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To despise those that voted for Brexit when I’m doing my weekly shop

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checkedcloth · 19/09/2021 13:05

So little stock on the shelves. Makes the weekly shop a complete nightmare as you just cannot meal plan anymore.

I didn’t vote for this absolute shit storm.

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rainyskylight · 19/09/2021 21:20

This thread is despicable and has brought out the worst in the remainers and leavers. Why anyone bothers to engage in this mud slinging contest online is beyond me.

Pumperthepumper · 19/09/2021 21:20

@Theoldprospector

That we can’t expect to maintain such a standard when that is not available to the rest of the world and cannot be sustained.

That we can’t expect to be supplied by the EU at a level that isn’t even enjoyed by many of their own citizens.

And that we shouldn’t expect, either in or out of the EU to have a level of security that both the EU and our own government have demonstrated they cannot provide.

Parts of the EU couldn’t even access medical care after the economic crisis. The U.K. and EU both had failures during COVID.

I don’t think anyone would say the EU was perfect.

But absolutely none of those examples get better with us no longer being part of it. None of them.

spudjulia · 19/09/2021 21:20

@mustlovegin

I work in a supermarket over night and I can assure you there's enough bloody food & availability

Don't let reality get in the way of a good moan

So why does my online shop have about 20% 'product not available' every week then? Can't they be arsed to sell it?
vera99 · 19/09/2021 21:22

Bread and circuses sound good but bring back Imperial measure for empty shelves and fucking flags. Pile of doggy doo.

Theoldprospector · 19/09/2021 21:24

‘But absolutely none of those examples get better with us no longer being part of it. None of them.’

In what way? How would Greece, Italy and Portugal have better health care in a future crisis with Britain in the EU when we failed to secure their healthcare last time?

Poetrypatty · 19/09/2021 21:25

This thread is despicable and has brought out the worst in the remainers and leavers. Why anyone bothers to engage in this mud slinging contest online is beyond me.

I think it's the tip of the iceberg in how angry a lot of remain voters feel. It's like we're no longer a part of the country that we live in, and we have lost the rights to live in the other countries we used to have as Europeans. It's surely only a matter of time before it spills out beyond fairly tame online discussion . Peoples cost of living shooting up and shortages of fresh food are not issues which can or will be ignored for long.

spudjulia · 19/09/2021 21:25

@rainyskylight

This thread is despicable and has brought out the worst in the remainers and leavers. Why anyone bothers to engage in this mud slinging contest online is beyond me.
It's like raaaaiaaaaaaiiiin on your wedding day.
Kendodd · 19/09/2021 21:27

We were always allowed to weigh in lb and Oz but needed metric alongside

As an aside, I wish we would completely adopt the metric system, it makes much more sense and brings us in line with the vast majority the rest of the world.

vera99 · 19/09/2021 21:29

Chrismas is coming

Clavinova · 19/09/2021 21:31

PersephoneJames
What has that got to do with me, Brexit or whether there is food in supermarkets Clav?

You replied to this post (another poster);
There are recent food price rises in Spain caused by the hike in electricity prices there.

There was also a link to a twitter feed on Brexit and energy prices.

Embroidery · 19/09/2021 21:31

If we were still in the EU we wouldn't have had the vaccine rollout.
Supermarkets are full to brimming.

Get over it remoaners.

BentBastard · 19/09/2021 21:32

@FatAnkles

I voted for Brexit.

Yes there are shortages but where I live it's not so bad that we can't cobble a meal together.

Despise me all you wish Smile

"Vote leave: it won't be so bad you can't cobble a meal together"

Pumperthepumper · 19/09/2021 21:32

@Theoldprospector

‘But absolutely none of those examples get better with us no longer being part of it. None of them.’

In what way? How would Greece, Italy and Portugal have better health care in a future crisis with Britain in the EU when we failed to secure their healthcare last time?

I think there was more to that than Britain’s membership of the EU. Do you think they’re better off without us? Is that the benefit?
Poetrypatty · 19/09/2021 21:34

If we were still in the EU we wouldn't have had the vaccine rollout.

Yes because nobody in the EU has had the vaccine. Oh wait...
And our case numbers are far far worse, overall and currently.

IvorHughJarrs · 19/09/2021 21:38

@Theoldprospector

I am in the North and haven’t noticed any shortages.

I don’t know how far any changes are to do with Brexit, but surely the point of Brexit is to create long term independence, self sufficiency and stability. We we were never going to get that within the first couple of years. We aren’t going to know the real outcome of it for about twenty years.

