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AIBU?

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Aibu MNHQ does not want us to debate brexit on the main boards

381 replies

Quietrebel · 26/07/2018 10:25

Just that.

Someone shared a link to the Independent's Final Say petition. The most important debate this nation can have right now is on the final brexit deal. This was promptly buried in the 'petitions' section.
This isn't any old petition. It concerns all mums/ citizens. If someone wants to share it with the wider MN community, they should be able to.

OP posts:
GerdaLovesLili · 26/07/2018 17:10

“why is Brexit apparently banned?”
It clearly isn't. There's a whole echo chamber topic devoted to it.

surferjet · 26/07/2018 17:19

Seasawride
You’d have thought they would have that attitude, but they haven’t. They talk like 25 year olds with limited life experience, & I’d totally understand their hysteria if they were that age, but the majority of remainers on the Brexit board are in their 50’s & 60’s Confused

Quietrebel · 26/07/2018 18:29

No one is being hysterical, unless you consider pointing to facts hysterical.
The posters you refer to here do their research and are obviously very competent people. They can be harsh critics -and that's fair enough. They don't deserve such contempt.

OP posts:
BoneyBackJefferson · 26/07/2018 19:13

Quietrebel
No one is being hysterical, unless you consider pointing to facts hysterical.

What facts? they are posting opinions and opinions of other people

The posters you refer to here do their research and are obviously very competent people.

Shame that they often don't give the same respect to others

They can be harsh critics -and that's fair enough.

Meaning that you are happy for them to call other with different views and opinions names?

They don't deserve such contempt.

anybody that threats other people with contempt get that right back.

Seasawride · 26/07/2018 19:21

Blimey Surferjet really?

Op you havnt got any facts yet we havnt actually left.

So far all the doomsday prophets have been wrong. The economy is strong and unemployment the lowest I remember in my 50 years.

We did t need any emergency budget. The Tories were pro Brexit, labour front bench were always pro Brexit for years but won’t adnit it and so it’s only the Lib Dem’s and the greens left and forgive me but really seriously!

Yes personally I voted remain but it’s done. It will be fine. All this hot ‘it’s a shit show and rioting on the streetsbollocks is frankly tiresome.

No one is being contemptuous and you have an opinion but don’t pretend you have facts as you don’t. The facts so far are the county hasn’t imploded.

Seasawride · 26/07/2018 19:22

borntobequiet

Even my brother the scientist found it excruciating boring Grin

Doobigetta · 26/07/2018 19:28

Is this petition the same as the People's Vote one? If not, will you please get behind that instead, as it is backed by all of the main pro-Remain organisations? (Britain for Europe, the European Movement, Open Britain, Best for Britain...) a united focus will achieve far more.

LoveInTokyo · 26/07/2018 19:57

“We’ll be fine”?

You obviously have no idea how unprepared we are.

Confused
TillllllThen · 26/07/2018 20:21

I'm so sick of Remoaners using MN to proselytize their unpleasant, and intolerant giberish, it would make my day if MN stuck the subject somewhere else.

Seasawride · 26/07/2018 20:21

Lovelyn

And you do obviousiy. Wink

My dh works in Westminster as a contractor. You are right the civil servants are pretty unprepared but thankfully contractors are ready. They will cost the country many millions as they have done for years doing the jobs the public sector civil servants don’t do as schools have broken up so it’s holidsy season, hours are rigidly stuck to and people go off with stress st the first sign of hard work.

Just like the MPs really.

The country isn’t on the verge of WW3 you do realise they don’t you? It’s basically re negotiating trade deals.

Don’t panic as Jones would say.

LoveInTokyo · 26/07/2018 20:22

And I’m sick of being branded a “remoaner” by people who have no argument and no solution to the myriad problems they have created, but hey ho.

LoveInTokyo · 26/07/2018 20:23

“And you do obviously.”

Yes.

More so than the average Joe, anyway.

Seasawride · 26/07/2018 20:27

Yes there are and will be problems and then there are and will be solutions as that’s how life works.

Honestly the hysteria is utterly tiresome. And I voted remain.

Seriously the hysteria just makes people turn off because it’s so childish. There won’t be rioting food shortages, people dying or planes falling.

Get s bloody grip. It’s a trade deal

Seasawride · 26/07/2018 20:31

If you do lovelyn you will then understand my other post.

Brexit is brilliant for lawyers and contractors. The rest of us will be generally unaffected after 18 months to 2 years on.

May and Corbyn will be history and my prediction is Grant Shapps ( may have misspelled his sir name) will be PM. He’s very up and coming You heard it here first Grin

LoveInTokyo · 26/07/2018 20:31

If we crash out without a deal then there probably will be food shortages and planes won’t be taking off. No skin off my nose since I got the hell out of the UK a year ago.

Seasawride · 26/07/2018 20:40

lovekyn

Respectfully you are incorrect. Honestly you are listening to the hysteria brigade just like the same crap after millennium. Nothing happened.

LoveInTokyo · 26/07/2018 20:47

Respectfully, what are your credentials on this subject? I have extensive academic knowledge on the workings of the EU and professional experience working for the government in a related role.

Shortstuff08 · 26/07/2018 20:49

And yet again another thread ends up with the same debate, that clogged all the boards up before brexit had it's own section

BoneyBackJefferson · 26/07/2018 21:03

Shortstuff08
And yet again another thread ends up with the same debate, that clogged all the boards up before brexit had it's own section

yup.

BoneyBackJefferson · 26/07/2018 21:05

LoveInTokyo
I have extensive academic knowledge on the workings of the EU and professional experience working for the government in a related role.

I have no reason to disbelieve you but on here you are just a person behind a screen.

LoveInTokyo · 26/07/2018 21:07

Well, I wouldn’t presume to tell a person on a screen they were incorrect unless they were talking actual bollocks (which I’m not), just in case it turned out that they actually knew more on the subject than I did.

MissSusanSays · 26/07/2018 21:13

Seasawride

Nothing happened at the Millenium because teams of people all over the world worked hard to make it ok. Companies spent millions to rectify issues before they happened. It is completely different.

Mainly because this time companies are spending millions to save themselves but not necessarily the population of the U.K. only if it suits them.

BoneyBackJefferson · 26/07/2018 21:13

LoveInTokyo

No one knows anything, that is the point. Its all supposition.

MissSusanSays · 26/07/2018 21:15

Here is some info on that.

thenextweb.com/dd/2017/10/26/developers-wish-people-remember-big-deal-y2k-bug/

LoveInTokyo · 26/07/2018 21:23

Lots of people know lots of things - particularly about the consequences of leaving with no deal.

But no one is listening because we’re all sick of experts, apparently.

Hmm