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What does Brexit mean to you?

303 replies

DtPeabodysLoosePants · 29/08/2019 17:50

Posting here rather than on the brexit topic to hopefully get a wider range of answers.

How do you see the future of the UK once it leaves the EU?

What will change? What will stay the same? What will be the biggest change for the country? Your community? Your family? Your friends? Your job? Or anything else that will be affected.

I'm not looking into a leave v remain debate, just perceived changes. Good or bad.

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User344772734481882445 · 29/08/2019 19:43

WaterSheep - they want out, and it finally feels like that may be going to happen ...

ghostofharrenhal · 29/08/2019 19:43

User344772734481882445 and can you elaborate with thy exquisite reasoning for this sunny disposition? Because lots of very experienced people think No Deal will be a shitstorm.

ghostofharrenhal · 29/08/2019 19:44

I can totally understand that people who voted Leave want to leave. I have no issue with that. But leave with No Deal? That's going to hurt us all.

MerryBerryCheesecake · 29/08/2019 19:44

On the morning of November 1st, a whirlpool will appear in The Thames, flames and big red horned Satan will emerge and take up residence on the top of Buckingham Palace (with Brian May forced provide the tunes).

All kittens will be born with 6 heads and 3 tails.

All children's heads will started spinning while projectile vomiting green sludge and they'll refuse to eat their dinner, seeing the last of the nation's food supply scraped into the composting caddy.

Every chemist, supermarket and small shop will simultaneously be out of paracetamol forever and everyone's eyes will pop from their untreatable headache.

Only tampons with drawing pins in them and impregnated with salt will be available because, you know, shitty incompetent British workers are the only ones making them now.

November 2nd, every person who can stand up will run out into the street and start offing their neighbours so they raid their food cupboard and pinch their bog roll.

November 3rd, UK will burst into flames, come loose from it's mooring and explode off into space heading for the sun.

Panic, panic, panic.

I am sick of hearing/seeing/reading it.

How about we wait and see, then bloody well cope with it because in reality we can do nothing else.

User344772734481882445 · 29/08/2019 19:45

..and lots of very experienced people think it will be fine!

SciFiRules · 29/08/2019 19:45

@howwudufeel
Zero hours contracts have nothing to do with the EU and everything to do with consecutive uk governments who chose to permit them!

User344772734481882445 · 29/08/2019 19:46

MerryBerryCheesecake - exactly! Love you!

WaterSheep · 29/08/2019 19:46

they want out

They want to leave with no deal? I recall very different conversations throughout the last 3 years. In fact no deal was waved off, as it would never get to that point...

derxa · 29/08/2019 19:47

Agriculture in the UK to be destroyed. However I'm continuing with my sheep farm -because I can.

WaterSheep · 29/08/2019 19:47

lots of very experienced people think it will be fine!

Who??

Dapplegrey · 29/08/2019 19:47

Bullshit. You posted here to be goady and let the usual suspects pile in.

This

Cheeserton · 29/08/2019 19:48

It means betrayal, in several senses. A deep, horrible betrayal. Nothing good will come of this.

ghostofharrenhal · 29/08/2019 19:48

But why do YOU think it will be fine User344772734481882445 ?

I hope it is all fine, I hope No Deal will be No Problem, of course I do. But I'm stocking up just the same.

User344772734481882445 · 29/08/2019 19:48

I'm not so sure you've been listening to the right people sheep! ...or you've been hearing what you want to hear! (anyway, while I'd be fine with a no deal, I doubt it will happen - the strength of conviction in no deal is designed to force Europe into a deal)

LeithWalk · 29/08/2019 19:48

Sad, segregated, selfish communities.

Lower living standards, lack of public services, scruffy streets, low expectations and standards.

I would emigrate if I could.

ALoadOfTwaddle · 29/08/2019 19:49

Nobody knows what it will change (if we ever actually get round to it!) particularly when speaking of the long term impact. I doubt it'll be the apocalypse though.

ghostofharrenhal · 29/08/2019 19:49

Ach, fuck it, I'm off to count my baked beans.

floodypuddle · 29/08/2019 19:50

Another recession. I graduated into the beginning of the recession and a distinct lack of jobs in the area I lived in with very high living costs and no family help. I'm just now at the point where we are comfortable enough to start really saving for a home deposit and I suspect rising cost of living is going to stop us being able to do that. Just so fed up of struggling despite my best efforts to work harder study more etc it all feels pointless and brexiters won't give a shit as they've got their owned houses and final salary pensions.

WaterSheep · 29/08/2019 19:50

I'm not so sure you've been listening to the right people

Ok, please tell me who to listen to then. Who is saying it's all going to be fine? who doesn't have a vested interest, with the potential to make a load of money from this mess

Jsmith99 · 29/08/2019 19:50

The U.K. becoming a smaller, poorer, more isolated, more divided, less influential country.

As recently as 2012, we held the best Olympic Games ever, and the whole world looked up to modern, open, tolerant, diverse, liberal, multicultural Britain. In those days, I was so proud of my country. I now wonder if I will ever be able to say that again Sad.

Bahlindah · 29/08/2019 19:52

In those days, I was so proud of my country. I now wonder if I will ever be able to say that again

I'll be able to say I'm proud of my country again.

Once my dual citizenship comes through.

NormHonal · 29/08/2019 19:53

Already happening to our family: deep and irreparable generational divisions. Shortages of medication.

My sector likely to cut jobs and move them overseas. Husband’s sector will lose funding and be cut to the bone.

Recession? Housing market already terrible.

We plan to emigrate.

Bahlindah · 29/08/2019 20:00

Recession is basically a given, just a question of how bad and how long.

If it's No Deal, I don't expect the economy to recover in my lifetime.

littlepaddypaws · 29/08/2019 20:02

merryberry another vote for you, so let's get on with it !

eurochick · 29/08/2019 20:06

Recession
Further devaluation of the pound
Job losses
A huge hit to the tax take from the City and elsewhere, leading to further cuts in public services
Loss of credibility on the world stage
A lowering of food standards to make trade deals with countries like the US

Longer term I could see a potential break up of the Union with Scottish independence and the reunification of Ireland
And a threat to stability in Europe from a Russia that wants a weaker EU

It's all roses and kittens really...

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