I haven't noticed any shortages where I am either. There is an occasional gap on the shelves but nothing major

I don't blame those who voted for Brexit, people are entitled to vote how they choose whether I agree or not, but despise those Remainers that refused to accept the result, repeatedly tried to overturn democracy and constantly undermined any attempt Theresa May and her government made to negotiate, leaving us with a far harder Brexit than we could have had

MarshaBradyo · 19/09/2021 21:39

@Poetrypatty

This thread is despicable and has brought out the worst in the remainers and leavers. Why anyone bothers to engage in this mud slinging contest online is beyond me.

I think it's the tip of the iceberg in how angry a lot of remain voters feel. It's like we're no longer a part of the country that we live in, and we have lost the rights to live in the other countries we used to have as Europeans. It's surely only a matter of time before it spills out beyond fairly tame online discussion . Peoples cost of living shooting up and shortages of fresh food are not issues which can or will be ignored for long.

I know people are angry but how much is due to co2 issue rather than Brexit? And is it cost of containers for latter or something else driving it
theDudesmummy · 19/09/2021 21:39

What? Here we are 90% vaccinated. In an EU country. Do you really believe the crap you are spouting?

lllllllllll · 19/09/2021 21:39

So why does my online shop have about 20% 'product not available' every week then?

Where do you do your online shopping? I do a weekly shop with Ocado and am always able to get everything I need, bar the occasional substitution (but that was the case pre-Brexit too).

Also, surely Covid-19 is a massive factor in the supply chain issues?

Cosmos123 · 19/09/2021 21:39

Definitely more and more empty shelves and a general feeling of gloom.
Prices on basics seem to be up and there are less offers like 3 for 2 etc. More like 3 for 4 nowadays.

Theoldprospector · 19/09/2021 21:40

‘I think there was more to that than Britain’s membership of the EU. Do you think they’re better off without us? Is that the benefit?’

I would hope we would all agree there is more to European social, economic and political events than Brexit and what the U.K. does or does not do.

I don’t know whether or not those countries will be better without Britain. I certainly think the EU prioritises some states over others and that was unethical, that it’s proposed trade deals were not something I would want to be subject to, and that I had concerns over its long term hostile relationship with Russia.

But I don’t know what the best course of action is or was, nor did I see much discussion of the issues at any point. It was just a lot of accusations of base motives on the part of whoever people disagreed with and a strange kind of tribal politics.

And maybe that is the real reason we can’t have the EU, because it puts the level at which decisions are made so far beyond the level of understanding of the general public that we can no longer make decisions in a democratic way.

Or maybe we all just clump in tribes because of the internet.

Embroidery · 19/09/2021 21:41

twitter.com/bbcthree/status/1049318995697041408?s=19

You can still go to France. There are still jobs. There are more jobs. The world hasn't imploded like you forecast. Please stop wailing that the end is nigh.

And crucially, we havent left europe. Ffs. Europe is a continent. We are still in EUROPE!

We left an overpriced, unbureacratic, corrupt club that charged us billions in subs which we in the most part, never saw again.

theDudesmummy · 19/09/2021 21:41

That was to @Embroidery

Quaggars · 19/09/2021 21:42

I didn't vote for this shit storm either.
Despising people who voted differently to you is ridiculous and unhealthy though - we had a vote and unfortunately we lost.
Holding onto all that negative shite will just eat at you.
That's why I love being in the UK - we get the chance to choose for ourselves outcomes, it's called a democracy.
Even if I don't always love the results!

cardibach · 19/09/2021 21:46

Brexit isn't going to be reversed, so we can either rage against it, keep hating everyone and make it worse, or we can try and make it the best of it
What on Earth difference will what I do make to anything, @Notthemessiah? I can’t make it better or worse and suggesting that I can is ridiculous.

MaryBellingham11432 · 19/09/2021 21:47

Bold: If we were still in the EU we wouldn't have had the vaccine rollout.

Matt Hancock was wrong to say that the UK could approve the vaccine early because it was no longer subject to EU rules. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency’s decision was taken in accordance with the relevant EU legislation, which allows member states to grant temporary authorisation for a medicinal product in response to the spread of infectious diseases. This legislation still applied to the UK until the end of the transition period. Any EU member state could have used the same provision of the legislation to approve the vaccine. They decided not to for political and technical reasons, not legal ones. Similarly, the member states were in no way obliged to take part in the EU’s joint vaccine procurement scheme. The EU has very limited competences for public health under its founding treaties: it can take action only to “support, coordinate or supplement the actions of the Member States”. The EU member states in this case voluntarily decided to opt into the joint procurement scheme. If one or more of them had decided to follow the UK’s path and procure its own vaccines, no one would have stopped them.