Redundancies caused by Brexit

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The company I work for has announced this morning that, due to Brexit, our customers are holding off from placing orders, so redundancies must be made.

Aibu to think that those in the company who voted for this shambles, should stand by their vote and volunteer to take redundancy?

I'd go for this.

Of course by my reckoning I am owed thousands from those that voted tory, labour and lib dem for the various policies that have adversely affected me and others over the years.

Student loans
The selling off of council houses
BTL
the pension holiday for companies
austerity
various tax levels that were dropped
And I am sure that there are others.

And remember its not you being punished, its you standing by your vote.

I don't know what your sector is OP but I feel for you. In retail, there is going to be a bloodbath this winter, thanks to Brexit.

Already, the October 31 deadline was a disaster - the government droning on about how these businesses needed to "Get Ready for Brexit" on the 31st of October, ignoring the fact that this is the worst possible time to f**k around with our retail sector - when all their warehouses should already be full ready for Christmas - Every year, it is, literally, the annual "make or break" season. Not exactly festive.

And now - a post-Christmas Brexit - great!! Bit of a dampner on your Christmas shopping.

Who will go under I wonder - Marks and Spencer, John Lewis, Debenhams, it's all to play for.

And people like Twatty (great username btw) will be telling us it is all down to their business model, online shopping, weather, even climate change etc etc etc yawn.

Heaven forbid that anyone who voted for this hole in the head should ever take any responsibility.

YANBU OP.

A good friend of mine was informed on Friday that her (high profile) employer is making many redundancies due to BREXIT and she has been put at risk and is very likely to go. She is a single parent whose XP has gone AWOL so she is devastated.

Hopefully she will get another job but with the economy likely to tank post BREXIT, why shouldn't those idiots who voted for this pile of shite take the brunt of it?

Because now the homework has been done, that which should have been done prior to offering a simplistic referendum on a complex, multifaceted issue (thus highly likely, not going there....) many in government realise Brexiting is a hugely damaging act of financial, political and social suicide.

This with unicorn-encrusted knobs on. There is nothing surprising in all of this, that’s the most tragic thing.

DH has also been warned about redundancies because a lot of their stuff is imported. He voted to remain but his colleagues didn't and they are now furious that they may lose their jobs. DH is having to bite his lip a bit because he doesn't want to be unkind, but the same colleagues still don't want Brexit revoked, but expect to keep their jobs

Figment in your relentless frothing at the mouth, you seem to have missed that I voted Remain. And Remain a Remainer.

It's the personal attacks like yours, and some of the self-righteous rabidity elsewhere on this thread, that gives the rest of us Remainers a bad name in general. But then, I accept that other people have the right to make different decisions to me - even if they are ones I wouldn't take and profoundly disagree with.

To be fair, boneyback, regarding all the less-than-favourable policies, with a GE you vote for a party that most closely aligns with what you want, accepting some compromises along the way.

With Leave/Remain, you vote 100% precisely for what you think you want.

Remainers are a nasty bunch, aren’t they?

But Twatty, you must surely see the cognitive dissonance in being a committed Remainer, yet excusing the redundancies that the company have said are due to Brexit as not being caused by Brexit, when 'job losses' was a central, much mocked ('Project Fear') tenet of Remain- it makes no sense.

As I said up-thread, things like job losses is precisely what Remain said would happen, so, unless you are a Trojan horse...!- I think we should take this on face value.

Oh, PulpPixie....

We are merely asking Leave to own the long forewarned consequences of their vote.

That's not 'nasty', any more than telling your children that actions have consequences. Thus to act accordingly.

And a very human desire to not be the one who suffers if poor decisions are made.

And the people that didn't vote? Do they get pushed to the front of the queue too for redundancy? If not why not?

Come the GE, people can vote accordingly however when the result is announced, I expect Parliament to argue that it was the wrong result and that we should have another GE just to make sure.

Somehow, I don’t think that will happen and people will say it was the demographic will of the people and the result should be respected 😳

I expect JC supported by the SNP to get in, then watch the wailing and gnashing of teeth 😳

Fading- there is an argument that says they should be in the second tranche, behind the Leavers, yes.

Remainers are a nasty bunch, aren’t they?
Nope. I'm a Remainer and I am lovely.

Surely if you voted for Leave, when the Leave repercussions (like redundancy) happen, you would volunteer for them. After all you knew this would happen because you were well informed by high profile Leavers and Remainers whose concerns were dismissed as Project Fear.

Fall in the pound has already effected a number of businesses, including my dh's firm who had their first people redundant in 30 years as a direct result.

I suspect there will be a lot of cries of "but that isn't what we voted for" as "project fear" becomes "project reality".

Because no companies ever ever failed pre Brexit...sigh.

I know someone who worked in a eurasmus office at a local uni. She voted leave . Apparently she is is peeved that she is to be made redundant!

If the drastic slowdown in UK growth that is behind the lack of orders can't be assigned to brexit 'because we have not left' - then it must be down to the government mustn't it?

Saying its down to the 'uncertainty' means the government have failed to execute their detailed and well thought out but oh so secret brexit plan.

Whichever - its still down to the Conservative government. Carry on voting for them if you want more of the same.

(The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. - A Einstein)

@joangray38. I have had a bad day at work. Thanks for cheering me up.

I really hope people will to take notice of the jobs impact of Brexit now even though it is too fucking late s it's what I've been banging on about since the referendum was announced. There are so many EU funded projects and therefore employees across the country of these projects and that's the tip of the iceberg with regards the financial impact and social impact of these disappearing and the knock on effect on secondary industries to this

YANBU. My DM voted to leave and openly admits she did so knowing was she would have to struggle on through a recession and other downsides to Brexit as it was worth it for the bigger prize (that being the only bit of her argument that she can't articulate ).

Therefore when there's a medicine shortage, I fully expect her to be morally at the back of the queue and struggling on. This would be the same if she was at work and was expected to volunteer for redundancy.
Basically you have to put your money where your mouth is. You are free to vote to throw friends, family and colleagues under a bus, but you need to be prepared to jump first, otherwise it's just hypocritical, isn't it?

Miljah
To be fair, you either apply this to every vote and its consequences or you are a hypocrite that only wants this when it applies to you.