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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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SlayingDragons · 27/01/2020 19:48

To the PPs who have said they are planning on leaving the UK in light of Brexit...

I get it.

I hold 2 passports - British and Irish. Have done for a long time. I grew up and live in NI. I always identified equally as Irish and British. When my British passport expires next year I am not planning on renewing it. It’s a small step for now. I may get to the point in the future where I actually rescind my British citizenship. I don’t recognise the Britain I live in now.

I’m so sorry to all the PPs who have been hurt and who continue to hurt because of this mess and because of what this mess has brought to light. You are NOT dross and you will be missed.

Snowy111 · 27/01/2020 19:49

What decisions has merkel made exactly? I thought there was a democratic process and the UK had a lot of clout on that due to population?

malylis · 27/01/2020 20:00

The Merkel thing shows another example of the things brexiters complain we call them.

Songsofexperience · 27/01/2020 20:13

The Merkel thing is the tired conspiracy theory that somehow the EU is the 4th Reich.
Bloody hell...

JassyRadlett · 27/01/2020 20:22

‘Seems to have been’ = I spent zero time doing any research on this.

BurneyFanny · 27/01/2020 20:22

No concerns over how the referendum was run at all then Makasa? Not the slightest worry about Russian interference?

okiedokieme · 27/01/2020 20:29

Dd says everyone is going to university in black to symbolically demonstrate

Snowy111 · 27/01/2020 20:36

So when are we going to see the Russia report? Have I missed it?

NeckPainChairSearch · 27/01/2020 20:50

So when are we going to see the Russia report?

Our trusted leader - Boris Johnson, thank YOU Tory voters - doesn't think anyone needs to see that

BoneyBackJefferson · 27/01/2020 21:09

malylis
(as it would be assumed did non voters under precedent).

Except that it has never worked like that.

ExEUCitizen · 27/01/2020 21:31

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

Might have known. That bloody generation. For the opportunities you've had and taken away from my family and my kids, who will never get to have a say, thank you oh so very very much.

ineedaholidaynow · 27/01/2020 21:31

So Masaka how do you feel about people like silence leaving this country? Will you be celebrating at your party that she and other people will be leaving this country, whether you think they are dross or not?

oblada · 27/01/2020 21:35

Masaka - your democratic vote was not extended to EU nationals settled in the UK for 15+ years. I didn't vote. I had (then) 2 British children.
Is that really fair?

ddl1 · 27/01/2020 21:53

I'm a similar age and I voted Remain. Don't stereotype all The Older Generation!

ExEUCitizen · 27/01/2020 22:04

Quite right and I do try to keep that in mind. Unfortunately, as someone 15 years younger, I've watched goalposts move all my life - I've worked in positions giving concessions and benefits to that age group which all mysteriously vanished by the time it should be my turn - and it has felt like constantly having to run up one of those cartoon disappearing staircases. It hasn't stopped yet. I can't see Brexit helping. I would be absolutely delighted to be proved wrong.

AngelinaGrimke · 27/01/2020 22:16

Might have known. That bloody generation. For the opportunities you've had and taken away from my family and my kids, who will never get to have a say, thank you oh so very very much

ODFOD I'm 56 too and voted Remain. Stop whinging and make something of your life. I've got a 15 year old and am not predicting doom and gloom for her.

CountFosco · 27/01/2020 22:24

I live in the region that voted heavily for Brexit and yet is expected to be the worst affected by it. It's the poorest part of the country anyway. So bloody depressing.

chomalungma · 27/01/2020 22:24

ve worked in positions giving concessions and benefits to that age group which all mysteriously vanished by the time it should be my tur

Concessions and benefits at 56 Grin

PhilSwagielka · 27/01/2020 22:25

I'm just trying to get on with my life, same with most Remainers I know. Things aren't going to change overnight.

thenightsky · 27/01/2020 22:29

Please don't stereotype the older generation. Me and DH are 60 and 66 and we both voted to remain. As did my MIL who is 80. And my best friend who is 79.

PhilSwagielka · 27/01/2020 22:33

My parents voted Remain and they're in their sixties.

Im not going to get upset about it. Brexiters want a reaction, I'm not going to give you the satisfaction of one.

NeckPainChairSearch · 27/01/2020 22:56

To be honest, I only know three people who voted Brexit - they're all in their early 40's. Two of them - both teachers - admit they 'didn't really know why' they voted to leave.

The rest of my social/family groups - aged from 20's to 80's - all voted Remain.

NeckPainChairSearch · 27/01/2020 23:02

I live in the region that voted heavily for Brexit and yet is expected to be the worst affected by it. It's the poorest part of the country anyway. So bloody depressing

Absolutely. This is why I can't help staying angry. So many people who voted to Brexit will be the ones who suffer the most.

Who - in the name of FUCK - thinks that Johnson and Rees-Mogg are going to protect their interests?

It's going to hurt so much. A painful, depressing regression with the Tories at the helm. They've been itching to get their hands on Worker's rights and the Brexiteers have dumbly handed it over on a plate.

MsTSwift · 27/01/2020 23:03

Same Neck. One slightly odd mum at school voted leave no one else did certainly not my parents and my poor in laws have had to cut short their plans of living in Europe to come back here as MIL is German.

TwentyViginti · 27/01/2020 23:11

It's going to hurt so much. A painful, depressing regression with the Tories at the helm. They've been itching to get their hands on Worker's rights and the Brexiteers have dumbly handed it over on a plate.

This ^^^

I'm in my 60s, voted remain. Tories will now gleefully steal worker's rights.