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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 · 26/01/2020 09:21

Definitely haven’t forgotten. Live in NI and believe me, we are all very aware of the shit we’ve been landed in. Waiting for our border poll and hoping a United Ireland comes in my lifetime

Besidesthepoint · 26/01/2020 09:21

Pretty sure we will be back at 11th hour scramble with the EU this time next year.

It's not possible though. The current agreement does not have a possibility for extensions. The UK will be out at the end of the year, with or without a deal.

GoldenKelpie · 26/01/2020 09:21

To be fair, malificent7, I have not watched news on tv for a few years, choosing to read selected bits, but not brexit; the non-stop bickering is exhausting.

I believe that, once the deal is done, all focus will switch to making it work, as it has to. That is a good thing.

malificent7 · 26/01/2020 09:21

I will definately bury my head in the sand.

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LeekMunchingSheepShagger · 26/01/2020 09:23

I haven’t forgotten about it and I’m still very sad. Nothing will change immediately though; it’s in December that we need to start worrying I think.

Hoppinggreen · 26/01/2020 09:23

We plan to spend Friday evening in our local Spanish restaurant with other Remainer friends and trying to pretend it’s not happening
I’m incredibly sad and embarrassed about what our country has become and very worried for the people who will be hit hardest by the shitstorm that’s about to hit us - despite the fact that the majority of them voted for it
We will be fine, we are financially secure and DH and the Dc have dual nationality and DH can work abroad easily if work dries up here. We might even leave after Dd has done her GCSEs next year.

TheMotherofAllDilemmas · 26/01/2020 09:24

I’m just trying not to think about it. There’s nothing I can do, the cabinet is filled by donkeys led by a psychopath that is not even the PM. I am trying not to get depressed by avoiding the news.

Saddler · 26/01/2020 09:26

I'll be out with friends celebrating

CallmeAngelina · 26/01/2020 09:28

Have all the discussions over the last 4 years not been enough for you then?

JassyRadlett · 26/01/2020 09:28

The current agreement does not have a possibility for extensions. The UK will be out at the end of the year, with or without a deal.

July will be interesting.

Reality - we will probably roll over in December in desperation as the much-vaunted US deal will be politically unacceptable (see US ambassador’s comments this week) and EU hold most of the cards in that negotiation.

Cremebrule · 26/01/2020 09:29

I’ll be sad but in many ways Friday is just the start of the negotiations. I am relieved the coin has been more conciliatory in design though. I was expecting something more provocative and divisive so I’m a little bit more confident that the media rhetoric of Johnson might be quite different to what’s going on behind the scenes. It’s given me a little hope anyway.

OddBoots · 26/01/2020 09:30

I realise it is entirely pointless but I have bought amazon.co.uk/Final-Movement-Symphony-No-9-Op-125/dp/B07VZ36W4D/ Ode to Joy]] and I am sure I will listening to it on Friday.

MasakaBuzz · 26/01/2020 09:34

@ stinkycat101

I will be celebrating the first real step in disengaging with the E.U.

As for immediate changes I am not expecting anything different on Saturday morning as to pre 23:00 hundred hours on Friday. However over the transition period changes will start to come in.

I have never expected a Brexit to be easy, and as a general rule I don’t believe a word any politician says be it E.U. ones, Farage or our own elected ones. However I don’t think the E.U. has been a force for good, and I think this country will be better out than in.

The a Common Market fine. The E.U. not fine.

ChazP · 26/01/2020 09:34

I haven’t forgotten about it. I will never forget about it. I am still as distraught and angry as I was the day after the result. I will never forgive any person that voted for it. It makes me sad that it has brought out a vindictive side to me I never knew I had. When the inevitable job losses and financial hardship come I’m actively wishing it on those that sent us down this path of self-destruction. I want them at the food bank queues. I want them last in the line for NHS treatment and I hate myself for feeling like that about fellow humans. But then I remind myself of how deluded and selfish the people were that did this to the rest of us.

ilovesooty · 26/01/2020 09:34

I haven't forgotten. And I will never forgive the people who caused this.

Clariana · 26/01/2020 09:35

Wow @Pencilplantironingboard!

I voted Brexit, so I am a hardened racist? I work in the EU Commission and I see first hand the sheer arrogance of the bureaucrats, the undemocratic smugness and the monumental waste of time, money and resources. Guess that makes me a racist!

JosephineDeBeauharnais · 26/01/2020 09:37

We haven't forgotten. We're going on holiday to France via Switzerland next weekend and will be interested to see what happens with border controls if anything. All in our party bought our € early though as the rate has been pretty good for a while and who knows what will happen next week.

ChazP · 26/01/2020 09:37

MasakaBuzz

@ stinkycat101

I will be celebrating the first real step in disengaging with the E.U.

So once again a Brexit voter who can identify no tangible benefit.

I despair, I really do.

ilovesooty · 26/01/2020 09:38

And sadly I feel just as @ChazP does.

Also my hatred for Cameron, Farage and Johnson remains undiminished.

MelbaToast · 26/01/2020 09:38

I definitely won't be celebrating in any shape or form. I'm fed up of all of it. What would have made me happy would have been if the remainers in government could have not been so emotionally wrapped up in protesting against brexit and blocking every step and actually stood beside the government to tell them what they wanted out of brexit. Where we are now is just as much the fault of remainers as it is exiteers. And I am a remainer.

WiseUpJanetWeiss · 26/01/2020 09:39

Not forgotten, still appalled. Friday is just the calm before the negotiations which I expect to go badly and be blamed on the nasty EU. No deal is still a risk, and I have no idea what Johnson will do. He reminds me of Mr Toad in the Wind in the Willows.

I will be taking any Brexit 50ps I receive out of circulation for a few years.

theflushedzebra · 26/01/2020 09:41

I'm burying my head in the sand, and quietly getting smashed on French wine too.

Longwhiskers14 · 26/01/2020 09:41

Remainer here. I'll be raising a mournful glass to our EU friends on Friday and bracing for the economic shit-storm that's heading our way. Anyone who thinks we're not in for a bumpy ride is naive beyond belief.

Wingedserpentfliesbynight · 26/01/2020 09:42

I HAD totally forgotten. I’m a remainder but my family are all dual nationals U.K./Europe with passports so I feel we at least have some options available if it does go pear shaped here.

Cheguevarahamster · 26/01/2020 09:43

I'll be raising a toast to Europe with a glass of Prosecco and shouting bong at 11pm.

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