Happy brexit day

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Thank god we are only a few hours away from being a free and independent and a global outlooking country! Happy VEU day everyone!!
Let's all join together, enjoy and celebrate our victory over antidemocracy and enjoy our new found and hard fought freedom!!

I will be getting my Bible out 🙏

Did the flag actually burn though? Because EU safety standards would protect against this. The pictures just seemed to show it smouldering slightly then in a folded heap as though their great statement had failed I'd love to know what has made that person hate the EU so much as to try to burn its flag. What negatives did they suffer personally?

I have a bottle of Prosecco ready to go. I’m about to open it so I’m pissed and in no state to notice when we get to 11 pm. I’m depressed enough without listening to the fireworks which will be let off nearby.

BercowsFlyingFlamingo they apparently eventually got it to smoulder a bit.

It was the second clip of people stomping on a flag and bellowing that freaked me out.

Unforgivable, but they'll all be dead soon enough, and we can return to EU

The narrative is that anyone being concerned about flag burning is somewhat racist or nationalistic , this being yet another example of 180 on political discussion will go down in history.

Imagine pretending you are on the side of the critical thinking and still bring up this tired meme

Is it being a tired meme meaning it didn't happen now then

What this situation has proven without doubt, is that the 'thick' easily led types is apparent on both sides of the situation.

How has that been proven without doubt?

I've spent a lot of time trying to understand the rationale behind wanting Brexit. I think it boils down to three issues.

1. People didn't like giving money to lesser member states and wanted to keep it in the UK. It's the same people who resent foreign aid and believe charity begins at home. It doesn't matter that the economic benefits to the UK were greater than the sum of money we paid in. Their ideology is that it's UK money and it belongs in the UK. Full stop. No ifs and buts.

1. People felt that some of the EU laws we had to abide by did not have the UK's self interest at heart and instead benefited other member states more. They can't tell you what these are, and just object to the principle. Compromise of any kind is not an option. It's the UK's way or the highway. I think this is what they think they mean by sovereignty.

1. People did not like it when new countries joined the EU and these people could now come to live and work in the UK. They don't see the doctors surgeries and hospitals clogged up with old people. They only see the forriners. And they don't care that the UK didn't veto these new countries joining, or chose to implement any control over EU immigration. They just see the Polish aisle in Tesco and it pisses them off.

Leave.EU sussed this and ran a cracking campaign. They targeted those who live on principle, the kind who would cut their noses off to spite their faces. The type who would not be told what to do by the president of the golf club and would rather flounce and find another shittier golf club, but refuses to pay his fees and would argue till the end of days even though the T&Cs state he has to.

And then there are those who've actually forgotten why they wanted it. It's just that they won. And they never win anything. They're on their arses. And they damn well want their prize. Whatever the fuck it is and whether they will actually use it or not. That's why they're so obsessed with winning and losing. They're on top of the world. They won! Hurrah!

We have now lost our voice on the world stage Erm, permanent seat on the UN Security Council, one of the leading members of NATO, in the G7...what have we lost precisely?

Can you imagine the furore if Remainers had set fire to a Union Jack?

The type who would not be told what to do by the president of the golf club and would rather flounce and find another shittier golf club, but refuses to pay his fees and would argue till the end of days even though the T&Cs state he has to.

I think you're spot on BonnesVacances

There's also a category of people who did a protest vote in 2016 to stick it to Dave Cameron. I remember this at the time. They did not think leave would actually win. Some of those may have switched allegiance subsequently, but I also think some have since done the cognitive dissonance thing - I voted for it so it must be a good idea.

BonnesVacances

Best comment on this thread!! Possibly best comment of the internet today!

s it being a tired meme meaning it didn't happen now then confused

You even bringing it up shows you lack the critical thinking skills.

How has that been proven without doubt?

you have proven it withe the comment you made.

justanotherlurker you seem to be saying I lack critical thinking skills for bringing up that there was a promise on the side of a bus to give money to the NHS. This did actually happen. Are you trying to say that bus/that promise did not exist?

You're also saying that by mentioning that promise lie this I have proven beyond doubt that remainers are thick and easily led. I disagree.

Why is it lacking in critical thinking skills to point out that the promise was made on the side of a bus?

Do you mean this bus?
www.google.com/amp/s/au.news.yahoo.com/amphtml/boris-johnson-warned-face-private-prosecution-350m-brexit-bus-claim-124534175.html

We will no longer be dictated to by unelected and unaccountable beaurocrats

What do you think the UK civil service are??

And you wonder why people think leavers are thick...

Lol that they couldn’t burn the flag because of EU safety standards making the fabric flame retardant. Talk about a symbolic last laugh. You couldn’t make it up.

Whatever happened to the Arcuri investigation? Now that Brexit is done, we should get on with this.

BonnesVacances - a stunning summary - wish I had written that!

I'm not usually so rude to people online, but I'm very angry about Brexit, not just for how it affects me personally, but for the damage it's going to do to the UK and its future generations.

If there was some kind of good reason for Brexit, it'd be less galling, but the vast majority of those who voted to leave seem to have done so on the basis of total ignorance.

As a famous guy once said, "Forgive them, for they know not what they do."

We will no longer be dictated to by unelected and unaccountable beaurocrats

UK Head of State - unelected, there by the accident of her birth

Number 10 - Policy run by Dominic Cummings - unelected
House of Lords - 800 unelected bureaucrats, many there by accident of their birth, some because they failed to get re-elected but Johnson just put them in there anyway so that they can still be govt ministers (Zac Goldsmith)
Civil Service - (parallel in EU is Council of Europe) - stuffed full of unelected bureaucrats.

Some people are reading too much Daily Fail, Torygraph and Spun newspapers and listening to too much FrogFaceFarage. Come out with the same old tropes and don't realise how fake they sound.

@LordBuckley Let go of the anger, it's done......time to roll with it 👍

It may be done for you - I've just lost my right to vote anywhere in the world.

I'm actually feeling sick at the thought of it. Thankfully I am in Scotland and pretty certain no one near me will be celebrating

That utter wanker Dominic Cummings is surely far more of an unelected bureaucrat than any of the MEPs.