What does Brexit mean to you?

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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.

Just wondering how to benefit from Brexit??? I'm guessing the rich white guys have that all figured out already.

It means you have taken over the AIBU boards as nobody bothers with the anti brexit board and you are being paid to take over social media for propaganda purposes.

So now both the brexit boards and AIBU boards are no go and MN ad revenue will be falling.

@JamesBlonde1 you think at least 48% of the country should emigrate?

@User344772734481882445 you know those aren’t Brexit experts, they’re businessmen with offshore interests, right....?

Well, they would think it’s a good idea. They get richer.

If they get rid of remainers that's the country fucked as it's the half with the most skilled and most educated. I have a professional that is on most countries skill list. Anyone I know who voted leave ( that's 3 people) 2 left school at 16 and 1 flunked all his exams!

I am so pissed off about the whole thing but please God let it be the end of the Tories as we know them.

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).

I’m really scared about Brexit but I have to say, this did make me laugh!

Seriously though - I’m genuinely frightened that a big recession after Brexit could mean I lose my job and therefore my home.

Well, they would think it’s a good idea. They get richer.

Indeed FenellaMaxwell, it's quite clear that Brexit will help to further line some people's pockets. Those people are going to be all for it as they'll benefit hugely, and also have the added advantage of being able to leave the UK should they need to.

I'm 49. Pretty much too old to emigrate. My kids are planning to now.

Imagine if all the young and motivated leave..like the did in Ireland for decades...

Frenellamaxwell and others - but it's good that business people who understand the economy think Brexit will work. There are many businesses that will thrive under Brexit and many economists and business persons who are confident Brexit can work for UK business, which ultimately benefits the economy and the country .

There's no point me telling you which politicians support Brexit, we know that but No-one has any faith in any politician so it makes no difference what they say. To know if Brexit will be ok, we need to speak to big business and economists as that is what matters in sustaining and growing a country.

but it's good that business people who understand the economy think Brexit will work.

Correction, they think Brexit will work for them.

No one with any common sense is saying Brexit will benefit the economy for a long time, even JRM thinks it will be 50 years.

100% disenfranchisement, arbitrary curtailment of my freedom of movement and arbitrary removal of rights on which my entire working and family life has been based. Having to reapply and pay for permanent residence that I already hold if there is no deal.

And stop it with the middle-class elite crap - I am state educated with Northern working class roots, married to a state-educated continental European with working class roots. Both of us were brought up to make the most of our opportunities rather than blaming forriners for all our problems.

I think leaving the EU is a backward step for the U.K. I see no benefit for the country (and have yet to read any evidence to the contrary).

Ironically on a personal level it prompted me to leave and work overseas where I get paid in a currency pegged to the USD. I’m so glad I left @JamesBlonde1

Greentheme23 - and it sounds like you are a bit up yourself to be honest. What's wrong with leaving school at 16? Who are you to say what is the ideal path in life? Perhaps the people you know who left school at 16 went off to get stuck into work because they wanted too. Or perhaps they didn't have the family support to encourage them to stay on in education.Or perhaps they didn't like school and fell behind. Or perhaps there were other good reasons for their decision .

This is the exact problem with some remainers - they seem to think they are better than everyone else.

(For what it's worth Greentheme23 , given that you seem to value education so much - I voted leave. I have a BA, MSc, PhD and several professional qualifications. I've been an academic and now a service lead in the public sector. Don't be so judgemental)

And thanks Rufus for actually saying what I've been thinking for the past 3 years when the "Don't like it .... leave the country" brigade come out in force.

If we're going to stoop to that level, it cuts both ways:
been there, done that - I've lived in continental Europe for 25 years and don't plan on going anywhere. It's you who are so keen to leave the EU. Off you trot then to Trump's America - fuckity bye!

Can we have some links to business leaders saying it will all be fine as I only read the opposite from business leaders and the banking sector.And that was before Boris and no deal.

Dyson has up sticked to Singapore gaining much criticism.

WaterSheep - exactly. If businesses know Brexit can work for them (and of course they all look after themselves and their own business interests) then thats a very positive sign for the economy. Individual business growing in the UK is good for us all, as it helps sustain and grow the economy and the country. If individual businesses can work well after Brexit, and the economy will continue to function well, and grow, that is the key. Furthermore, an optimistic economic forecast sustains the pound, and this is only provided by business in the UK foreseeing the economic growth which could arise from and after Brexit. Negativity on the stock market and in the country devalues the pound and is not at all helpful. The mass histeria in this country about Brexit is actually damaging for the pound and the economy as it's reflected in the global markets which devalue our pound.

You’re not seriously saying we all need to pretend it will be ok.

Err no thanks. You can force Brexit on us but you can’t force positivity. This has opened up a huge fan of worms for half the country who have now woken up to what the UK really is.

I suspect those that can will leave, they will encourage their children to leave. Those forced to stay and deal with a UK they no longer like or want to be in will try and change it as is democracy. What they won’t do is stick their fingers in their ears and chant it’ll be ok whilst pretending we live in a 50s vaccume.

No pretending necessary Moo - just for people to relax a little and not get on the 'we are heading for Armageddon' band waggon. A lot of the Brexit scaremongering is fuelled by people who don't necessarily put forward, or know, many of the economic underpinnings or the economic reality/possibilities of either the country remaining or leaving. When you actually sit down and consider the economics and watch the trends in big business, Brexit is not necessarily all the doom and gloom it's portrayed to be.

Soo those links

Name one economic benefit of leaving with a No Deal, user.

The vast majority will be forced to stay for all kinds of reasons - insufficient qualifications, too low income levels, unsought-after professions, lack of capital, lack of health insurance, small children, elderly parents etc etc. The poster upthread who suggested that people who don’t like it should leave was just being an ignorant twat. That’s the dark side of the anonymity of the internet.

What happens with Brexit is you lose the certain benefits of membership to gain the possibility of better future bilateral arrangements with non EU countries.
Personally I’ve always thought a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush and nothing the intellectual giants of the Brexit movement has said has persuaded me otherwise.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/uk.mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUKKCN1UR4C6

BoE not that positive, are they qualified to speak?

It means a big recession to me. I think there will be job lossess and prices rises. I'm a fairly solutions driven /optomistic person so i presume like other recessions it will end. I worry about DH being made redundant (he exports to europe) on a more personal level.