Meet the Other Phone. Only the apps you allow.

Meet the Other Phone.
Only the apps you allow.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To be heartened by the majority of comments on this article about leaving the EU?

200 replies

LetsGoAyo · 14/09/2018 05:14

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/no-deal-brexit-plans-revealed-13238820

So sick of people trying to talk this country down. Happy to see most people think this is pathetic scaremongering from bitter people that can’t get over that the vote didn’t go their way!

OP posts:
Rufustheyawningreindeer · 14/09/2018 12:51

dione

Yep

DioneTheDiabolist · 14/09/2018 12:59

Shit!Confused

Rufustheyawningreindeer · 14/09/2018 13:05

I know Grin

I usually pop in for a nose and then run back out again

HirplesWithHaggis · 14/09/2018 13:06

As a no deal Brexit will do huge damage to our economy people with be relieved and accept the Chequers Deal.

It doesn't matter if "people" accept Chequers deal. It doesn't matter if the Cabinet and the whole Parliament accepts it, or if we have a second EU referendum where the whole nation votes for it.

Because the EU have made it pretty clear that they won't accept it.

RockinHippy · 14/09/2018 13:09

Seriously, & you think that's a good thing Confused

Bitter remainders, seriously Confused

How about people with common sense who can actually understand statistics, trade, immigration etc etc & know Brexit was based on a pack of lies, are capable of seeing the wood for the trees & if it must happen, would love nothing better than a glimmer of hope in the car crash that is Brexit.

Realistic Remainers would be far more accurate

DioneTheDiabolist · 14/09/2018 13:11

I don't blame you Rufus. But while I can avoid the MN Brexit forum, I won't be able to avoid the RL shit storm that actual Brexit is going to rain down in my part of the UK.Sad

Imamouseduh · 14/09/2018 14:14

Brexiteer reads the Mirror.

Big surprise there.

Quietrebel · 14/09/2018 14:29

dione
Fair enough the brexit forum may not be for you however if you know the consequences, at least for you and your business, are grim, how and where do you voice your concerns?

butterflysugarbaby · 14/09/2018 14:30

Ahhhhh, the whingeing remoaners never fail to deliver all the comments that Brexiters are thick and dumb and uneducated and bigoted and stupid do they?! RIGHT on cue! Grin

Carry on !!! We brexiters don't give a fuck! @Iheartniles post on the top of page 3 is a classic post from a rude and obnoxious remoaner! He/she has a few fangirls on here though, so they'll be OK with their little chest all puffed out, all smug and chuffed with their new little fan base! Grin

Carry on. You are MOST entertaining! Grin

And yes i WILL get back to my daily mail.

butterflysugarbaby · 14/09/2018 14:30

Moan moan moan all you like remoaners.

We are still leaving the EU.

Shame. Grin

Quietrebel · 14/09/2018 14:34

Glad you're finding it entertaining.
Don't YOU moan when the going gets tough.

bellinisurge · 14/09/2018 14:35

@butterflysugarbaby - are you ready to sign the pledge not to get extra food in just in case the shelves are empty after Brexit? Even for a couple of days.
Or will we all be too euphoric to eat?

Imamouseduh · 14/09/2018 14:37

I have a feeling that the majority of you who are happy about Brexit will be the ones who feel the economic impacts the hardest. But carry on.

Quietrebel · 14/09/2018 14:37

Also- apart from maybe one post in seven pages, remainers are mostly polite. Harsh yes, but not insulting and demeaning like some leavers (looking at you butterfly)

Helmetbymidnight · 14/09/2018 14:40

I sometimes think that Brexit is a bit like Christmas Lunch. We always had it with aunt EU, but we hated the dry turkey, she treated us like idiots, and made us bring most of the food while dishing us up shitty portions. So, we decide to make our own dinner this year, and spend it at home.
Que remainers aunt EU telling us don't be silly, our oven might explode, we won't find a turkey as nice as hers, she won't give us a present this year (despite never having done so before) and all her bingo friends will laugh at us.

