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That Britain should rethink BREXIT

652 replies

WallisofWindsor · 06/12/2017 12:14

David Davis admitting that the impact of Brexit will be equal to the credit crunch should surely make the country revisit the decision.
Why put your country through such a difficult period?

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Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 08/12/2017 21:13
Grin
Viviennemary · 08/12/2017 22:13

I think it could be halted if this Government fell. But even then perhaps not. I don't think it's very likely but certainly not impossible. I wonder what the odds are at the Bookmakers. I voted Brexit and I didn't think it would be plain sailing. Knowing what the EU are like.

abilockhart · 08/12/2017 22:34

Yeah, yeah, all the EU's fault....blah, blah, blah.....

Nothing to do with having a lazy and incompetent government here. Completely blameless, then.

MB625222 · 08/12/2017 22:42

I have actually forgotten what the intentions of it are now it's been that long since the vote. just all seems like a hell of a lot of cost!

GoingIn · 08/12/2017 23:00

I think it will be brexit in name only. Keep everything as is, regardless of costs but at least they can say to brexiters that they respected 'the will of the people'. Except of course nobody still knows what exactly that was.

JacquesHammer · 09/12/2017 07:23

Knowing what the EU are like

Nothing to do with the incompetence of the British government at all then. Are people really so blinkered?

curryforbreakfast · 09/12/2017 10:34

But seriously, if it isn't true why the heck are they negotiating at all? UK could have just said Sayonara

Is that a serious question? They could have said bye and then what? How do you work your borders? How do you deal with EU citizens living in the UK and vice versa?How do you deal with trade and customs and all of the myriad of laws entangled between the EU and the UK?
There is a lot of extrication and the need for a new way of living as neighbouring countries. you can't imagine it is possible to leave a relationship of 40plus years without very long and detailed negotiations?

TheElementsSong · 09/12/2017 10:36

Are people really so blinkered?

Um, what does the evidence tell you? Grin

DrivenToDespair · 09/12/2017 10:47

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frumpety · 09/12/2017 11:30

Youth unemployment in other EU countries ? Does no-one else here remember unemployment in the UK a couple or so decades ago ? When we were in the EU , I don't recall at the time anyone blaming the EU for it then , perhaps I am wrong .

JacquesHammer · 09/12/2017 11:38

Um, what does the evidence tell you?

Fair point. Just another level of incredulity Grin

frumpety · 09/12/2017 11:41

Sorry harking back to the good old days when people blamed the government when things went badly in this country Wink

GreenPurpleRed · 10/12/2017 11:35

And if it were to be stopped, what do you think the consequences would be?

I know you'd like to think the answer would be anarchy but I seriously doubt it.

The consequences might be the UK remains as wealthy as it currently is instead of slipping into a third world economy.

Peregrina · 10/12/2017 13:45

I know you'd like to think the answer would be anarchy but I seriously doubt it.

The racists of Leave.EU would be in full flood, as now, but other people i.e. most of the population would be more concerned about health care, schooling, housing, their jobs or whatever was the most pressing day to day issue.

surferjet · 10/12/2017 14:24

I know you'd like to think the answer would be anarchy but I seriously doubt it

So leave voters would just shrug their shoulders & forget about it? you really think that would happen?

LoL.

JacquesHammer · 10/12/2017 14:32

So leave voters would just shrug their shoulders & forget about it? you really think that would happen? LoL

Well I don't know, but Brexiteers certainly seem to tell Remainers a lot to "get over it" and "forget about it"

LOLZ Hmm

twofingerstoEverything · 10/12/2017 14:37

To be fair - there are several groups of thugs on the Leave side (EDL, BNP etc) who might spoil for a fight, and Farage is currently doing his best to wind people up, but the majority of the population are just not that politically engaged. Maybe surfer would like some sort of civil war, but if there was going to be an extreme reaction by one half of the population against the other, I think we would have seen something by now. After all, almost 50% of voters from the referendum have been roundly ignored and we haven't rioted so far. Maybe surfer is suggesting that Leavers are more pugnacious. If social media is any indicator, they seem to be very angry despite 'winning'.

surferjet · 10/12/2017 14:45

but the majority of the population are just not that politically engaged

Who do you think you’re talking to?
Why are remainers so pompous & arrogant?

How many people voted to leave the EU....do you even know the answer?
Many of these people had never voted before.

We’re leaving.
Get over it.

curryforbreakfast · 10/12/2017 14:48

But they aren't very engaged. Why are you arguing about that fact? If they never voted before they are the very definition of unengaged!

Why should we "get over it"? It's a terrible thing and its being handled very badly.

makeourfuture · 10/12/2017 14:54

We’re leaving. Get over it.

Perhaps.

Nothing stopping us from trying to reverse it. Or rejoining afterwords.

surferjet · 10/12/2017 15:02

Oh ok.
The peasants got a chance to scribble an X in a box with a pencil, having absolutely no idea what they were doing, now you lot take over because we should never have been let out of our cage?

& we fight for democracy all over the world.
What a joke you lot are.

March 2019 👊

ShizzleYoDrizzle · 10/12/2017 15:04

Joke's on you.

JacquesHammer · 10/12/2017 15:04

we fight for democracy

This is democracy. It doesn't end at a ballot box. Is that a tricky concept?

makeourfuture · 10/12/2017 15:05

That is the definition of democracy.

That referendum had no constitutional validity.

curryforbreakfast · 10/12/2017 15:05

You aren't even making sense surfer. You said many of them had never voted but you have a problem with them being described as not very politically engaged?
And people on both sides were being described as it!