AIBU to request a positive thread on Brexit?

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Everyone here (nearly) says it will be bad.
Let's hear some positives about our coming freedom from the EU!

@Freud2 you couldn't be more wrong when you say the EU is an :

unelected establishment

Do you think you are right and have just done no research?
Are you just repeating what other people say?
Are you genuinely this stupid?

@Freud2 Can you expand on that border thing? What do you imagine under taking control of our borders? Quite curious about it.

I need to pause while I pop out to vote for our Head of State, our second chamber and our judges..... hmmmmm .... for some reason I can't.

BadlyDrawerPerson not at all. I am all ears if you are able to tell me how we avoid a 24% increase on products we import? You will personally be responsibly for saving jobs if you can help here. My DH has only been in that particular food sector 30 years and has spent the last two years trying to figure it out (scratching his balls). If you have some ideas here. Please share, I am all ears. Infact I bet you £10 DH would join MN just to hear those ideas.

how we avoid a 24% increase on products we import?
Smuggle them in a rowing boat. A positive - more jobs for smugglers.

The biggest potential positive is the hope that it will revitalise the UK's manufacturing industry. If we can't buy things from abroad then we'll have to make them ourselves. It is an opportunity for the UK's entrepreneurs to step up. Nature abhors a vacuum but capitalism abhors a vacuum even more. Where a gap in the market is created people will find a way of filling it.

FaFoutis I have a pen and pad. Taking note here, taking note. Thank you

How the fuck will manufacturing get better if we've got no trade deals and imports and exports are going to be much more expensive and difficult not just with products but materials too?

The UK is now a services based economy. Weirdly people are fixated on goods though.

To all the brexit supporters because "there will be more skilled jobs", "there will be revitalisation of industry" etc.
Are you the ones who are trained NHS staff waiting to jump in? Experienced lecturers? Or entrepreneurs with the product knowledge and ready to use your money to start manufacturing? Or do you own fields and industrial greenhouses ready to start growing?

Or is it a case of "Well, someone else will surely do it"?

I've got one! I've got a positive!

We won't have to endure the shame of this rabble representing us in the Grown Ups parliament in Brussels:

www.euractiv.com/section/uk-europe/news/ukip-leadership-frontrunner-hospitalised-after-european-parliament-fight/

Free market! Wool!

Just kidding. British are screwed regardless. Politicians hopeless. Electorate very entitled and completely unrealistic. Might be able to get some decent food for a reasonable price though. European imports aren’t exactly the best quality. Bring on more imports from warm countries. Although Spanish bluesrrries are pretty good...

When companies move abroad and people lose their jobs they will then have the time to walk their children to school - fitter, healthier kids and no parking wars at the school gates!
Less food at the supermarket means a nice speedy shop.

Positive (for the EU) lots of young healthy working age people are going back to their home countries, and some are taking their British spouses with them.

(We're thinking about it)

to all those posters mentioning unelected governments - now you know how Scotland feels!

Scotland has voted for a tory government 6 times in the last 68 years (1951, 55, 59) however Scotland has a tory government rule 38 years out of those 68 years

You wouldnt know the meaning of Unelected!

How bloody terrifying. Not one solid, factual positive. WTF did leavers vote for? Did they seriously not look further than mainstream media? I’m embarrassed to be British

WTF did leavers vote for

I'm firmly of the opinion that many, certainly enough to change the result, didn't have a fucking clue.

Infuriating.

The health of the average Britain actually improved under rationing.

Healthy people, less processed food, more walking cos we can't afford petrol.

This will save the NHS a fortune.

OftenHangry I agree with everything in your post.

Apparently there are loads of really solid, well-evidenced positives, but because the MN forum is so biased, every time a Leaver tries to type them out, their post just "poof" disappears and a laughing metropolitan liberal elite face takes over the browser window.

Leavers are 'savaged' with requests for evidence, links, proof or even a coherent argument.

This thread basically exists to rub Brexit in the face of the rest of us who are and will suffer. Thanks, OP.

From today's Daily Mash:
BRUSSELS Airport is to save everyone’s time by erecting a 40ft high illuminated sign reading ‘Fuck off, we’re keeping the backstop’.
The move follows excitable British discussions about how much support Theresa May would enjoy if she only did the thing she cannot do.
Senior MEP Guy Verhofstadt said: “We’ve been paying a man to stand at arrivals with this sign since February last year – actually three men, in eight-hour shifts – so at the very least we’re saving their wages.
“The idea is that May gets off her plane, stoked up with the false promises of lunatics, sees the sign, comes to her senses and flies home immediately.
“If this does not work we have roadside billboards on the route to the European Parliament with slogans including ‘You agreed to this deal’, ‘Why are you here?’ and ‘Don’t knock. We’re not in’.”
He added: “Or an entire continent could change its mind because of 45 angry British MPs. That seems likely.”

It’s going to be shit. I’m positive.

My dad is actually looking forward to Brexit. He said last week that he “can’t wait, it’ll be great”. He can’t articulate what he can’t wait for, but he currently runs a business that employs 60 people. He’s already planning on making at least 15 people redundant in April!! I just don’t understand what the hell he was thinking voting Leave. It’s totally counterintuitive, not least for his business!! 🤨