Grin

It must be awesome to have as little understanding of how things work as you.

Yes, dear, unravelling 40 years worth of agreements we made over virtually every aspect of our lives - trade, farming, fishing, travel, security, finance, Ireland, is just like cooking Christmas dinner.

And its cue.

bellinisurge · 14/09/2018 14:47

Turkeys voting for Christmas. Am I allowed to say that yet?

kalinkafoxtrot45 · 14/09/2018 14:53

Just gained my citizenship of the EU country where I live. Stuff Brexit. I just feel sorry for everyone who is going to be negatively affected by this shitshow.

Cobblersandhogwash · 14/09/2018 15:00

I'm starting to lol forward to Brexshit a bit now.

Because Leavers will choke on it.

And then the campaign to rejoin will begin in earnest.

Helmetbymidnight · 14/09/2018 15:04

Nah, most of the brexiteers won't understand what they are choking on.

It'll be our fault for 'not 'talking' the country up'.

10degreestostarboard · 14/09/2018 15:12

Cobblers

Hmm I think the eu is a little bit like alcohol. If it was invented as it is today and had never been heard of before, nobody would want to buy it.

I’m not worried about rejoining - we will never get a better deal than the one we had. So the public won’t got for it.

It’s a ‘scorched earth’ Brexit for us :)

marvellousnightforamooncup · 14/09/2018 15:24

Kalinka, will you marry me? I need a passport too.

RageAgainstTheTagine · 14/09/2018 15:51

Yes, dear, unravelling 40 years worth of agreements we made over virtually every aspect of our lives

Shall I knock up a new analogy using a knitting pattern??

Aunt EU insisted I use metric needles, and the wool was imported rather than the special English lambs wool I prefer, and when I offered to make tea for our knitting bee, she made me use a kettle with a EUROPEAN PLUG and I don't have a converter!

It was awful, and I decided to leave. I now knit things I like. Grin

HirplesWithHaggis · 14/09/2018 15:54

And then the campaign to rejoin will begin in earnest.

Won't post-Brexit Britain be too poor to rejoin?

buttermilkwaffles · 14/09/2018 15:56

Mark Carney is not "predicting" that house prices will fall by 30% in the event of a no deal Brexit - the Bank of England did stress tests on a range of situations (which is part of their job) and one of the scenarios was a fall in house prices of up to 30% in a worst case scenario and if the banks would be able to cope should this occur.

Suddenly this is reported (mis-reported) by the press yesterday as a new thing and as a prediction when it's old news and not a prediction.

Nov 2016: www.theguardian.com/business/2016/nov/27/bank-of-england-announce-stress-tests-uk-banks-fpc-fsr

August 2018:
"Banks were ready for house prices crashing by a third, interest rates soaring by more than 4 per cent and the economy going into recession – the worst case scenario."
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-no-deal-uk-prices-trade-mark-carney-bank-of-england-warning-a8475531.html

These stress test were also done long before the referendum by the way: April 2014 : www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-27202546

"Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said on Friday the central bank was not predicting big falls in house prices, despite having told banks last year to be prepared for falls of up to a third if there was economic turmoil after Brexit.

British media had reported late on Thursday that Carney had warned senior ministers earlier in the day that a chaotic Brexit could lead to house price falls of up to 35 percent over three years as well as spiraling interest rates.

Carney did not directly address the media reports in a question and answer session after a speech at the Irish central bank, but said bank ‘stress test’ scenarios in which house prices fell sharply did not amount to a prediction from the BoE.

“That’s not a prediction of what’s going to happen, but that’s what we need to do in order to make sure that ... the system is very clearly and transparently ... able to continue to lend,” he said.
www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-boe-houseprices/bank-of-england-not-predicting-big-house-price-fall-carney-idUSKCN1LU1IQ