AIBU to request a positive thread on Brexit?

[mobyduck]

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

@HesterShaw21... While sponging off this country on benefits.

Don't forget that part. That seems really important to many people for some reason

Jamie Oliver said he'd leave the UK if Brexit happened. Does that count?

This does make me feel a tiny bit better actually.

The only one I can think of is that the Tory party implodes and that the horrible hard right section of it fucks off on its own.

And that Corbyn is finally removed.

That's it. I think that's everything we have and they might not even happen.

Freud2, why do you think that the EU is an unelected establishment?

Oh...I thought of something. We might lower corporate tax rates to attract business to replace all the ones leaving which means I (self employed) will pay less tax.

I mean...I already earn a high salary, don't need the extra money and would rather it went to supporting our services but yay for me personally!

LOL No leaver is going to post on this thread because all the left wing rabid remainers on MN will just rant on about Project Fear.

We all knew the closer we got to escaping the EU the louder the squeals and lies of the minority would be. 🤣 But we are still leaving.

I think the Tory government will be very likely to lose the next election. There you go, one positive (maybe). Though don't think Jeremy Corbyn being PM is either likely or positive.

There will be a lot of job opportunities for people who used to be custom officers if they want to go back to it

No.

Walkingdeadfangirl yes that's right dear.

You did lots of research, you understood all the options fully, you have killer arguments that are verifiable and able to be referenced academically. You have all these arguments but you can't be bothered with all the nonsense on MN.

Of course that's right.

Nurse!

I'm sorry I can't

Love this from Tom Peck Am seeing yet more talk of the "blitz spirit" that will get us through no deal Brexit. I would love to have seen the atmosphere in those air raid shelters if half the people down there had voted for the blitz and the other half hadn't...

Actual quotes from members of the public on the BBC News this evening regarding the impact of food shortages following a no deal Brexit:

“As far as I’m concerned it would do the country good to go without for a little while. Make them appreciate what they had”

So there’s that. Some absence to make the heart grow fonder 😐

Moussemoose Why do I need to have killer arguments?

Omg Cola I just saw that, how fucking dare they decide what we can and can't eat, I hate the lot of them, belligerent, self satisfied old gits

'Killer' as an adjective to imply the arguments are so good they would kill the opposition.

Part of an implied extended metaphor.

"All leavers have 'killer arguments' that could defeat remain arguments but they choose not to deploy them for their own mystical reasons."

Motherofdragons you are a genius and I nominate you to replace Teresa May as PM immediately.

I strongly urge people to look for positives...

I'm sure when America was fighting George iii for independence... People felt afraid, fear... How could they survive cutting the cord from UK. Same in French revolution, many people were terrified still of defying the king etc... God's representation on earth...

Think of any other times when change has been traumatic but worked out well.

I do get the sense that so many people want it to fail.

At what point do you accept its happening and just

make the best of it. It's all anyone can do!
Political upheaval is all over the world... Massive awful upheaval...

I’m sure Nicola Sturgeon is making the best of it and hopefully planning indyref 2

Er, remind me. What came after the French Revolution?

What came after the French Revolution?

Now now, just look for the positives - for example, the guillotine was more humane than a rusty old axe

Needsahouseboy, that’s all made up guff and you know it. You’d be a long time looking for references that weren’t from the Daily Express to support those wacko theories. Just because an ex member of the RAF says them doesn’t make it true.

The person who ‘works in economics’, only 4% of economists think Brexit will have a positive impact on the economy over the next 5 years, and only 11% over the next 20. That’s from a survey of over 634 members of The Royal Economic Society and the Society of Business Economists carried out Ipsos MORI. Here’s the link. The report is damning. Good job nobody believes actual experts any more.

www.ipsos.com/ipsos-mori/en-uk/economists-views-brexit

For me? I discovered that my kids and I are eligible for an Irish passport, so at least I can go and get a job there or in another EU country if I lose mine here. Dublin and Paris are actively recruiting.

No more having to pander to the Human Rights Act.

How the hell can Human Rights be a negative

That's true Elements I hope there's plenty of WD40 to hand in order to keep the guillotines running smoothly!

Silly me

I didn't realise instead of being freed from the the tyranny of the ancien regime France still deployed the guillotine.

Back to the history books for me!