So much negativity about brexit....

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Is anyone looking forward to it? Did anyone who vote leave happy they voted it? Or regretful?

perry - I’m sorry

OP please do come back and tell us what we should be looking forward to!

Did my original post say i was looking forward to it or in fact that i voted leave ? No it didnt. I was just interested if there was ANYONE positive about it.

I'm also curious to know what I should be looking forward to. Please do tell us, OP.

Sorry, cross-posted. To answer your question, no, I don't think many people are looking forward to it. Why would anyone look forward to the economy tanking?!

But what will we do now we can't blame the EU for not letting us do things that we could but didn't bother to do? Who can we blame now?
We'll blame the EU for being all mean and not recognising our superiority and giving us everything we want at their own detriment. Oh and immigrants, we'll continue blaming them for every single thing wrong in the world.

Oh I’m sure leavers will still try and blame the EU for everything that goes wrong

Its OK for the older kids but my youngest has been here since she was a toddler. She doesn't know any different. We'll be OK.

Perry I'm so cross on your behalf, and families like yours. I'm still hopeful we can avoid this disaster. If only the Labour Party would provide an effective opposition.

I don't think many people are looking forward to it.
Actually I think lots of people are looking forward to it. Didn't 200,000+ just sign a petition saying they wanted 'no deal'. I spoke to someone at a Leave means Leave street stall the other day who said "we should just walk away from the table saying we're not going to give them a deal, then watch, they'd soon come running to us". Loads and loads of people think like this and I think we are deluded if we think they'll be reflecting on their vote after they see the damage of Brexit, they'll blame everything EXCEPT Brexit. Look around now, look at how much damage Brexit has already done (and we haven't seen anything yet) to the country, and opinion polls have hardly changed. I fear if we have another referendum it will also coincide with a migration crisis, but this time across the Channel, and the voters will be too stupid to realise that this is nothing to do with our EU membership and think voting Leave will stop this.

And as for what I'm looking forward to, when the racists see they've shot themselves in the foot by replacing immigration from white Europeans Christians (who they hate) with brown Asian Muslims (who they really, really hate). Cant wait for that.

I did actually genuinely get through to a leaver by pointing out we were probably going to be getting more immigrants, and browner more islamic ones. They were horrified.

Worth looking at the Government technical notices (published back in August) to see what a massive, all encompassing, expensive and timewasting clusterfuck a no deal would be:
www.gov.uk/government/collections/how-to-prepare-if-the-uk-leaves-the-eu-with-no-deal

@PerryPerryThePlatypus
I'm sorry, I am so ashamed of my country. Good luck with you new life, I hope things work out well for you.

KennDodd That's a good point! There does seem to be an element of society who are happy to watch everything crash and burn.

I'd enjoy the schadenfreude if it wasn't for the negative effects on so many people who didn't ask for it.

I'm looking forward to my employer having to lay off lots of staff as a large slice of our income removed.

Yes, I am - and sick of waiting. Just want it all done and dusted now.

Only fuxkwits* are looking forward to it at this point. They'll probably have a dickhead street party of massive dickheads.

*and disaster capitalists.

Perry, I'm so sorry, I'm also so ashamed and I wish I could leave too.

Done and dusted. Ha! This is going to consume everything for the next few decades. It won't be done and dusted before I'm dead.

What exactly are you looking forward to SilverySurfer? What benefits do you anticipate it bringing?

I'm looking forward to listening to Leave supporters walking around saying "see everything's fine" as things slowly deteriorate after the 29th March.

Chlorinated chicken sounds delicious and will go down we with all the mumsnet germphobes (well they bleach everything else).

Also looking forward to the economy recovering in 2030.

"Oh and immigrants, we'll continue blaming them for every single thing wrong in the world."

As well as the disabled and poor people, who are having too many children.

SilverySurfer, you're asked on every thread to tell us why it's a good thing, so we aren't all doom and gloom.

Yet you don't, why?

Come on SilverySurfer. Tell us what the benefits will be.

I am trying to find text of Gove's speech today (to NFU). About how Brexit offers a 'world of opportunity" to farmers. The early summaries seem to say that Brexit will mean more pressure on farmers to compete internationally, so that will make UK farmers invest in more high tech for agricultural production. Doesn't high tech tend to mean job losses? Assuming British farmers can afford to invest and wouldn't prefer to just retire.

Just want it all done and dusted now.

You are deluded if you think this will be over on the 29th March. Even if we have the hardest possible crash out Brexit (which huge numbers want) beside the consequences (that will run for decades) all the anti Brexit networks are set up, they'll just become rejoin groups. 70%+ of our young people don't want Brexit, these rejoin groups will gain real political power, especially when they see what has been done to the country. Crash out Brexit will be the death of the Tories (so, some good news) politics will change.

As well as the disabled and poor people

Yes good point. The poor are already being blamed for delivering the Brexit vote, while the very well heeled home country pensioners on fat pensions who voted overwhelmingly for Brexit are ignored.

Living in Ireland I am not looking forward for us having to ask the EU for emergency help.
Unlike Britain, however, we have someone to ask for emergency help in case of no-deal though. Every cloud, silver lining ....

"They placed a decision in the hands of ignorant people who didn't and never had full scope of what being in the EU means."

We wasn't allowed to name a ship. Which is why we didn't have the Queen launching Boaty-Mcboat-face.

But the future of our Country and Children, yea, we'll stand by what the public want.