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

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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.

Shortage of babies now - at least Boris is doing his bit for the country there.

www.theguardian.com/money/2021/sep/20/british-baby-shortage-could-lead-to-economic-decline-says-thinktank

@User45829057

You could just buy a soda stream thing and make your own fizzy water

What do you think is in the capsule in the soda stream to make the drink fizzy? 🤦‍♀️

I haven't seen anything besides this thread linking food shortages to Brexit. Everyone is saying it's because of a lack of lorry drivers

Honestly reading this thread and seeing how people are still providing anecdotes about the stock situation in their local shops / talking about the "majority" of people voting for Brexit highlights how mathematically or analytically ignorant the majority of people are.

A collection of anecdotes does not equate to data. Yes the situation may be fine for you but that doesn't mean it isn't a national problem. The percentage of votes is a proportion of those who actually voted, not the population as a whole.

You can't provide facts, figures, and predictive studies to people like this because they simply do not understand. They are all about their own emotional state and their own personal experience.

It's depressing as fuck. We are never going to progress as a country if people won't educate themselves or at least trust the educated.

@caravanman actually it's not true that the majority of the people voted for brexit. 72% of the electorate turned out to vote and just over half of those voted leave, so more like 37% of eligible adults.

The same with the 2019 election, the Tories got 46% of the popular vote. Definitely more than any other party but the majority did not vote Tory.

What do you think is in the capsule in the soda stream to make the drink fizzy?

There are plenty on Amazon to buy

I was in the 28% that didn't vote, iirc I was ill that day

@Snog

Surely brexit is a dead issue as we can't rejoin the EU anytime soon.

Why wallow in what is done OP? Despising your countrymen is a bad way to live.

We could rejoin the single market. Labour shortages, NI border issue, supply issues over export bureaucracy would go away overnight.

IMv paying delivery drivers shit wages (min wage) and careworkers shit wages (min wage) and getting away wiht it because immigrants will be happy with that due to exchange rates and crapper pay where they come from is not something I am proud to know.
Perhaps all you anti Brexit are happy to have a life funded by people on the breadline but I'm not. If they'd paid decent drivers' wages we wouldn't be in this position. Ditto the carers.

Oh dear OP, if your life is terribly affected by the fact you can’t get tonic, fizzy water and salmon then I think you should consider yourself a fortunate person indeed.

@seaandsandcastles

Despise me all you want It’s the best outcome for our country and you’ll see that eventually.

If that’s to be at all convincing, you need to be rather more specific than ‘eventually’. I mean, you couldn’t say that unless you know what the process is that will lead to the conclusion you foresee. So you must have some idea how long it will take.

Give us a date, to within a couple of years.

A perfect storm of crises as we push on into winter worth reminding ourselves as to what Cumming's who had a ringside seat early on. Churchill my arse more like Albert Steptoe.

On Boris Johnson and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn as 2019 election options: “There are thousands of people in this country who could provide better leadership than either of those two.”

Also on Johnson: “The prime minister already is about 1,000 times far too obsessed with the media in a way that undermined him doing his own job.”

And another on the prime minister’s indecision: “It doesn’t matter if you’ve got great people doing communications if the PM changes his mind ten times a day and then calls up the media and contradicts his own policy day after day after day. You’re going to have a communications disaster-zone.”

And another in a similar vein: “Nobody could find a way around the problem of the prime minister [who was] just like a shopping trolley smashing from one side of the aisle to the other.”

@Spiindoctor

IMv paying delivery drivers shit wages (min wage) and careworkers shit wages (min wage) and getting away wiht it because immigrants will be happy with that due to exchange rates and crapper pay where they come from is not something I am proud to know. Perhaps all you anti Brexit are happy to have a life funded by people on the breadline but I'm not. If they'd paid decent drivers' wages we wouldn't be in this position. Ditto the carers.

I don't think voting Tory is a good way to get people off the breadline.

So you don't vote Tory but support low wages??

@Snog

Surely brexit is a dead issue as we can't rejoin the EU anytime soon.

Why wallow in what is done OP? Despising your countrymen is a bad way to live.

But there is so much to despise about our fellow countrymen (or indeed woman). So much, that I sometimes (often) think there should be an assessment of competence before people are given the vote.

Last weekend I had to wait 25 minutes for an Uber and one that came first did a drive-by and cancelled as he didn't want to take the fare. Apparently, there is a shortage of drivers in London now.

I’m afraid we are struck with Boris Johnson until he wants to go.

The Tories would easily win an election now and that won’t change as they have the perfect reason Covid

And Labour are too rubbish to vote for.
And Both them and Lib Dems show no support for women.

For those pointing out that the CO2 shortage has contributed, the two plants impacted were only closed last week. So the knock on impact of that to what’s on our shelves has not been felt yet. Companies who need it will just be running out of supply now, so stock impact in shops is a week (or more, depending on the goods) away.

@User45829057

What do you think is in the capsule in the soda stream to make the drink fizzy?

There are plenty on Amazon to buy

Impossible to tell what's a snide or not on Amazon these days. It's gone right to the dogs.

I’ve been annoyed with Brexit since the vote came in. This was all foreseeable. It’s irritating that some don’t seem to do their research and vote responsibly.

“It’s good for the country. Everything’s better.”

“But there are shortages, and what’s available is more expensive. Why is that better?”

“Yes.”

“What?”

“It’s better. Yes.”

“Shortages and raised prices are better?”

“Yes, better. You’re welcome.”

“In what sense is that better?”

“Better! Much better! Thank you, you’re welcome.”

“Er…”

“Bangers and mash! You’re welcome!”

Wow, this thread filled up quickly. If nothing else, I hope Brexiters can see that the passions are high and that they will long be held accountable for what they have done.

It won’t be long before nobody admits to it, so I suppose there is an admiration deserved towards having such courage in your quixotic ambitions. But Quixote is only loveable because he is harmless.

Agree. Sadly.