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To think there will be riots?

853 replies

Anoni · 28/08/2019 10:51

Announced on the news that boris johnson may suspend parliament to reduce the chance of mps being able to block a no deal brexit allowing him to democratically force the uk to leave the EU.

Am i wrong in thinking if this goes ahead there may be serious protests and maybe even riots in london and all across the country to force the governments hand?

OP posts:
bellinisurge · 29/08/2019 16:56

Clogged up with stupid idiots who didn't bother to get a buffer of food in.

sunshine11 · 29/08/2019 17:32

So over this already. Let’s Brexit and move on.

I started out being vehemently pro Europe but the more I learn the more horrified I am at the ride the UK is being taken for. We import loo roll, washing up gloves and bacon for God’s sake. Surely we can produce that stuff here therefore creating jobs?!

sunshine11 · 29/08/2019 17:34

Just reading some of the comments. People seriously WANT to have the Euro? Are you mad? Do you understand anything about the way it works and how financially crippling it will be for us, especially when all the eastern bloc countries are admitted?

Ligresa · 29/08/2019 17:37

I voted remain but am pragmatic enough to know we are leaving and all this stuff about getting a deal before we leave is stopping us leaving and getting a deal when we have left

This.

Cinammoncake · 29/08/2019 17:44

Clogged up with stupid idiots who didn't bother to get a buffer of food in.

Newsflash. Not everyone can afford to Hmm

bellinisurge · 29/08/2019 17:46

News flash- slowly, proportionately, within a sensible budget most people can.
I've been advising how to do this on here for a year.

Cinammoncake · 29/08/2019 17:47

I'm sure the sweet loveable humanitarian people of the eu wouldnt want any british people to die by denying them medicine

So we're negotiating a deal with them and not passing it, pissing them about right up till the last minute, leaving and expecting exceptionally favourable terms, and it's all their fault if we can't get imports through our borders or make it as smooth as if it never happened.

Or could it be the fault of our country, and our own responsibility.

Cinammoncake · 29/08/2019 17:48

bellini I disagree. Take people who use food banks for example.

chickencoup · 29/08/2019 17:48

I lived in Egypt during two lots of civil unrest and two military coups (overthrow of Mubarak and Morsi). That was some intense stuff. The people there had absolutely nothing to lose in taking to the streets, they had hit rock bottom and the wealthy minority backed them up and took to the streets as well. Not that it did much good, but that is another story.
There are millions of people living in appalling conditions as outlined by the UN Rapporteur in his recent report and as a nation. We should be collectively outraged about this but the Tories have just shrugged it off as 'nonsense'. We should already have taken to the streets about this. We should all have taken to the streets about the failure with Grenfell but we didn't. We are becoming a selfish nation. What Boris has done is outrageous but I doubt there will be riots, especially when we can barely muster the energy to complain about the things that really matter, like the treatment of the disabled in this country and a decade of austerity.

Alexalee · 29/08/2019 17:51

Roads clogged up... ever heard of air freight?

bellinisurge · 29/08/2019 17:51

@Cinammoncake , they are not the majority. And, if people who don't need food banks look after themselves, they keep out of the way and people who need it get help.

Tonnerre · 29/08/2019 17:51

I'm sure the sweet loveable humanitarian people of the eu wouldnt want any british people to die by denying them medicine

If there's no trading agreement in place or any sensible mechanism for transporting it, they're not going to swim over the channel to give it to us for free out of the goodness of their hearts.

bellinisurge · 29/08/2019 17:51

Ever heard how expensive air freight is?

Cinammoncake · 29/08/2019 17:52

Most sane people wonder why we as a country are putting ourselves through this.

bellinisurge · 29/08/2019 17:53

I agree with you in that @Cinammoncake

Shell4429 · 29/08/2019 17:53

For those who say we’re too apathetic, google protests not covered by social media in the uk. There have been many, and I can easily see them going up a notch.

KadieFae · 29/08/2019 17:55

I hope there is rioting.

I hope that no one gets hurt.

We need to make our voices heard.

#GeneralStrike (Check twitter guys!)

ilovemyskunks · 29/08/2019 17:57

Cannot believe how much people are panicking about no deal, scaremongering again! Too much of this happened before the vote to leave. As if the government are not going to put anything into place for importing medicines and just let people die! Yeah right. There are a lot of people who still want Brexit, just not a lot of people on here.

Ligresa · 29/08/2019 17:59

I could understand the anger if the referendum result was to stay and THEN the govt decided they were going to pull us out anyway. THAT would be undemocratic.

bellinisurge · 29/08/2019 18:00

Calling @TheElementsSong !

ilovemyskunks · 29/08/2019 18:01

People die every day from drugs which the NHS wont provide because they are too expensive.

LonelyTiredandLow · 29/08/2019 18:03

Yes, we import a lot. Do you think in the remaining days we are suddenly going to open loo roll factories, for example? Yet leavers on here still say "nothing with change" or "we've been lied to about what will happen" - how do you know? Experts and business leaders have said what they can predict. We don't know the full scale of it; no country has ever left the biggest trade bloc before and gone solely onto WTO. There are sensible reasons for that.

pinkstripeycat · 29/08/2019 18:03

Stressedout10

End of the UK

Yes because we are going to sink in to the sea aren’t we? No we’re not. Stop being over dramatic

Oliversmumsarmy · 29/08/2019 18:05

voting leave because freedom of movement isn't as free as you thought makes no sense either, as you'd have zero freedom of movement if we crash out

But as we don't have real freedom of movement I can't see any difference.

If we do supposedly have checks and restrictions on migrants the question has to be asked why are there so many eu migrants rough sleeping under Marble Arch or living cheek by jowel in slum rooms.

And yes it is an embarrassment that there was a referendum and the Remainers didn't win but can't seem to live with the hand they have been dealt and resort to name calling the opposition or protesting or trying to delay us leaving.

We are leaving now we have to get on with it.

I dont believe there will be a huge scarcity of drugs.
Maybe a few rarer medications
Dp has cancer and is diabetic.

He has had his medication restricted for some time now. Instead of giving out a 3 month supply of something he uses every day it has been rationed to the point of him going away for 2 weeks with work and having to beg for an extra prescription from his doctor.

If anything dp is more annoyed we didn't leave in March as he now has had to endure 7 more months of rationing

LonelyTiredandLow · 29/08/2019 18:06

ilove so you want to increase that to include drugs we did have access to? Why? How about the uranium for X-rays that radiologists are now wondering if they will have to prioritise? Our nuclear waste NI is going to have to become our dustbin for? The new landfill sites being rushed through planned for the NE because we can't export it now? Worth it?

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