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.'

@jimmyjammy001 there is a massive crisis in NHS staffing. That has already happened - thousands have left already and we are short of skilled NHS workers across the whole profession. You might think that’s worthy of mocking but I happen to think it’s pretty bloody serious and a real worry for those staff that remain and the intolerable pressures they now face.

I’ll get over it when I see some actual tangible benefits.

Yawn

Boris has already ordered budget cuts of at least 5% but as long we're serene about it...

corythatwas Yep. www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/tories-abandon-pledge-end-austerity-17656333

Still think we should get over it, OP?

@Lifeonmars77

Why is it that when remainers expect negative outcomes of Brexit, that's put down to the 'Remainer's crystal ball' syndrome?

But when a leaver says, 'get over it! It's fine! It's going to be great! We're going to get amazing trade deals' - somehow those are not predictions but certainties.

You want people be 'fine', they are not.

I understand the argument that as Brexit has now happened, people will be happier if they accept that. It's not for you to decide what will make others happier, but there is at least a logic to it. Why, though, have you thrown in the 'everything will be fine' when you have no idea whether it will be, and nothing you've said suggests you're qualified to have an opinion that anyone would pay attention to? That just undermines your point.

For many of us, Brexit has come with a growth in xenophobic abuse, being told we are scroungers, blood-suckers, don't deserve to be here, have no right to speak our own language in a private conversation.

Many black people- even ones who have been here for generations and have no connection to the EU- are reporting a rise in racist abuse.

From my twitter feed, it seems quite clear that a lot of racists feel enabled and encouraged to step up their abuse. Universities (including mine) are reporting racist poster campaigns on campus. The Brexit party last night included blackface celebrants. Anti-semitism is becoming more visible, synagogues have been defaced (and before you come back with Jeremy Corby, can I point out that Corbyn is not and never has been a remainer)

Are you telling us that people should just be zen about increasing amounts of abuse? That as long people don't take it to heart it doesn't matter if a mother with a small toddler is screamed at on public transport for speaking her own language to the child and told triumphantly they will have to leave their home now? The onus is on her to accept it?

Brexit has not happened. Brexit is a long and painful drawn out process. It will take years if not decades until we have negotiated trade deals with each and every individual country we wish to trade with. Brexit is only just beginning.

I find it incredible that leavers don't seem to have any grasp of what Brexit actually means in practice. BJ kept banging on about 'delivering brexit' and it seems leavers understood this to mean it would be like delivering a baby, one final push and it's done.

In a crowded field, OP has a fighting chance in the Brexit Day Irony Awards.

I'd love to not be angry anymore, but the anger is not going away. Why would it?
Even now have not been shown a single tangible benefit of Brexit. Not one. So my home country and that of my kids, will be poorer in so many ways, but I'm supposed to be alright with that?
Nope, sorry.

True dimsum. The hard part starts now! While we're still in the WA, we won't see the full impact either.

Although the part about not being able to change it is right: even our negotiating teams and leaders aren't going to have a great deal of say in some of the deals. Ordinary citizens certainly won't.

And it's not "done". It's barely even started. Where will we be this time next year once the transition is over?
I'm really looking forward to a year of Brexiteers saying "see nothing bad has happened, nothing has imploded etc" because they still believe that it's just "leave means leave" which is important and screw the trade deals, employment rights etc.

Leavers spent 25 years to overturn the first vote. Why do you think it's over?

I voted Remain and am gutted we're out. HUGE mistake IMO. But what's pissing me off the most is Leavers crowing about it and then shouting "GET OVER IT". A little compassion would be nice. How about "I know you didn't want this but we are sure it will be ok"??

I voted Remain and I'm just apathetic to the whole thing now. We're not completely out yet as we've still got the transition period.

I'm mainly worried about translation work drying up, there being no or little demand for us anymore, and having to start doing sex work on the side again. I'm a bit nervous about it. An American client on a kink forum I frequent told me Brexit was a good thing and that I should be happy. I don't know what to be happy about.

The only people going "get over it, it'll be fine", in my experience, are the ones who voted for it and are now cross because people are ruining it by being upset.

My parents are like this - they want their cake (Brexit) and to eat it too (me to stop being upset about it). You can only have one of these - perhaps you should get over it?

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?

@Lifeonmars77 if I told you that they were removing the right of women to vote in the UK and that it had been decided and was happening so you should just get on with it, would you? Genuine question?

I don't agree with it so I won't be accepting it and "getting on with it". I will be trying to change it.

It's happening yes that is a reality. However, there is still the trade deal to do, which is being led by the worst Prime Minister in history, a man with no grasp of detail (ask Nazarin Zagari-Ratcliffe about the impact of that), negotiated by the second rudest man in Britain (Michael Gove) and with a self-imposed deadline.

It's now about damage limitation. It is not most of us who will suffer, but those on the lowest incomes, or in insecure jobs.

People are cautious about uncertainty. It isn't rocket science, it's human nature.

You can do whatever you like OP. The rest of the population can too.

you're no rosa parks, are you op.

i can imagine you, when the nazis invaded poland, looking around going 'well its done now, lets get on with our lives'

I dont call people on here nasty names

But i went back on here this morning and im amazed at the amount of people name calling while complaining about other people name calling

If you are going to quote the serenity prayer OP maybe you should be modelling the ‘do unto others what you would have them do to you’ quote

OP, we are ‘getting on with our lives’. That doesn’t mean we should now pretend to support something to which we are opposed. Phrases like ‘get over it’ are just banal cliche, designed to make people feel uncomfortable about expressing their views. But the dissension and argument will continue, and rightly so.