How shockingly ignorant Remain supporters are.

[ScreamingLadySutch]

Sorry, guys, but you are.

In the past week I have been told we must Remain because BJ is a dictator by one, and by another because it is easier to travel .

There seems to be no knowledge of our history and institutions, legal, political, sovereign and economic considerations, the history etc of Europe and what is really going on.

Labour and the trade unions were wholly against entry, and the Conservatives pushed it through by stealth and deceit. That crusty old socialist Tony Benn was prophetic on his remarks about what it meant. Now, today, that is reversed. Fascinating, really.

For a good grounding on the roots of the issue (Maastricht was going to result in Brexit it was completely inevitable), this documentary is quite useful:

Lol, two little comments (both correct but tiny passing comments). I think you know that remainders want to remain because of political and economic instability and the cost to our quality of lives.

I'm not sure about ignorant, but what I will say (as a Remainer) is that embarrassingly a lot of the very nasty and aggressive comments I've seen and heard have been Remainers striking out at Leavers. I think Brexit has shown up the very limited tolerance and empathy that a lot of left wing Remainers would like to pretend they have.

I’m not really too bothered about the history. That’s in the past. I’m concerned about the likely significant impacts on our lives going forward.

The impacts that have been admitted to be likely in the operation yellowhammer document.

eye roll

God I wish both sides would stop attacking the intelligence of the other.

Don't feed it.

There are also plenty of right wing remainers doing the same though I guess they'd be exempt of empathy anyway, FloatingObject?

Le sigh.

Hmmm. So you're quoting two people's passing comments as evidence that all (that's your implication) remainders are "shockingly ignorant". ..

Yes, YABU. You have reached this conclusion based on a sample of two people? Has it occurred to you that they may not be representative of Remainers in general

Yanbu.

The 70's are over. Brexit is a trojan horse for disaster capitalism mired in xenophobia and dog whistles.

People are angry because Brexiteers seem willing to scarifice the GFA for something that will make most people worse off.

I think Brexit has shown up the very limited tolerance and empathy that a lot of left wing Remainers would like to pretend they have.

There wasn't much tolerance in the breaking point poster was there?

ScreamingLadySutch

"Sorry, guys, but you are."

Why do you bother to say you are sorry for your sweeping statement and then continue to be shockingly rude?

Not everyone who wants to remain is ignorant, and not everyone makes comments like the ones to which you refer.

Don't you realise that having one thing or view in common doesn't make everyone the same? That's how racism, sexism and other various types of discrimination come about.

Oh bugger off you dullard.

I don't think any one side has the monopoly on idiocy

But stop wasting your time on here op, it’s remain dominated, so most leavers gave up talking about brexit ages ago.

If I were to make sweeping judgements about everyone based on people I come into contact with, I’d assume all leavers were uneducated (haven’t met any in real life with a higher education) and slightly racist.

All my friends and family are remainers. Ranges from those with little political knowledge (I would be close to them on that scale!) to someone who read PPE at Oxford and now runs a multi million pound organisation.

You also seem to have missed that many, many politicians themselves are remainers, including some who are now working to try and leave and “give the people what they want”.

Oh, and, in case your interested - my husband works for an international bank and they’ve already moved half of his team’s jobs to Republic of Ireland and are planning on winding down UK operations in the long term. Luckily I have an Irish passport so if we really have to we will just jump ship.

What a ridiculously goady thread.

I'm sure there are leavers who have also made ignorant comments, but I wouldn't start a thread saying leavers as a group were ignorant.

'that embarrassingly a lot of the very nasty and aggressive comments I've seen and heard have been Remainers striking out at Leavers'

I think that's true, but more recent. But then, I've had enough of 'remoaners', 'get over it', 'we won' as an answer to every discussion to last me a lifetime

I think there have been some very horrible comments made by both remainers and brexiteers against the other side. It really doesn't help. We are where we are. I voted remain. We lost. We are (rightly) now leaving and we need to work on ways to make that work best for everyone and help to ensure people can get on together again.

Oh dear. You are wrong but not intelligent or perceptive enough to realise it. I feel sorry for you.

Go onto you Gov and give your opinion shockingly I dont actually care

Sick of seeing brexit posts in here. There is a separate section that they belong in