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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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BurneyFanny · 26/01/2020 10:05

´Me impressed that Makasabuzz managed to vote for Cummings and the House of Lords. Oh no that’s right, she didn’t.

MsTSwift · 26/01/2020 10:06

Just waiting for my children’s German passports to arrive in the post. You can leave if you want we’ve at least been able for 3 out of 4 of us to remain Europeans

WendyMoiraAngelaDarling · 26/01/2020 10:06

I think once a Tory Government won the election so decisively it was clear that the country was largely behind Brexit. At that point I realised there was no point fighting it anymore. I am keeping my head down and hoping for the best. What else can we do?

EmmaGrundyForPM · 26/01/2020 10:07

I hadn't forgotten. We've got friends coming round for copious amounts of alcohol in order to drown our sorrows.

CaptainButtock · 26/01/2020 10:07

It will be five years of hell before we go cap in hand begging to be let back in.
May as well get it over with I suppose 😐

WendyMoiraAngelaDarling · 26/01/2020 10:08

I'm glad for the transition period though. Going to book those Spain flights later.

dirtyrottenscoundrel · 26/01/2020 10:08

You can tell that remainers are praying for it to fail so they can say ‘I told you so’ it’s utterly pathetic and says a lot about them

I’m sure some of them will spend the rest of their lives monitoring the effects of brexit, literally praying for disaster.
It’s sad really. their lives must be very lonely and empty.

Paintingtheroseswhite · 26/01/2020 10:09

I'm incredibly sad about the whole thing.

I won't be working to bring the country back together as the blonde buffoon says I must now do to deliver the people who have destroyed our Country their glorious Brexit.

Rather, I will be taking a step back and watching with interest as they are forced to take responsibility for the shitshow they have created.

I am well underway in my plans to cut the friends and acquaintances whom I know voted Brexit out of my life and so far have found myself non the poorer for it. I think very much less of them and we clearly don't share the same values so I will no longer be engaging with them. Of the local traders whom I know voted Brexit, none will receive any more business from me.

Of the Brexiters I still have to engage with, when they inevitably start to moan about how the effects of this utter travesty are adversely affecting them on a daily basis I will take great delight in reminding them it's what they voted for and to suck it up as it was all "project fear" wasn't it?

I hadn't given much thought to the 50p and quite like the idea of taking them out of circulation, however, I may just indignantly hand them back in the shop and ask for a non Brexit replacement as I don't want anything to do with it or the people who have brought it upon us

WendyMoiraAngelaDarling · 26/01/2020 10:10

I'm a remainer. I'm desperate for it to work out. I'm reading all the articles about possible trade deals and hoping and hoping it will be fine. I honestly don't think the majority of remainders do want humiliating, painful failure actually.

Limensoda · 26/01/2020 10:10

Not forgotten. Still sure it's a massive mistake.
Still sure that the Tories winning the election is an even bigger mistake and will cause suffering for millions.
I'm just really disappointed that so many people don't give a shiny shit about people who are struggling, especially many of my generation (retired) who seem to have forgotten what it's like to struggle.

Reallycantbefuckedtothink · 26/01/2020 10:14

As a remainer I am thrilled, it means the Tory Party can get on with everything they promised and I am going to look forward to proving me wrong

Muddyfunker · 26/01/2020 10:15

I couldn't care less.

Twillow · 26/01/2020 10:15

Wearing a black armband. Incredibly sad. I'm not optimistic about the results of the negotiations (looks suspiciously towards the US).

catlady3 · 26/01/2020 10:19

Absolutely haven't forgotten about it and it's foolish to think Friday marks the end of something. It's the beginning of frantically trying to mop up this mess as we'll be left without trade deals in place etc. Friday also marks the beginning of the rejoin campaign.

Hoik · 26/01/2020 10:19

You can tell that remainers are praying for it to fail so they can say ‘I told you so’ it’s utterly pathetic and says a lot about them

And that right there is the attitude that I was talking about, if it all fails it will be blamed on Remainers for committing thought-crimes.

crankysaurus · 26/01/2020 10:19

I'm very much a remainder, I think the whole thing is a bloody stupid move and I'm tremendously sad that is happening.

I don't, however, wish it to be a disaster as that'll just leave a whole load of us fucked, especially the most vulnerable, who are already having quite a shit time of it.

I hope it will be a success. I still have yet to be convinced that it will be, but I very much hope to be proved wrong.

cybergran · 26/01/2020 10:19

in despair.... but that feeling is becoming quite the norm now...

Maddaddam · 26/01/2020 10:20

Not forgotten. I'm a diehard remainer and still can't see one positive outcome of brexit, but many many negatives. For now I'mm waiting to see how the coming year pans out, what sort of deal we eventually end up with. I'm trying not to dwell on it too much as it's just so depressing, but certainly am not going to "come together" or get over it.

MrsJakeLovell · 26/01/2020 10:20

We are no longer remainers- we are rejoiners now 🇪🇺

SilverySurfer · 26/01/2020 10:25

I haven't forgotten - I'm counting down the days to the bottle of champagne chilling in my fridge.

maddy68 · 26/01/2020 10:27

I will be in a different EU country , relocating our business feel really sorry for the Brits who will be losing their jobs , (they don't know it yet ) feeling very sad

MasakaBuzz · 26/01/2020 10:28

@ ChapP

You vote for MEPs every 4 yrs. if you haven’t taken it up, that’s your issue.

Benefits of EU membership:
Biggest frictionless trade deal in the world,

  1. We had that in the common market. We didn’t need the E.U. for that.

Longest period of peacetime in Europe in its history,

  1. Down to NATO not the E.U.

Pooled resources in respect of medical research,

  1. That happened before the E.U. and there is zero reason it can’t continue to happen post E.U. Surely it benefits everyone.

Shared information from security services on terrorism, hooliganism etc

  1. That’s really worked well, given the number of terrorists attacks across the E.U. Again why do we need an E.U. for that?

Free movement of goods and people means ability to attract best and brightest to UK,

  1. There is zero reason why we can’t continue to attract the brightest and best people to the U.K. The difference is we will be able to control that based on our needs. We can also filter out the dross.

  2. Given the E.U. Exports far more to us than we do to them, it’s surely in their best interests to continue with the free movement of goods. Why should we pay them to export their goods to us?

  3. As for the MEP’s the amount of power and ability to effect change they actually have is Zero.

You haven't managed to persuade me why we need another expensive and undemocratic layer of bureaucracy to do any of these things?

And that’s just for starters...

MAFIL · 26/01/2020 10:29

I haven't forgotten as the shit storm that is yet to come is already impacting on my husband's job so much that I have hardly seen him for weeks. It is only going to get worse I'm afraid.

tinytemper66 · 26/01/2020 10:30

It's my mum's birthday.

ddl1 · 26/01/2020 10:30

I certainly haven't forgotten. The day we become the first country in history to impose economic sanctions on itself. As generally happens with economic sanctions, there probably won't be drastic changes from one day to the next, but I think things will slowly get worse and worse. Fortunately, it will be a particularly busy day at work for me (for reasons unrelated to the B-word) so I won't have too much time to think about it. Also, I live in a very Remain-voting town, so I won't have to deal with too much gloating and triumphalism in my immediate surroundings.