AIBU or are we all going to be trapped in the UK from next March?

[Clarissalarissa]

So, Ryanair and Thomas Cook are inserting clauses in their booking terms to say that if your flight abroad doesn't go ahead because of Brexit that's your problem. No doubt others will follow. If any deal is ever done, to allow planes to fly, it is bound to be a lot more expensive than it is now.

Is everyone planning many years of UK-only holidaying?

MilkTray. Times have changed. Why is that so hard to appreciate? Do you also remember not being able to take more than £50 out of the country pre 1979 because the government couldn't risk capital flight as the economy was so weak? Ah, good times. Can't wait.

YouGov were asking questions about how people take money abroad for their holidays the other day, which I found interesting.

oh

The word has changed massively with technology and travel

Its fine if you dont see that

@MelanieSmooter

This is going to be like the millennium bug isn’t it? Until next March, there will be cries of “IT’S THE APOCALYPSE, WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIIIIIIE.” Then we’ll wake up in 2025 and realise people really needed to get a fucking grip. I swear some remainers forget that there is a world beyond and outwith the blessed EU. Not everything outside it is the US/Third World.

Ba ha ha ha ha

Best post on here!

Cannot WAIT to leave the EU.

Best thing that ever happened to this country is the LEAVE VOTE!

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!

@scaryteacher

You are sounding hysterical, and frankly rather idiotic. I live in Brussels and spend much time, as does my husband at work, with members of other European nations. Brexit is regularly discussed, and many can see why the UK wants to leave. You may be happy with the drive to ever closer union and becoming part of a federated Europe, but I am not. I don't believe that one size fits all.

Also a great post. And I agree 100%.

@milktraylimebarrel

Oh for goodness' sake - how do you think people went on holiday before we were in the EU? We actually could travel by car, ship or plane to anywhere we fancied in Europe and I can't remember having to get a visa for anywhere, unless you fancied Communist Russia. This is all nonsense designed to frighten people, whipped up by the all-knowing remainers.

THIS too ^

I will be glad when we have all left the EU. So we can stop hearing all this scaremongering nonsense from certain people.

AND THE UK WAS PERFECTLY OK BEFORE WE JOINED THE EU!

So we will be ok now. Much better actually, when we are not in the grip of the EU.

Oh and what sabbatical said

Gosh there are some very angry people on here.

Of course it was a fucking different world.
You could buy a house without having to borrow 10 x income (you could do that in 1999 too but not now)
We have an entirely different economy - then we had manufacturing to export, now it's all finance and technologies (many financial institutions leaving the UK as a result of Brexit).

Ok - but why do you all ASSUME that everything will be worse or more difficult, and so what if you did have to get a visa for some of the more 'obscure' countries - if you have nothing to hide there would not be a problem. I can't imagine many people want to go to Latvia, Lithuania or Uzbekistan (or however you spell it) anyway!

@squarecorners

Michael O'Leary is a massive shitstirrer who would sell his granny if he thought there was an extra euro in it for him, so I can imagine that they've inserted themselves a nice little clause to effectively allow them to bin a load of flights, blame it on brexit and pocket the cash.

Yeah this too. ^

I'm sure we'll cope again!!

Of course we will but the logistics have to be sorted out. We can't just magic ourselves back in time. Has the government sorted it out? No, which is why the airlines have to warn people that there may be problems. They simply don't know whether the details will be sorted out in time.

I just remember the pre 1979 currency restrictions but that was before credit and debit cards, wasn't it?
In those days travellers cheques were the only alternative to cash, iirc, but I could be wrong.

And i agree with squarecorners

I agree with the O'Leary comments though, he's a dick.

Gosh there are some very angry people on here

Yeah i agree

Using lots of caps lock and stuff...

Nah 1974 wasn't a different world. Don't be a silly sausage. It was only 44 years ago FFS!

We're a year away now and there are no negotiations happening. Infrastructure can't be properly put in place until negotiations conclude and we find out legislative detail.

It's a huge clusterfuck.

Upshot is we are LEAVING the EU.

GET OVER IT

44 years in which the world has moved on massively.
Tell me how are economy and society are identity that of 1974. I'd love to know.

identity that identical to

The UK was known as the sick man of Europe before we joined the EU.

Funny. There's a name for people who persistently post inflammatory comment without backing up their arguments whilst dishing out insults and it's not Katie Hopkins 🤔

TalksTo Fabulous, thank you. Now I just have to learn how to cycle at an average 12 mph for 116 hours non stop.

Oh god, "we are leaving, get over it" has been wheeled out.

I was going to post the same, Bishop.

Oh ffs Agnes get some British fervour. Facts don't matter, rhetoric is all! 😜

I don’t get remainer logic. If the EU is prepared to behave in such a punitive fashion towards a country who wants to leave that it effectively suspends travel and trade entirely and leaves us all in a position where we’re stranded and eating grass, how can they claim that organisation is some sort of moral force for good that we want to be associated with.

It’s just not logical. If the EU was prepared to behave like that, it would just confirm to me that it was an entirely morally bankrupt and sinister organisation that the last thing we should want was membership of. It’s just not logical.