To think that Brexit is happening. Just get over it. We will be fine.

[Lifeonmars77]

It is done, what will be will be... what is the point in getting stressed over it now?

'Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.'

Ok lost me five positives and I'll at least feel I can make a start on accepting it and moving on
Anyone?????

Sunshinegirl82
We have no control over what happens now, the politicians do.

We have never had any control over what politicians do. It a shame that people can't or won't see this.

Get involved then?

Get to fuck with your patronizing shite.
I'm a UK national in the EU. I won't be fine until I get my citizenship in this country which should be soon.
Brexit means I am now a third country national. So I have a right to be stressed.

We won't be able to extend next December. If we want to extend transition we have to request it by July and Johnson said he won't.

We haven't seen anything yet in terms of the consequences of leaving.

Surely now it's time to do preparation rather than sit back saying oh it will all be fine?

Bussiness owners/other groups need to be lobbying so their interest in trade agreements are taken into account and making the changes they need to for when the transition period ends.

We'll be keeping an eye out for any potential inpacts of our family- so we can deal with them and migitage any we can.

I would have though sitting back no would be worse thing to do - shouting really loud so MP and Government actually consider impact on different sectors/people would probably be in everyones long term interests. Otherwise with so much being affected things could quite easily be missed or not understood till to late.

Ian MacEwan in today's Guardian.
As for the outer extremes, the occasional milkshake aside, we never violently assaulted a Brexiter in the street; we only rarely inclined to sending anonymous death and rape threats such as came so abundantly the way of Gina Miller, Anna Soubry and many female MPs. However, the antisemitic emails from within the Labour party were a disgrace. So too was the bullying mob jeering outside the Rees-Mogg home. But we remainers did not slyly exhort our compatriots to riot in the event of a second referendum going against us. Nearly two-thirds of the electorate did not vote to leave; most of business and the trade unions, agriculture, science, finance and the arts were against the Brexit project; three-quarters of MPs voted to remain. But our representatives ignored the evident public interest and shrank behind party cabals and “the people have spoken” – that bleak Soviet locution – followed by “get Brexit done”, the mind-clouding magic dust which has blinded reason and diminished our children’s prospects.

OP, if you've hit rock bottom, then you probably won't be fine, people at rock bottom will suffer most. But like others have said, you reap what you sow. You can wave your optimistic flag from bottom of the ditch.

I'm a proud remoaner and an even prouder dual citizen of the U.K. & an EU country. I know I will be fine, both financially and otherwise.

Well I'll be OK because I can move abroad. You may or may not be fine. If you have to visit A&E and want to be treated by a doctor you may not be in a few years but no doubt you won't listen to the "experts" telling you why.

There has been a direct negative impact on my family although too specific to post online. The uncertainty however is the worst - we need to plan for 2021 but this is not possible because decisions hang on information which would normally be easily available but which is now all subject to review because of Brexit uncertainty.

Brexit is utter stupidity and the result of a series of ridiculous bits of political brinkmanship along the lines of the domino effect that led to WW1, but on a personal level the uncertainty and delays are almost worst than the actual car crash which is happening in such incredibly slow motion...

www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/01/johnson-to-impose-full-customs-checks-on-goods-from-eu-report

I don't think we're going to be fine at all.

Faridge set such a good example of being OK with being in the EU. Perhaps we should follow his lead.

OP doesn't care if we're ok or not and neither does Boris or creepy Cummings. They just want everyone to shut up and take it.

I don't want it to fail. It's not in anyone's interests to fail.

Did I miss the bit where you explained exactly why and how everything will be fiiiine?

So no one can tell me any tangible benefits to Brexit? Anyone?

Whether you wanted this, or whether you didn't... it is happening. Can we not just at least try and just get on with our lives without the pain of what should or shouldn't have happened?

But the increased racism and xenophobia IS ALREADY HAPPENING. Universities are being targeted by racist and xenophobic poster campaigns. At my local coffee shop, one of the most obvious results of the referendum was customers coming in and refusing to be served by foreign staff. I know people who are getting death threats. But yeah, let's just get on with our lives and forget how much nicer it would be if these things were not happening.

No if course not, the "benefits" are all bluster and empty soundbites.

The main point in my mind though is that it still hasn't actually happened, the pin has been pulled out on the world's most delayed action grenade.

corythatwas did you witnesses that

For full disclosure I live in Germany and am not seeing Brexit first hand - it's just a shorthand joke I get mildly teased about by colleagues, but it's had a negative impact on our family's medium term plans and I'm worried about my UK pension (duel citizen, taught in the UK state school system for 12 years paying my taxes, state and teacher pension contributions).

I believe some people will lose their jobs.

These people will not be fine.

@corythatwas Exactly! We know it can't be financially beneficial - at least for another 30 years or so because of the billions we have already spent. We know it can't be good for society because of the rise in hate crime directly related to Brexit. I don't get while Brexiteers say "we don't know what Brexit will bring" because we do. And it's shit.

Ok lost me five positives and I'll at least feel I can make a start on accepting it and moving on
Anyone?????

@hobnobsaremyfave

Oh, easy

1. Sovereignty
2. All that extra money for the NHS
3. Fewer forriners (European ones)
4. Sovereignty
5. Sovereignty

BlueWonder
Get involved then?

If that is aimed at me.

I already am.

OP, the Bank of England has issued its most negative economic forecast since the end of WW2.

I know they’re experts, so people like you don’t want to listen to them. But really, you can’t say with any confidence that the country will be fine. You really can’t. We might be. I sincerely hope we will be. I desperately want to be proven wrong about Brexit. But none of the experts think we will be fine.

If you mean the coffee shop incidents, my daughter who worked in a local coffee shop had to take over at the till when customers refused to be served by her Lithuanian workmate. (Ironically, dd is half Swedish, but they can't tell). I have seen images of posters put up at other institutions, and my own sent round a message stating that security staff were going round every morning taking them down.