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To think everyine has forgotten about next Frìday?

515 replies

malificent7 · 26/01/2020 08:55

Brexit isn't it? Im a remainer and i feel ok about it...at least my hysteria has died down. What about the rest of you?

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Nonnymum · 27/01/2020 16:19

*WhereShallWeMoveTo'
The government's own figures have shown that EU nationals pay more into the UK than they take out?
Its also nonsense to say EU freedom of movment has put pressure on public services austerity has done that.
A lot of EU migrants actually work in those public services. Without them out hospitals, and social care services would be even more strained.
Leaving the EU will have no impact on human trafficking and slavery

ForalltheSaints · 27/01/2020 16:32

I have not forgotten about it. I have not forgotten either that it is not 'brexit done' as the trade deal has to be worked out.

OrangeLindt · 27/01/2020 17:17

Get a grip you whinging remoaners Wink

AngelinaGrimke · 27/01/2020 17:32

You can’t kick someone out of the country who has a legal right to be here just because they are homeless. They should be provided with the same assistant as a UK citizen sleeping rough (if there is ever any money put into this service)

Actually, I believe EU law allows you to send someone back to their home country after 3 months if they can't support themselves.

AngelinaGrimke · 27/01/2020 17:33

Get a grip you whinging remoaners

You're not allowed to call us that anymore - we're rejoiners now Smile

Parker231 · 27/01/2020 17:40

EU nationals already in the UK but homeless are entitled to apply for settled status.

AngelinaGrimke · 27/01/2020 17:53

But we are entitled to send them back (hate that phrase because of its connotations) and it would be reasonable to do so.

IvyTrails · 27/01/2020 18:17

@MasakaBuzz

More on control of inward migration - what the UK government has not done.

"... the biggest deception is this: we could easily have taken back control of our borders already under European Parliament and Council Directive 2004/38/EC, which allows EU member states to repatriate EU nationals after three months if they have not found a job or do not have the means to support themselves. "

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/31/britain-take-back-control-immigration-eu-directive-brexit

silencebeforethebleeps · 27/01/2020 18:18

Well I would like to think that people will miss me and my professional expertise and my hard work and my longstanding net contribution to British society and the British economy when I'm gone - but they'll probably be too busy congratulating themselves on how much 'dross' they think they've managed to prevent from entering THEIR country.

JassyRadlett · 27/01/2020 18:35

We tried, but were told it was unlawful. I walked around Park Lane in London looking for the monument to Animals in War. I felt very uncomfortable and quite threatened by the number of Romanian rough sleepers.

Did you check their passports?

IvyTrails · 27/01/2020 18:42

@silencebeforethebleeps

Well I would like to think that people will miss me and my professional expertise and my hard work and my longstanding net contribution to British society and the British economy when I'm gone - but they'll probably be too busy congratulating themselves on how much 'dross' they think they've managed to prevent from entering THEIR country.

Many of us will, and we're very sorry for what our country has done to you and the 3m

NeckPainChairSearch · 27/01/2020 18:48

Well I would like to think that people will miss me and my professional expertise and my hard work and my longstanding net contribution to British society and the British economy when I'm gone - but they'll probably be too busy congratulating themselves on how much 'dross' they think they've managed to prevent from entering THEIR country

I'm sorry. I'm sure you will be sorely missed.

I have never felt ashamed of this country before - I do now, and I suspect that's how it will stay.

littlepaddypaws · 27/01/2020 18:49

nothing is going to change on friday, but i'm glad it's happening, long over due.

littlepaddypaws · 27/01/2020 18:51

silence why are you leaving as a point of interest and curious as to your area of expertise,

silencebeforethebleeps · 27/01/2020 19:01

littlepaddypaws A combination of frustration, a steady increase in micro-aggressions, and my own bloody-mindedness (not getting promotions because I'm foreign, having to explain why I'm here on a daily basis, refusing to go through the humiliation of applying for residency). I look after people at critical times in their lives - when they're in a crisis, when they're bereaved, when shit happens and they've got nowhere else to go.

Antihop · 27/01/2020 19:02

I've not forgotten. I'm fucking devastated.

littlepaddypaws · 27/01/2020 19:04

why refuse a residency ? it's a shame you feel you have to leave when you are obviuosly trying to make a difference to those in need.

silencebeforethebleeps · 27/01/2020 19:07

I'll do it somewhere people actually appreciate me.

MasakaBuzz · 27/01/2020 19:21

Dross was an inappropriate word and I apologise for that.

However I get incredibly fed up with the fact that people who voted to stay have refused to accept the result of a democratic vote.

The endless attempts to rerun the vote, to tell people who voted leave that they didn’t know what they were voting for, whilst conveniently forgetting the fact that remainers didn’t know what they were voting for either. Our membership of the EU wasn’t going to remain the same.

I am 56. The vote in 2016 was my first opportunity to have a say in our membership of the E.U.

I have never been comfortable with the EU. I dislike the fact that over the last few years the majority of the decisions seem to have been made by Angela Merkel, somebody who I have never voted for.

I think this is a great country, with a proud history of democracy, and of doing what is right, even when what is right might seem insane to outsiders.

As many people have said we are not leaving Europe. We will still be Europeans, and citizens of Europe. We will not however be citizens of the E.U.

I still love much about Europe - particularly the beer......!!!

I don’t wish ill on the EU, I hope for the sake of their people it is a success.

Yes I will celebrate on Friday. As well as the next stage in leaving the EU, One of the things that I will be celebrating is that fact that in spite of all, the democracy in this country has been preserved. I will get my Brexit 50p, and chuck it in the pot along with the other coins with pictures on. I will be pleased to have it, but it won’t be anything like as pleased I was to find the Sherlock Holmes 50p in my change.

That’s all.

thenightsky · 27/01/2020 19:23

conveniently forgetting the fact that remainers didn’t know what they were voting for either.

I thought remainers were voting for nothing to change? Confused

NeckPainChairSearch · 27/01/2020 19:34

whilst conveniently forgetting the fact that remainers didn’t know what they were voting for either

Eh? You can bang on about why you voted Brexit, but this is plain silly.

I think this is a great country, with a proud history of democracy, and of doing what is right

Well that's fucked now then.

Brexit is an absolute embarrassment and a hideous legacy to hand to future generations.

malylis · 27/01/2020 19:35

Remainers votes for the current status quo ( as it would be assumed did non voters under precedent).

Leavers voted for change. But never agreed what it would look like.

pigsDOfly · 27/01/2020 19:40

conveniently forgetting the fact that remainers didn't know what they were voting for either.

I knew what I was voting for. I was voting for the same thing as every other remainer, to stay in the EU. Of course we knew what we were voting for.

malylis · 27/01/2020 19:44

Remainers knew what they were voting for.

Leavers voted for their own fantasies.

Arkadas · 27/01/2020 19:47

over the last few years the majority of the decisions seem to have been made by Angela Merkel,
Oh, for fuck's sake.