses in London aren't suddenly going to drop to £200k because Vlad and his pals have went back to Poland. But something to remember, reduction in immigration and end of free movemenet was never guaranteed anyways but I still voted leave.

And for what it's worth, anyone can rent a bus and vinyl wrap slogans onto the side of it, doesn't make them true or binding, especially when coming from a personal interest group, which what both leave and remain were.

JustAKitten · 28/04/2017 12:46

Copper perhaps I was unfair, but as I said, by siding with racist arseholes leave voters decided that racism was an acceptable price to pay.

CopperRose · 28/04/2017 12:46

Copper is being obtuse again, shocking.

Confused How?

By having a different viewpoint to you?

JustAKitten · 28/04/2017 12:47

Copper you knew exactly what I was referring to and deliberately ignored it.

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