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 haven't forgotten. Solid Remainer here but just have to hope it's not the disaster I think it will be for the sake of us all but particularly the young.

A relative is having a celebratory bash, we aren't going.

I'll be donating any of the new 50p coins I get to charity so at least there's a plus for someone anyway!

There is that narcissism that we have all come to know.

Oh my, you don’t do humour do you! I am taking the mick, in the great British tradition. It’s one of our core values don’tchaknow!

Yet, you are assuming that we were all driven by the sound bites. So after three years you have either not listened, not understood or refused to accept anyone else's view as having any validity, not exactly growth by anyone's standards.*

Ah now, see, you missed an option there. There is also the possibility that I have listened, understood and still believe your reasoning to be flawed.

I just saw something online elsewhere about collecting the Brexit coins to donate to charities supporting asylum seekers and the homeless. Sounds good to me.

Blibbyblobby

Ah now, see, you missed an option there. There is also the possibility that I have listened, understood and still believe your reasoning to be flawed.

That I will accept.

Strong likelihood I think that in 10 years’ time we will be being told how great our growth has been outside Europe and wondering why if that is the case, our qualify of life seems so much worse. And the answer will be that the economic gains were concentrated into a few hands.
I think you're right here, BlibbyBlobby.
This is more or less already the case in our economy - we're told we have a strong economy but wage growth is more or less stagnant and food bank usage is growing. Johnson was banging on about opportunities for all during his election campaign, so let's see him put his money where his mouth is and deliver a Brexit that benefits the many, not the few. Probably best not to hold our breath...

Well, at least all those who stockpiled mountains of food, medicines, candles, water purifying tablets, etc. will be able to stay at home and use them up if the coronavirus comes here! PS - I am looking forward to Friday!

I’m very, very sad and concerned but, since the general election result, I’ve been resigned to the fact it’s inevitable, most people really are sufficiently stupid and selfish enough to want this, and a conservative government to implement it, and resolved to make the best of it.

I shall sit quietly contemplating on why so many people in this country are bat shit crazy enough to celebrate the daftest decision this country has ever made.

The turkeys will find out, over time, how enthusiastically they voted for Christmas.

The blind eye that Brexiteers are willfully turning to how Brexit will make life so much harder for so many poor and vulnerable in our society disgusts me.

So many of the things that we take for granted - food standards is a major one - because of the EU, will be in freefall.

We have the likes of Johnson, Rees-Mogg et al to protect people who need help. Those self-serving pricks are in the ultimate position of trust. And people are fucking celebrating.

@Blibbyblobby -

1. The fact there has been peace in Europe since 1945 is nothing to do with the E.U. It’s to do with NATO.
2. Common standards are bull excrement. Look at animal welfare and tell me there are common standards. Many of our standards were far higher than the ones that have been imposed upon us. We don’t need some overpaid official from the E.U. to do that. We have our own overpaid politicians for that.
3. As for clout - The USA and China are so big, I doubt the EU has any clout regardless.
4. The Greater Good is having politicians accountable via the ballot box. The EU leaders are not. For those people who mentioned Dominic Cummings. If Boris goes, so does Cummings.
5. Look at Youth Unemployment across the EU and tell me just how youth unemployment rates of 30+ % in Italy and Greece benefit those youth. How are the people of Greece benefiting from not being able to get medicine, and having their country turned into a gigantic refugee camp benefiting them?

A one size all system never works. Individual countries have individual needs. The EU does not accommodate that.

@ TurnTurnTurn I repeat - if the E.U. is so wonderful, why couldn’t Europhiles explain why in simple enough language that all of us thick Brexiteers could understand?

I haven't forgotten but have had rather a lot on my plate recently so it hasn't been on top of my thoughts.

However, I very much suspect it isn't going to be the great 'celebration' a lot of people think it is.

What's to celebrate, well as far as I'm concerned absolutely nothing as I'm a remainer, but even for leavers nothing's going to happen or change on the 31st.

We're just heading for a fairly long ongoing period of uncertainty while the government tries to get trade agreements in place and finds out where we go from here as a country, both internally and internationally, as even at this stage, no one really knows exactly how this is all going to pan out.

Yes, as NeckPainChairSearch, points out the fact that we're at the mercy of the likes of Johnson and Rees-Mogg doesn't bode well. And, I suspect, everyone but the rich in this country is going to be in for a pretty bumpy ride.

Has everyone remembered it was the Conservatives that signed us up to the Common Market in the first place?

NeckPainChairSearch
The blind eye that Brexiteers are willfully turning to how Brexit will make life so much harder for so many poor and vulnerable in our society disgusts me.

Does the fact that so many people turned a blind eye to how hard it was for the poor and vulnerable pre-brexit also disgust you?

I for one cant change how this is going to pan out so best to keep my mind off it.
I dont think it will be positive, but here we are.

I am quite happy about it because I think it will make our country more democratic. Did you know there are political parties that are actually banned by the EU?

It’s sad and stupid and I just hope it won’t work out badly, but fear it will.

Did you know there are political parties that are actually banned by the EU?

What makes you think that extremism will become legal after we leave the EU? If thats why you voted leave then you've been misinformed.

busybarbara
I am quite happy about it because I think it will make our country more democratic.

That is part of what I was hoping for, but the way that it has been handled doesn't give me much hope.

Does the fact that so many people turned a blind eye to how hard it was for the poor and vulnerable pre-brexit also disgust you?

Yes, obviously

NeckPainChairSearch

What about the question confuses you?

Boney I answered the question. The confused face, however, was why you'd directed that question at me at all.

But you did, I answered it, so I guess we're good.

Actually the economic predictions have changed, we are now forecast to be the fastest growing economy

So... The experts (economists) are ALWAYS wrong when it comes to forecasting that Brexit will cause problems, and ALWAYS right when it comes to forecasting that Brexit will make UK economy grow.

Gotcha.

NeckPain

It was in response to a point you made, but yeah we're good.

It makes me hugely sad. It is such a backwards move.

I'm particularly looking forward to smug brexiteers telling us for the 11 month transition period "look, we've left and it's all fiiiiiiiiiine" when of course nothing will have changed.

I've done some work with one of the civil service teams responsible for taking new trade deals forward and they are working really hard but very far behind where they need to be at this point.

The only positive is that maybe some houses will come on the market round here. The market has been completely stagnant while whether we are leaving or not has been uncertain. We have been trying to move but there has been nothing to buy!