To think everyine has forgotten about next Frìday?

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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?

I hope not, it’s my birthday.

Trying to ignore it tbh

I am just looking forward to the headlines about trade deals.
Apparently Boris wants to put tariffs on the US

I havent, its my daughters 9th birthday, she sadly died when she was 3. My boys and i plan on making her a birthday cake and then eating the lot.

Not forgotten, but what's the point of thinking about it now? It's game over, we're leaving. Anyone who thinks that the Tories have achieved "get Brexit done" on Friday is utterly deluded as that will be the start of years of working out what the fuck happens next. Still no one has been able to set out exactly how we'll be better off outside the EU. I've seen nothing to suggest my life, that of my kids, and of everyone else in the UK will be improved by it. Nothing at all. So best to let Friday quietly pass.

^ This.

Phillipa12

@pencilplantironingboard
After the years of hate speech this is the time to work together, ditch the vitriol and insults. I am amazed that you are keeping it going in this infantile way. Whatever we voted or wanted this is not the way to heal wounds. If you have fallen our with people you care for then I feel very sorry for you. For the five millionth time I am not a rascist and immigration did nott influence my vote to leave. I am not and never had gloated about the result. I am sad that you are continuing in this vein. In 1973 we were not all convinced it was the right path

Got my union jack flag at the ready to put up

'I have no idea what Johnson will do. He reminds me of Mr Toad in the Wind in the Willows.'

YES! I told someone not long ago that Wind in the Willows has been spoiled for me now, because Toad reminds me so much of our lovely Prime Minister!

I am genuinely tuned out. Competent powerless. I will just trying to avoid flag waving smugs.

There was a report in 2018 which stated that 14 out of 20 of the most corrupt countries on the CPI index (corruption perceptions index) were within the EU. The UK was in 80th position. The EU itself is reported to waste 120 billion Euros every year on corruption.

Why on earth anyone would want to be shackled to these countries is beyond my perception.

Roll on Leave. Can't happen soon enough.

I'm not counting it as nothing will change for next 12 months. I'm a remainer too, will be interested to see changes when they finally happen.

I’m glad it’s finally happening.

I’m from (and live in) Ireland and, for the past two years, a huge amount of our budget and resources has been dedicated to working out and trying to mitigate trade issues- I think we’ve actually done more Brexit planning than the UK.

Hoping now that it’ll just happen, and go smoothly enough that the Brits don’t bring us down with them.

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?

Impossible to forget sadly, as people keep on reminding us about it!

It's not, and never was, "hysteria" that many of us were feeling.

I will never feel "OK" with my country doing something so fundamentally and self-destructive.

As someone who supports evidence-based policy-making, I've yet to see or read anything that genuinely begins to make Brexit look like a good idea for the UK as a country or the vast majority of its population. From either a pragmatic or patriotic perspective, the situation is appalling.

I've never seen such a high concentration of liars, charlatans and incompetents running the UK as in the current government.

I've never seen such a sudden wholesale fracture of UK society as into "Remainers" and "Leavers". Am I a "Remainer"? No, I'm a British citizen and human being who doesn't like having changes imposed on my life and my country which are neither personally beneficial nor for a greater good.

None of this will suddenly be remedied by positive thinking, 50p commemorative coins, and naive jingoism.

Whether we're staying home, going out to protest, or just planning our future lives and actions as constructively as we can, 31 January is still very much in the minds of many.

I'm bored with the are we, aren't we leaving and just want it done with

There was a report in 2018 which stated that 14 out of 20 of the most corrupt countries on the CPI index (corruption perceptions index) were within the EU. The UK was in 80th position. The EU itself is reported to waste 120 billion Euros every year on corruption.

Why on earth anyone would want to be shackled to these countries is beyond my perception.

Were you reading the table backwards? www.transparency.org/cpi2018

at least my hysteria has died down.

Were you actually hysterical over it?

I'd compare leaving the EU to leaving a reasonably well paid job to work for yourself. Leaving means giving up pension and stability and carries the risk of complete disaster. Even if you do all the right things it can go terribly wrong.

But of course people do just that all the time. Other people weigh it up and decide not to. Both decisions are right in their own way. It's the kind of decision that adults have to make and you hardly ever know how it will turn out for sure. You may not even know afterwards which was the best choice.

So I can't see the point of "na! na! we won" and really if anyone is hoping it goes wrong so they can say I told you so that's a little sad.

I do wonder if this feels differently to those of us who are old enough that we remember before we joined. It was always a business arrangement to me not a marriage.

I haven't forgotten. I too think it's the biggest mistake this country has ever made, and it was fuelled by lies and misinformation on an unprecedented scale in my lifetime. I'm not optimistc about the future, but we are probably in the calm before the storm for a few more months.

I'm aghast at what the UK has become since the referendum. I naively thought that the horrific racism that was all around when I was growing up in the 60s and 70s had genuinely lessened in recent years. I now see that many dyed in the wool racists just stopped saying what they thought out loud because they knew they'd face consequences. Now they think they have government backing for their vile views, they have no qualms any more. I am ashamed and appalled.

If Scotland votes to leave the UK, I will be applying for my Scottish passport the instant it becomes possible. Pity London can't leave too.

There was a report in 2018 which stated that 14 out of 20 of the most corrupt countries on the CPI index (corruption perceptions index) were within the EU

You seriously think 14 of the world's 20 most corrupt countries are in the EU?

WrongKindOfFace - yes, looks like Junie70 has read the Transparency CPI index backwards (or possibly is having a joke).

If only we could be up at number 176 with straight and true North Korea, huh?

More like shutting down the company and deciding every other employee also has to go freelance, whether they like it or not.

@MasakaBuzz you realise that our country is essentially run by unelected civil servants too, right? Did you vote for Dominic Cummings?
The "they need us more than we need them" argument just doesn't hold water.
And any argument that starts with "we managed before we joined..." doesn't either, a we live in a completely different world that we did when we first became EU members. Just because we want to turn back time to the early 70's doesn't mean everyone else will. We are on our own.
Even that dipshit Brexit Party MP was complaining that we won't have any ability to hold the EU accountable through influence in the EU parliament because we will no longer have a seat at the table. You couldn't make it up.

Nope haven't forgotton about it. We're going out to try to take our mind off it, and the fact that we might have to find another £9000+ for a family member who is studying in Europe and may no longer be funded by the EEA budget after 2020 .